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{{short description|Indian engineer}}
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'''Prof. Geetam Tiwari''' is currently the TRIPP Chair Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi|Indian Institute of Technology]] in [[New Delhi]], India.

She teaches [[transportation planning]], [[Traffic engineering (transportation)|traffic engineering]], and [[transport economics]] and finance, transport safety, and non-motorised transportation to undergraduate and graduate students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://civil.iitd.ac.in/faculty.html |accessdate=11 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122162927/http://civil.iitd.ac.in/faculty.html |archivedate=22 January 2013 |title=Civil Engineering Department }}</ref><ref name="tripp">{{cite web|url=http://tripp.iitd.ernet.in|title=Transport research and injury prevention programme|publisher=tripp.iitd.ernet.in|accessdate=2014-10-03}}</ref><ref name="iitd">{{cite web|url=http://te.iitd.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=110|title=Faculty|publisher=te.iitd.ac.in|accessdate=2014-10-03}}</ref>
==Education and biography==
Tiwari finished her Bachelor of Architecture from the then University of Roorkee, Roorkee (currently [[Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee]]) in 1980 and worked for a year as Assistant Architect at the Uttar Pradesh State Construction Corporation, in [[Lucknow]]. She later attended the School of Urban Planning and Policy, [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], where she earned a Masters in Transport Planning and Policy and later a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis (Transport Planning). After serving as visiting faculty in the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, and as a consultant, she joined [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi|IIT Delhi]] in 1990 as a Senior Scientific Officer in the Applied Systems Research Programme, which would later be named the [Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chalmers.se/en/areas-of-advance/aoa_backup/transport/Pages/Dolda%20sidor/Geetam_Tiwari-.aspx |accessdate=11 April 2013 |title=Selected research areas }}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name="indiaenvironmentportal">{{cite web|url=http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/organisation/geetam-tiwari|title=Geetam Tiwari - India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia|publisher=indiaenvironmentportal.org.in|accessdate=2014-10-03}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="bmwguggenheimlab">{{cite web|url=http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/what-is-the-lab/people/advisory-committee/geetam-tiwari|title=Geetam Tiwari | BMW Guggenheim Lab|publisher=bmwguggenheimlab.org|accessdate=2014-10-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GCr7zh8OfboC&q=%22Geetam+Tiwari%22&pg=PR19 | title = Urban transport development | isbn = 9783540277613 | last1 = Jönson | first1 = Gunilla | last2 = Tengstrèom | first2 = Emin | year = 2005| publisher = Springer }}</ref>

==Professional career==
Tiwari was appointed an honorary doctor by [[Chalmers University of Technology|Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden]] in 2012, for her research on transport. She and her research group have contributed to knowledge on urban traffic patterns of various vehicles, public health effects in the urban environment, and the relationship between the municipal infrastructure and traffic safety. Their research led to the introduction of [[Bus rapid transit|Bus Rapid Transit]] Systems in Delhi and guidelines for the design of highways and streets in urban environments. These have resulted in improved accessibility and traffic safety, as well as fewer [[Greenhouse gas emissions|emissions of greenhouse gases]] and less pollution in general.<ref name="chalmers">{{cite web|url=http://www.chalmers.se/en/news/Pages/Honorary-Doctors-at-Chalmers-2012.aspx|title=Chalmers' honorary doctors 2012|publisher=chalmers.se|accessdate=2014-10-03}}</ref>
In addition to her teaching and research, Tiwari is one of the directors of Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans)<ref name="itrans">{{cite web|url=http://www.itrans.co.in/people.html|title=People :: iTrans|publisher=itrans.co.in|accessdate=2014-10-03|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006154150/http://www.itrans.co.in/people.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and is a member of working groups on Urban Transport for the twelfth [[Five-Year Plans of India|Five-Year Plan of India]]<ref name="planningcommission">{{cite web|url=http://planningcommission.nic.in/aboutus/committee/wrkgrp12/hud/wg_%20urban%20Transport.pdf|date=20 September 2011|title=Recommendations of Working Group on Urban Transport for 12th Five Year Plan|author=|accessdate=2014-10-03}}</ref> and the [[National Transport Development Policy Committee (India)|National Transport Development Policy Committee]] (NTDPC).<ref name="transportpolicy">{{cite web|url=http://transportpolicy.gov.in/NTDPCWEB/Home/Report%20of%20Working%20Group%20on%20Urban%20Transport_Submitted%20to%20the%20Govt%20on%20July%204th,%202012.pdf|date=30 March 2012|title=NTDPC on Urban Transport - Final Report|author=Anvita|accessdate=2014-10-03|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006124451/http://transportpolicy.gov.in/NTDPCWEB/Home/Report%20of%20Working%20Group%20on%20Urban%20Transport_Submitted%20to%20the%20Govt%20on%20July%204th%2C%202012.pdf|archivedate=6 October 2014}}</ref>

Tiwari has written, edited, and contributed to various books in the field of urban transportation systems, road safety, and injury prevention. These include ''The Way Forward: Transportation Planning And Road Safety'', ''Injury Prevention and Control'' ''Urban transport for growing cities: high capacity bus system'',<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Urban transport for growing cities: high capacity bus system|author=Tiwari, G.|date=2002|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780333937846|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bpLtAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2014-10-03}}</ref> and ''Road Traffic Injury Prevention: Training Manual''. Tiwari has authored and co-authored numerous international peer-reviewed journal articles.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Fazio|first1=Joseph|last2=Tiwari|first2=Geetam|title=Nonmotorized - Motorized Traffic Accidents and Conflicts on Delhi Streets|journal=Transportation Research Record|date=1995|volume=1487|pages=68–74|url=http://pubsindex.trb.org/view/1995/C/451893|accessdate=23 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Tiwari|first1=Geetam|last2=Mohan|first2=Dinesh|last3=Fazio|first3=Joseph|title=Conflict Analysis For Prediction of Fatal Crash Locations in Mixed Traffic Streams|journal=Accident Analysis and Prevention|date=March 1998|volume=30|issue=2|pages=207–215|doi=10.1016/S0001-4575(97)00082-1|pmid=9450124|citeseerx=10.1.1.134.5457}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Fazio|first1=Joseph|last2=Hoque|first2=Md. Mazharul|last3=Tiwari|first3=Geetam|title=Fatalities of Heterogeneous Street Traffic|journal=Transportation Research Record|date=1999|volume=1695|pages=55–60|doi=10.3141/1695-10|s2cid=110847790}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Tiwari|first1=Geetam|last2=Fazio|first2=Joseph|last3=Gaurav|first3=Sushant|title=Traffic Planning For Non-Homogeneous Traffic|journal=Sādhanā|date=August 2007|volume=32|issue=4|pages=309–328|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/sadhana/Pdf2007Aug/309.PDF|accessdate=23 August 2015|doi=10.1007/s12046-007-0027-5|citeseerx=10.1.1.571.1226|s2cid=109322941}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Tiwari|first1=Geetam|last2=Fazio|first2=Joseph|last3=Gaurav|first3=Sushant|last4=Chatteerjee|first4=Niladri|title=Continuity Equation Validation For Nonhomogeneous Traffic|journal=Journal of Transportation Engineering|date=March 2008|volume=134|issue=3|pages=118–127|doi=10.1061/(asce)0733-947x(2008)134:3(118)}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gupta|first1=Udit|last2=Tiwari|first2=Geetam|last3=Chatterjee|first3=Niladri|last4=Fazio|first4=Joseph|title=Case Study of Pedestrian Risk Behavior and Survival Analysis|journal=Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies |date=2010|volume=8|pages=2095–2111|url=http://www.easts.info/publications/journal_proceedings/journal2010/100387.pdf|accessdate=23 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Tiwari|first1=Geetam|last2=Khatoon|first2=Mariya|last3=Singh|first3=Niharika|last4=Choudhary|first4=Prateek|last5=Fazio|first5=Joseph|title=Modification of a Highway Capacity Manual Model for Evaluation of Capacity and Level of Service at a Signalized Intersection in India|journal=Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies|date=2011|volume=9|pages=1558–1571|doi=10.11175/easts.9.1558}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gandhi|first1=Sandeep|last2=Tiwari|first2=Geetam|last3=Fazio|first3=Joseph|title=Comparative Evaluation of Alternate Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) Planning, Operation and Design Options|journal=Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies|date=2013|volume=10|pages=1292–1310|doi=10.11175/easts.10.1292}}</ref>

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