Kumares C. Sinha

He has served as Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University.

[3] He was a faculty member at Marquette University for six years before joining the school of civil engineering at Purdue in 1974.

One of his chief contributions is the development of an integrated approach to highway-asset-management based on facility condition modeling, treatment effectiveness and life-cycle costing.

[7][8] Sinha's studies on system performance, costing, and network optimization have informed pavement, bridge and safety management systems developed by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)[9][10] and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

[11][12] He has also served as a consultant for the World Bank and the United Nations Environmental Program, conducting transportation systems analysis and planning in countries such as Bangladesh, China, Georgia, India, Iran, Nepal, Palestine and Yemen, among others.

[19] He is the co-author (with Samuel Labi) of Transportation Decision Making: Principles of Project Development and Programming (Wiley & Sons, 2007).

Doherty, M.J., Sparrow, F. T. and Sinha, K. C. (1987), Public (Shared) Use of Autos: Mobility Enterprise Project, ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol.

Feighan, K.J., Shahin, M. Y., Sinha, K. C. and White, T. D. (1989), Application of Dynamic Programming and Other Mathematical Techniques to Pavement Management Systems, Transportation Research Record 1200, 90–98.

Li, Z. and Sinha, K. C. (2004), Methodology for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in Highway Asset Management, Transportation Research Record 1885, 79–87.

Ex Post Facto Evaluation of Indiana’s Highway Investment Program, Transportation Research Record 2345, 24–30.