SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE, DELHI(SPA, Delhi)
School of Planning and Architecture (SPA)Delhi, is an institute of national importance by an act of Parliament, one of its only kind, which exclusively provides training at various levels, in different aspects of human habitat and environment. It has ten post graduate department of studies and two undergraduate departments. The School has taken lead in introducing academic programmes in specialized fields both at Bachelor's and Master's level in the country, some of which are even today not available elsewhere in India.
The Department of Transport Planning is one of the oldest post graduate departments at SPA Delhi offering two year Masters degree course in Transport Planning. Logistics and Urban Freight has been one of the core courses offered in Department of Transport Planning since 1980’s and is probably one of its kind not offered anywhere in the country. A lot of emphasis is laid on empirically driven project studies in design studios and research activities as part of thesis programmes. Particular emphasis is stressed on development of analytical tools and modelling techniques besides use of transport planning software by the students and research scholars. The Department have freight demand modelling software besides other standard transport planning software and expert faculty members
SPA Delhi has also been globally recognised as an Associate Research Centre of the Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (CoE-SUFS) since Jan. 2018. A Centre for Urban Freight Studies (CUFS) has been set up within Transport Planning Department coordinated by Prof. Dr. Sanjay Gupta which keeps undertaking in –house research as well as building repository of knowledge in urban freight.
The research on freight logistics in SPA Delhi is led by Prof. Dr. Sanjay Gupta of Transport Planning Department with nearly 35 years of experience. Prof. Gupta has been offering a course on Logistics and Urban Freight as part of Masters degree programme for past 31 years In addition he has been supervising studio projects as well Masters thesis and Ph.D.'s in the field of freight logistics.
SPA Delhi has the requisite expertise in
- field of data collection
- demand modelling
- software application
- plan formulation
- capacity building related aspects in field of urban freight and logistics
- Tool kit on Freight Transport Planning and Management, sponsored by Institute of Urban Transport, India, Ministry of Urban Development, GOI (Client : Institute of Urban Transport (India), 2015
- Land use and Transportation Plan for Integrated Freight Complex at Narela, Delhi (Client: Delhi Development Authority, Delhi), 1996
- Traffic Projection and Land Area Requirements for Inland Container Depot at Patparganj in East Delhi (Client: Central Warehousing Corporation, India), 1995
- Concept Plan for Integrated Freight Complex-cum-Wholesale Market at Gazipur, Delhi (Client: Delhi Development Authority, Delhi), 1993
- Potential of Piggyback as a freight transportation system (1989)
- Role of IWT in freight movement in the state of Kerala. (1994)
- Environmental impact assessment of an integrated freight complex at Gazipur, Delhi(1995)
- Freight transport logistics of Vardhaman mills, Ludhiana. (2000)
- Logistics of freight distribution in Gapps industries, Gurgaon. (2001)
- Impact of dedicated rail freight corridor on current freight logistics system. (2007)
- Impact of e-commerce on shopping behaviour in Delhi (2007)
- Impact of Special Economic Zone on transport network , Haryana (2008)
- Agro retail logistics & its impact in urban areas: case study Delhi. (2008)
- Value of time in freight movement. (2009)
- Impact of dedicated freight corridor on regional economy of Haryana (2009)
- Impact of multi modal logistics hub on freight movement in Haryana (2009)
- Role of non-motorized transport in urban freight operations. (2013)
- Study of warehouse location in urban areas, and its impact on freight logistics, Case study: Timber markets in Delhi.(2013)
- Freight generation and movement characteristics in city of Hyderabad. (2014)
- Impact of Logistic Sprawl on Freight Movement in Metropolitan City: Delhi, (2014)
- Impact of logistics sprawl on freight distribution pattern (2015)
- Sustainable Urban Freight Distribution for Metropolitan City , Kochi (2015)
- Potential of Freight Distribution through Urban Rail System, Delhi, (2016)
- Potential of freight transport through Inland water transport (2016)
- Impact of Urban Structure on Freight Movement Pattern : Case city of Noida, Uttar Pradesh. (2017)
- Benchmarking Urban Freight Transport Performance for an Emerging Metropolitan City :Case of Amritsar City (2018)
- Sustainable strategies for managing freight traffic in a metropolitan environment : case study of Kanpur city, India (2018)
- Potential of city logistics in urban freight distribution – Case study Pune (2019)
- Panning for container logistics facilities in urban Areas – Case study Indore (2019)
- Transport Strategies for efficient distribution of FMCG products – Case study Udaipur (2019)
- Decarbonisation strategies for urban goods movement – Case study Kotla, Delhi (2020)
- Planning for Storage and Distribution Facilities in E-commerce- Case Study, South-Delhi (2020)
- Planning for a multimodal logistics facility with rail connectivity. Case study: MMLP, Visakhapatnam (2020)
- Sustainable Goods distribution strategies for urban areas
- Low carbon pathways for urban freight ( in progress)
- City Logistics based Stakeholder Engagement based Decision Making in City Logistics ( in progress)
- Journals/books – 12
- International conference proceedings- 9
- National conference proceedings -
1. Concept Plan for Integrated Freight Complex-cum-Wholesale Market at Gazipur, Delhi (Client: Delhi Development Authority, Delhi) ,1993
2. Land use and Transportation Plan for Integrated Freight Complex at Narela, Delhi (Client: Delhi Development Authority, Delhi), 1996
Name: Prof. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Dean Research and Professor of Transport Planning
E-Mail ID- s.gupta@spa.ac.in
