Experts & Staff

Over the last ten years, Madhav Pai, a civil engineer from Mumbai, has participated in several complex and innovative transport projects as a researcher, consultant and trainer.

He is the director of the EMBARQ India program. He has supported city authorities in Indore to develop various components of their city bus and bus rapid transit (BRT) systems. He has been involved in reviews, evaluations and studies of city bus and BRT systems in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Colombo, Delhi, Jaipur, Naya Raipur, Pune and Surat. He has helped secure and manage grants for capacity-building activities from The World Bank and the British High Commission. He has published many academic papers since joining EMBARQ.

Prior to joining EMBARQ he was Regional Director at Citilabs, a transport planning software company, and headed operations in South Asia and Southeast Asia. He supported all activities in the region, including program development and technical support. He has delivered training courses on transport modeling in India, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and the United States. In the San Francisco Bay Area, he spent four year working at Dowling Associates Inc. managing and executing several transport planning, transport modeling and traffic engineering projects. As a researcher at the Institute of Transport Studies of the University of California, Berkeley, he was involved in assessing the short- and medium-term impacts of City Car Share on travel behavior in the City of San Francisco. In the summer of 2006, he participated in the early conceptualization and design of an open source multi-disciplinary MIS/GIS platform and design of the Bangalore Traffic Information System (BTIS), www.btis.in, at Mapunity, a social development startup in Bangalore.

He holds a master’s degree in transport planning from University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Mumbai.