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  1. Best Research Paper Award (1st Prize) for the paper titled "Exploring the Hedonic Dimension of Mental Well-Being in Commute Experiences: Insights from the Satisfaction with Travel Scale in the Indian Context" presented in the Research Symposium on Urban Transport as part of the 17th Urban Mobility India(UMI) Conference & Expo 2024 held from 25-27 October 2024 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
  2. Best paper award (3rd prize) for the paper titled "Identification of VRU Fatality Hotspots in Traffic Analysis Zones using Point Kernel Density Estimation Method" presented in the Research Symposium on Urban Transport as part of the 17th Urban Mobility India(UMI) Conference & Expo 2024 held from 25-27 October 2024 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
  3. Appointed as Editorial Board Member of "Journal of Transport and Sustainability" (2024 onwards).
  4. Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Verma, Convenor (IST Lab) elected as Vice President, Governing Council of IUT(Institute of Urban Transport India) for a period of 2 years w.e.f. 01.09.2024 to 31.08.2026 duly approved by the Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Govt. of India.
  5. Prof. Ashish Verma invited to deliver Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture on "Understanding and Harnessing linkages between Sustainable Transport and Livability for Building "Brand Bengaluru" on 26th  August 2024 at The Centre for Public Policy (CPP), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). 
  6. Appointed as Editorial Board Member of "Journal of the Air Transport Research Society", Elsevier. (2024 onwards)
  7. Best Paper Award to Aitichya Chandra, Sayan Hazra, Ashish Verma & K. P. Sooraj for the paper titled "On the Possibilities of Efficient Air Traffic Monitoring through Complex Network Clustering Based Airspace Sub-Sectorization: A Multi-Objective Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Approach" at 7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2023) held during 17th to 20th Dec. 2023 at Surat, India. 
  8. Best Poster Award to Hemanthini Allirani & Ashish Verma for the paper titled "Evaluation of Change in Perception Before and After Pedestrianization of an Urban Street", at 7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2023) held during 17th to 20th Dec. 2023 at Surat, India.
  9. Appointed as Editorial Board Member of "Research in Transportation Business & Management", Elsevier. (2023 onwards).
  10. Founding Editor-in-Chief (EiC), "Sustainable Transport and Livability", published by Taylor & Francis (T&F). Journal website - https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tstl20 
  11. "Best Research Paper Award (2nd Prize) for the paper titled "Modeling the natural “pause-and-go” walking behaviour of pedestrians in bidirectional flow" presented in the Research Symposium on Urban Transport as a part of the 16tUrban Mobility India Conference and Expo-2023 (UMI-RS 2023) from 27- 29th October 2023 at New Delhi, India.
  12. IST Lab, together with Behaven and RIM, is among top 75 ideas to promote sustainable behaviours in India, in a global challenge by NITi Aayog.
  13. Delivered Prof.T Anantharajan Memorial Endowment Lecture on “Sustainable Transport” organised by Alumni Association college of Engineering, Guindy (AACEG) & Division of Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University, Chennai - 600025 on Monday, 12th December 2022 at 03:00pm at Seminar Hall Alumni Centre CEG, Anna University, Chennai-600025.
  14. "Best Research Paper Award (1st Prize)" for the paper titled "What drives the adoption of EVs in India? An Investigation of reasons" presented in the Research Symposium on Urban Transport as part of the 15th Urban Mobility India(UMI) Conference & Expo 2022 Held from 4-6 November 2022 at Kochi, Kerala.
  15. "Best Research Paper Award (2nd Prize)" for the paper titled "Choice modelling based policy evaluation for gender inclusive mobility" presented in the Research Symposium on Urban Transport as part of the 15th Urban Mobility India(UMI) Conference & Expo 2022 Held from 4-6 November 2022 at Kochi, Kerala.
  16. Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Verma, Convenor (IST Lab.) got elected as "Hony. Secretary" of Institute of Urban Transport (India).
  17. IST Lab's "Clean Air Street - Church Street First Project" awarded the "Certificate of Special Recognition” as part of "Volvo India Innovation Award 2021" held at Hotel Taj West End, Bengaluru on 10th November 2021.
  18. The collaborative project with Directorate of Urban Land Transport, Energy Systems Catapult, Urban Morph etc. on "Clean Air Street - Church Street First" has been conferred the “Commendation Award in Urban Transport”  under the category “Running trophy for the State/UT, which has Implemented Best Urban Transport Projects during the previous year" by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India.
  19. "Best Research Paper Award (1st Prize)" for the paper titled "Impact Assessment of Pedestrianizing an Urban Street in Terms of Quality of Life" in the 12th Research Symposium of Urban transport held online on 25th October 2021 as a part of 14th Urban Mobility Conference 2021 organized by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India and Institute of Urban Transport (IUT), India and coordinated by IST Lab.
  20. Best Research Presentation Gold Award in “ The 7th International Conference on Integrated Land Use Transport Modeling” -ILUTM-7”, at City of Xi’An, China, organized online on 18-19, June 2021 for the presentation titled:“REVIEW OF INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATED LAND USE TRANSPORT PLANNING IN BENGALURU”.
  21. Best Research Presentation Silver Award in “The 6th International Conference on Integrated Land Use Transport Modeling -ILUTM-6”, at Wuhan University of Technology, China, organized online on 13th Dec. 2020, for the presentation titled "URBAN FORM/LAND USE AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT-CASE STUDIES FROM INDIA".
  22. Guest Editor, “Virtual Special Issue (VSI): Transport Policy in Post COVID-19 World”, Transport Policy, Elsevier, 2021, https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/transport-policy/special-issue/104FXCVKKMJ
  23. Guest Editor “Special Issue (SI): WCTR-2016”, Transport Policy, Elsevier, July 2020, doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.07.015
  24. Awarded Tata Trust Fellowship to visit Queensland University of Technology (QUT) during 11th Nov. 2019 to 11th Dec. 2019.
  25. Best Paper Award for the paper titled: “ Sustainability Analysis of the Proposed Elevated Road Corridors in Bengaluru City- A Comparative Analysis with Metro Rail System”. Presented at International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects- Conception to Execution, January 2019 Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
  26. Associate Editor, The Journal of Modern Mobility Systems, Mason Publishing Group.
  27. Elected Fellow of Institution of Engineers, India. (July 2018 onwards)
  28. Editor (Special Issues), Transport Policy, Elsevier. (1st Jan. 2015onwards)
  29. Associate Editor, “Urban Rail Transit” Journal (new), Springer Publications
  30. Founding and Immediate Past President, Transportation Research Group of India (TRG).
  31. Nominated Chair of the Technical Committee of TRG (TCT-D01) on “Travel Behaviour and Transport Demand”.
  32. Nominated for the following positions in the World Conference of Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based in University of Leeds,U.K.:-
    • Member, Scientific & Steering Committee of WCTRS.
    • Country & Area Representative (CAR) of WCTRS
  33. Chair, Special Interest Group (SIG) H2 on “Infrastructure Operation and Traffic Management in Developing Countries”,WCTRS.
  34. Guest Editor for the Special Issue on “Case Studies of Sustainable Transport in India”, Case Studies in Transport Policy, Elsevier, 2015,3(3).
  35. Delivered World Habitat Day Theme Lecture on “Trends of Urban Mobility in India and its Implications on Sustainability”, organized by Institution of Engineers (India), Dharwad Chapter, India on 7th October 2013.
  36. Delivered Prof SVC Aiya Memorial and World Telecom. & Information Society Day Lecture on “ITS for Improving Road Safety in India”, organized by Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Bangalore Chapter, India on 17th May2013.
  37. Guest Editor for the Special Issue on “Economics of Sustainable Transport in India”, Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier Publication. February 2013, Vol.38,No.1.
  38. Editorial Board Member of Journal of Civil Engineering and Science (JCES), The World Academic Publishing Co., Limited, Hong Kong. (2012-13).
  39. Guest Editor for the Special Issue on “Sustainable Transportation System for Cities of Developing Countries: Challenges and Issues”, Current Science, Current Science Association & Indian Academy of Sciences. May 2011. Vol. 100, No.9.
  40. Received Fellowship under “CONNECT” Follow-up program from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) to visit TU-Hamburg and UNFCCC, Bonn in Germany. (15th June to 7th July2010).
  41. Guest Editor for the Special Issue on “Challenges in Transportation Planning for Asian Cities”, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Vol.136, Issue-1, March2010.
  42. Editorial Board Member of Journal of Urban Planning and Development, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). (Since March2007).
  43. Guest Faculty for Postgraduate Masters Programme in "International Cooperation and Urban Development"(www.urban-studies.de), PAR/TU Darmstadt,Germany.
  44. Received DAAD fellowship to visit Technical University Darmstadt (TU-Darmstadt), Germany during June-July2007.
  45. Received WCTRS fellowship to attend 11th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), at Univ. of California Berkeley, during 24-28th June2007.