JISHA AKKARA

Jisha Akkara

Assistant Professor

"Moulding the next generation of civil engineers for successful careers by advancing through research, teaching, and service"

 

Degree Specilisation  Institution/University Year 
Ph.D (Pursuing) Transporttaion Engineering APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala 2019
M.Tech Traffic and Transportation Planning National Institute Of Technolgy,Calicut  2008
B.Tech  Civil Engineering University Of Calicut 2005
From To Organisation Designation
2013 Till the date Jyothi Engineering colllege Assistant Professor
2009 2010 Jyothi Engineering colllege Lecturer
2005 2006 Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra Site supervisor

 

Areas of Specialization

Traffic and Transportation Planning

Areas of Interest

Transportation Plannning,Town Planning,Highway Pavement Design,Traffic Engineering,

Sno. Achievement Year
1

 

Co-ordinator of “Research Conclave-2018” organised for Post gradutae studnets in Palakkad cluster of APJ Abdul Kalam Technoogical Unvesity  on April 19th, 2018.

Co –investigator of KSCSTE funded Project “Driver Centric Safety Evaluation of Two Lane Rural Highway” (2016-2018)

 

2018
2

Co-ordinator of three  day online STTP on State of art Practices on Transportation Engineering during  10-12, June 2020

2020
3

Coordinator commiitte member of   International Conference On Energy And Environment organised by Jyothi Engineering College during April 9-10,2021.

2021

1. "Effect of Non-urban  Two  Lane Highway Geometry  on  Car and Bus Drivers  –  A  Physiological  Study" presented the paper in the virtual  event  at  the  24th  Euro  Working Group  on  Transportation Meeting  (EWGT2021), organized  by the  University of  Aveiro  from  8th  to  10th  of September  2021 and published in Transportation Research Procedia

2. "Effect of Geometry on Driver Heart Rate" published in World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2019,Mumbai 26-31 May 2019, Elsevier, Transportation research proceedia

3. Effect of Two Lane Non-Urban Highway Geometry on Workload Profile of Drivers", ICCESP 2021Conference on 05–06 March 2021 organised by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, and Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, India and published in Proceedings of International Web Conference in Civil Engineering for a Sustainable Planet, Series, AIJR Proceedings, Online ISSN 2582-3922

4. "Potential of Driver Physiological Measures for Assessing Non-Urban Highway Geometry", ICCESP 2021Conference on 05–06 March 2021 organised by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, and Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, India and published in Proceedings of International Web Conference in Civil Engineering for a Sustainable Planet, Series, AIJR Proceedings, Online ISSN 2582-3922

5. "Effect of road geometry on Driver Eye Blink Rate” Two days National Conference & Seminar (NCIET 2020) on “Innovations in Engineering & Technology” organized by Government Polytechnic College, Palakkad Sponsored by the Department of Technical Education, Kerala 

6. "Workload Based Consistency Evaluation of Two Lane Rural Highways", National Conference on resilient infrastructure 2020 proceedings

7. "Effect of rural highway geometry on driver workload – a step towards safety”, International Conference on Civil Engineering Advancements For Sustainable Infrastructure Development And Environment (CEASIDE 2018) conducted on the aegis of 5th biennial International conference on Emerging Trends In Engineering, Science and Technology at Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur from January 18 to 20, 2018.
 
8. “Development of Consistency Evaluation Criteria for Indian Two-Lane Rural Highways”,  4th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India jointly organized by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai from 17th to 20th December 2017.

9. “Design consistency evaluation for two-lane rural roads: a case study from Kerala" in "4th Conference on Transporation Systems Engineering and Management" held on 12th-13th May 2017, Organised by Division of Transportation Engineering, Anna University, Chennai.

10. “Crash Prediction Modeling Of Rural Highway Curves Using Consistency Index” in "4th Conference on Transporation Systems Engineering and Management" held on 12th-13th May 2017, Organised by Division of Transportation Engineering, Anna University, Chennai.

11. “Operating Speed Model Development For Two-Lane Rural Highways” in National Conference On Recent Advances In Civil Engineering And Technology (REACT-2017) held on May 24-26 2017, organized by Vidya Academy of Science & Technology (VAST) , Thrissur.

12. “Effect Of Consistency On Safety Of Non-Urban Highway” in National Conference On Recent Advances In Civil Engineering And Technology (REACT-2017) held on May 24-26 2017, organized by Vidya Academy of Science & Technology (VAST), Thrissur.

 

 

"Research publication and ethics intended for research scholars in collaboration with IEEE" organised by Jyothi Engineerng College and sponsored by APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University from 23rd Januaryto 28th Januay 2023.

“Recycling Materials in Highway Construction", AICTE Sponsored One Week Online Short Term Training Program (STTP) from 23rd August 2021 to 28th August 2021 organised by Indo Global College of Engineering, Abhipur, New Chandigarh.

"Prospects of Sustainability in Pavement Construction in India" at  Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (July 14-18, 2020)

"Safety Measures in Transportation Systems" at Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science (May 27-29, 2020)

"Patent Drafting and Processing with Importance of Trademark and Copyright" by Journal of Advanced Engineering Research (May6-7,2020)

“Innovative approach for effective implementation of student project and its documentation" at JECC, Thrissur (January 17-21,2019)

 Multivariate data analysis at GEC, Thrissur (December 17-21, 2018)

Pursuing excellence in Engineering Education (July 9-11, 2018 )

 A practical approach to Urban Transportation Planning using CUBE software(May 20-26, 2018)

"Recent innovations in Transportation engineering" at GEC Thrissur (October 5-9,2015)

4th conference of Transportation  Research Group at IIT Bombay (December 17-20,2017)

"Primavera & STAAD PRO.V8i" at JECC (January 10-12,2017)

"Essential mathematics on engineering" at VAST (29th November to 3rd December 2016)

 

 

 

 

 

Sno. Projects Guided Year
1

Study on effect of horizontal Curve geometry on bus driver Workload

2022
2

Study on driver stress variation on combined curves

2021
3

Heart Rate And Galvanic SkinResponse Variation Of Drivers On Two Lane Non-Urban Combined Curves

2021
4

Driver Workload Modelling Of Horizontal Curves On A Two-Lane Rural Highway Using Artificial Neural Network

Evaluation Of Driver Workload on Combined Curves On Two-Lane Highways

 

2020
5

Driver Workload Based ConsistencyEvaluation on two-lane rural highway

Delay modeling and road traffic induced pollution analysis at rail-road crossings

Performance evaluation of Kerala state road transport corporation

Hotspot Analysis using ArcGIS

Fuzzy logic based route choice behaviour modelling

Modeling of intercity mode choice behaviour of passengers

Study of on-street and off-street parking choice behaviour

2019
6

Development of accident prediction models for two lane rural highways

2018
7

Influence Of Geometric Design Characteristics On Safety Under Heterogeneous Traffic Flow

2018
8

Driver workload modeling on horizontal curves

2018
9

Two lane highway consistency based on alignment indices

2018
10

Pavement distress analysis and prioritization of maintenance works

2018
11

Evaluation and improvement of four legged intersections -a case study in Thrissur city

2018
12

Operating speed based horizontal alignment consistency evaluation for two lane rural highways.

2017
13

Performance improvement of unsignalised intersection by proposing roundabout and fly over in the six legged West Fort junction,Thrissur(2015-16)

 

 

2016