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President
Atlantic Transportation Engineers, LLC
Tavares, FL, United States
Murthy V. A. Bondada, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Dr. Bondada has over 50 years of full-time urban transportation engineering and planning consulting experience in the US. He was an adjunct professor at Pennsylvania State, West Virginia, and Florida Metropolitan Universities in the USA. Before that, he taught for ten years at the Government College of Engineering (now Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University JNTU) at Anantapur in India in the 1960s. His over 50 years of consulting experience in the United States encompass Transportation Planning, Traffic Engineering, Public Transportation, and Advanced Transit Technologies.
Dr. Bondada was involved in developing comprehensive multi-modal long-range transportation plans for several cities in the US, including Detroit, Miami, Tampa, and Jacksonville, and updating them at 5-year intervals. He was involved in over 50 feasibility studies for Automated People Movers, Inter-city high speed and maglev systems, and major highway and transit improvements. He was involved in the three downtown people movers (Detroit, Miami, and Jacksonville) and several commuter rail and rapid rail systems presently operating in the US. He authored and/or co-authored over 100 project reports. He published about 50 technical papers. Since 2000, he has researched urban transportation in developing countries, including Indian Cities.
Dr. Bondada has been actively involved with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for over 50 years. He served as chair for four national committees: 1) Automated People Movers (APM) during 1981-85; 2) Urban Transportation Division during 1985-1989; 3) High-speed Ground Transportation Systems during 1989-1993; and 4) Public Transport during 1993-1999. He organized several international conferences for the ASCE and was editor or co-editor for six conference proceedings. Currently, Dr. Bondada is the Chair of the Rail and Public Transit Council of ASCE’s Transportation and Development Institute. The Council comprises four Technical Committees: Automated People Movers, Automated Transit Systems, Public Transport, and Rail Transport.
Dr. Bondada initiated the ASCE’s international conference series on automated people movers by organizing and chairing the first conference in 1985. Next Year, in 2026, ASCE is organizing the 20th conference of the series. The papers, published in conference proceedings of this conference series on APMs initiated by Dr. Bondada are the primary bibliography for the most valuable document, “Guidebook for Planning and Implementing Automated People Mover Systems at Airports” published in 2010 by the Transportation Research Board under Airport Cooperative Research Program, which the US Federal Aviation Administration sponsored. The ASCE awarded him the Frank Master Transportation Engineering Award for his innovative research, planning, and design of automated people movers.
Dr. Bondada has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, a master's degree in city planning, and master's and doctorate degrees in transportation engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Florida and a Life Fellow of ASCE and ITE. He received two Fulbright Grants in 2007 and 2021.
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