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Journal Publications

1.   Saha, P., and Thuy Nguyen (2020) “Priority-based Optimization Model for Developing CIP using PASER for City Roads: Case Study”, International Journal of Pavement Engineering. (in press)

2.    Saha, P. (2021) “A Methodology to Select Unpaved Roads for Chemical Treatments within Budget: A Case Study.” ASCE's Journal of Transportation Engineering Part B: Pavements. Volume 147 Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1061/JPEODX.0000242

3.    Saha, P. (2020) “An Optimization Model to Determine an Appropriate Budget for Improving Work Zone Safety.” IATSS Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iatssr.2020.06.004

4.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. (2020) “Effectiveness of the Two Chemical Treatments (CaCl2 and MgCl2) as Dust Suppressants on Gravel Roads.” International Journal of Pavement Engineering. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2020.1745799

5.       Saha, P., Greer, A. N., and Ksaibati, K. (2019) “A Numerical Model to Optimize the Selection of Unpaved Roads for Dust Suppressing Chemical Treatments: A Case Study.” Journal of Infrastructure Systems. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000523

6.       Saha, P., Greer, A. N., Yue, E., and Ksaibati, K. (2019) “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Research Centers for State DOTs.” Transport Policy. Volume 81, Pages 127-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.06.009

7.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. ( 2019) “Drivability Life of Pavement: A New Numeric in Pavement Management System.” International Journal of Pavement Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2019.1593412

8.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. (2018) “An Optimization Model to Determine Critical Budgets for Managing Pavement and Safety: A Case Study on State-wide County Roads.” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 145(2), https://doi.org/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000218

9.       Saha. P. and Ksaibati, K. (2018) “Optimizing Budgets for Managing Statewide County Paved Roads” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements, 144 (4). https://doi.org/10.1061/JPEODX.0000075

10.       Eadelat, W.A., Ksaibati, K., Wright, H.G.C., and Saha, P. (2018) “Evaluation of Pavement Roughness Using an Android-Based Smartphone.” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering: Part B, Pavements, 144(3), https://doi.org/10.1061/JPEODX.0000058

11.       Saha, P., Mashhadi, M.M.R., and Ksaibati, K. (2018) “Impact of Traffic Citations to Reduce Truck Crashes on Challenging Roadway Geometry” International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/17457300.2018.1476386

12.       Apronti, D., Saha, P., Moomen, M., and Ksaibati, K.  (2017) “Truck Safety Evaluation on Wyoming Mountain Passes” Accident Analysis & Prevention. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.10.019

13.   Saha, P., Ksaibati, K., and Atadero, R. (2017) “Developing Pavement Distress Deterioration Models for Pavement Management System using Markovian Probabilistic Process.” Advances in Civil Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8292056.

14.   Rezapour Mashhadi, M. M., Saha, P., & Ksaibati, K. (2017) “Impact of traffic Enforcement on Traffic Safety” International Journal of Police Science and Management. Doi: 10.1177%2F1461355717730836

15.   Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K., (2017), “Developing an Optimization Model to Manage Unpaved Roads,” Journal of Advanced Transportation, vol. 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/9474838

16.   Okok M.A., Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. (2017), “Developing Performance Models for Gravel Roads to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of using Dust Chemical Treatments.” International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 1-9.

17.   Eadelat, W.A., Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. (2016), “Development of Serviceability Prediction Model for Local County Paved Roads.” International Journal of Pavement Engineering: 1-8.

18.   Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K., (2016), “An Optimization Model for Improving Highway Safety.” Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition), 3(6), 549-558.

19.   Saha, P., and Ksaibati K. (2015) “A Risk-Based Optimization Methodology for Pavement Management System of County Roads”. International Journal of Pavement Engineering 17, no. 10: 913-923.

20.   Saha, P., R., Young, and Ahmed, M. (2015), “Safety Effectiveness of variable Speed Limit (VSL) Systems in Adverse Weather Conditions on Challenging Roadway Geometry.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2521: 45-53.

21.   Saha, P., Liu, R., Melson, C. and Boyles, S. D. (2014), “Network Model for Rural Roadway Tolling with Pavement Deterioration and Repair.” Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering 29, no. 5: 315-329



Refereed Conference Papers

1.       Saha, P. (2020) “An Optimization Methodology to Improve Work Zone Safety within a limited Budget in a Roadway Network.” 2020 International Conference on Transportation and Development, Seattle, Washington. https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784483145.018  

5.       Saha, P., Greer, N. and Ksaibati, K. (2018) “An Optimization Model to Select Unpaved Roads for Chemical Treatments as Dust Suppressants.”  Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting 2018, Washington, DC.

6.       Okok M.A., Saha. P., and Ksaibati, K. (2017) “Developing Performance Models for Gravel Roads to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of using Dust Chemical Treatments.” Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting 2017, Washington, DC.

7.       Ksaibati K., McDowell, T., and Saha, P.  (2017) “Risk-based Optimization Model to Determine Critical Budgets for Managing Pavement and Safety.” World Conference on Pavement and Asset Management, WCPAM2017, Milan, Italy.

8.       Saha, P., and Young, R. (2015) “Risk-Based Optimization Methodology for Managing County Paved Roads.”  Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting 2015, Washington, DC.

9.       Saha, P., and Young, R. (2014) “Weather-Based Safety Analysis for the Effectiveness of Rural Variable Speed Limit (VSL) Corridors.”  Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting 2014, Washington, DC.

10.   Saha, P., and Young, R. (2014) “Safety and Road Closure Benefits of Rural Interstate Variable Speed Limit System” Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of 21st ITS World Congress Detroit 2014.

11.   Saha, P., and Young, R. (2011) “Pricing Model for Rural Roadway Networks Incorporating Pavement Deterioration and Repair.”  Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting 2011, Washington, DC.

Technical Reports:

1.       Hafez, M., Saha, P., Aleadelat, P. W., and Ksaibati, K (2019). Developing an Optimization Model for Managing County Paved Roads., Mountain-Plains Consortium, Report MPC-19-397, November, 2019. https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/downloads/mpc19-397.pdf

2.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. “Conditions of County Paved Roads in Western Part of the State, Wyoming (2017).” by Wyoming Technology Transfer Center for Wyoming County Commissioner Association (WCCA) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), May 2018.

3.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. “Conditions of Paved Roads in Each of 13 Counties in Western Part of the State, Wyoming (2017).” by Wyoming Technology Transfer Center for Wyoming County Commissioner Association (WCCA) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), May 2018.

4.       Saha, P., Greer, A.N., Yue,E., and Ksaibati, K. “Evaluation of the WYDOT Research Center (Phase III)." by the Wyoming Technology Transfer Center and Wyoming Department of Transportation, March 2018. http://www.dot.state.wy.us/_les/live/sites/wydot/_les/shared/Planning/Research/RS04217RC Evaluation.pdf

5.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. “Conditions of County Paved Roads in Eastern Part of the State, Wyoming (2016).” by Wyoming Technology Transfer Center for Wyoming County Commissioner Association (WCCA) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), June 2017.

6.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. “Conditions of Paved Roads in Each of 10 Counties, Wyoming (2016).” by Wyoming Technology Transfer Center for Wyoming County Commissioner Association (WCCA) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) , June 2017.

7.       Mashhadi, M., Saha, P., Terrill, T. and Ksaibati, K. \Developing Mitigation Strategies to Reduce Truck Crash Rates on Wyoming Highways." by Wyoming Department of Transportation, June 2017.

8.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. “Conditions of County Paved Roads in Western Part of the State, Wyoming (2015).” by Wyoming Technology Transfer Center for Wyoming County Commissioner Association (WCCA) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), September 2016.

9.       Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. “Conditions of Paved Roads in Each of 10 Counties, Wyoming (2015).” by Wyoming Technology Transfer Center for Wyoming County Commissioner Association (WCCA) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) , September 2016.

10.   Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. “Statewide Conditions of County Paved Roads, Wyoming (2014).” by Wyoming Technology Transfer Center for Wyoming County Commissioner Association (WCCA) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), October 2015.

11.   Saha, P., and Ksaibati, K. “Conditions of Paved Roads in Each of 23 Counties, Wyoming.” By Wyoming Technology Transfer Center for Wyoming County Commissioner Association (WCCA) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), May 2015.

12.   Rhonda Y., Saha, P., Vijay S., and Yanfei S. “Rural Variable Speed Limits: Phase II.” With Wyoming Department of Transportation, May 2013. http://www.dot.state.wy.us/_les/live/sites/wydot/_les/shared/Planning/Research/RS04210.pdf

13.   Boyles D., and Saha, P. “An Optimization Model for Roadway Pricing on Rural Freeways.” By Mountain Plains Consortium, Report MPC-12-246, July 2009 - June 2010. http://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=720

Conference Presentations

1.       Saha, P. (2019) “An Optimization Model to Determine Critical Budgets for Improving Work Zone Safety.” ICMPA 2020 11th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets (23 August - 26 August 2020, Chicago, IL)

2.       Saha, P.,  McDowell, T., and Ksaibati, K. “An Optimization Model to Determine Critical Budgets for Managing Pavement and Safety”, accepted for presentation in the Transportation Asset Management conference, San Diego, CA, July 2018.

3.       Ksaibati, K., and Saha, P. “Developing Mitigation Strategies to Reduce Truck Crash Rates on Wyoming Highways”. Wyoming Transportation Safety Coalition Meeting, Casper, WY, June 2016.

4.       Chris Chamberlin, Saha, P., and K. Ksaibati. “Assessing the Effectiveness of Wyoming’s CMAQ Unpaved Road Dust Suppression Program”. TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2016. 

5.       Saha, P., and K. Ksaibati. “A Risk-Based Optimization Methodology for Managing County Paved Roads”. TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2015.  

6.       Saha, P., R., Young, and Ahmed, M. Safety Effectiveness of variable Speed Limit (VSL) Systems in Adverse Weather Conditions on Challenging Roadway Geometry. TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2015.  

7.       Saha, P., and R. Young. Weather-Based Safety Analysis for Effectiveness of Rural Variable Speed Limit Corridors. TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2014.  

8.       Saha. P., Using Empirical Bayes method to identify crash hot spots after implementing VSL system on a rural interstate corridor. 2013 Western ITE Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ., 2013.

9.       Saha, P., R. Liu, and S. Boyles. Pricing Model for Rural Roadway Networks Incorporating Pavement Deterioration and Repair. TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2011.  

10.   Saha, P., R. Liu, and S. Boyles. Roadway Pricing Strategies for Rural Freeways Accounting for Freeway Deterioration and Maintenance. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 2010.