Sagar Kolapkar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune, with over twelve years of combined experience in academia and government practice. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Pune (2010) and an M.Tech in Transportation Systems Engineering from IIT Guwahati (2013), and is currently pursuing his PhD in Transportation Systems Engineering at MIT-WPU.
His research centres on urban transportation systems — parking demand modelling and supply regulation for Tier-I Indian cities, sustainable pavement materials including warm mix asphalt and pervious concrete, and public transit ridership behaviour. His work has appeared in ASCE's Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction and Elsevier's Materials Today: Proceedings, where he also serves on the review boards.
Before joining MIT-WPU, he served as Planning and Implementation Manager with the Pune Municipal Corporation, contributing to the Smart City Pune Parking Policy. He is a Government Certified Road Safety Auditor (MoRT&H/IRC), holds two patent filings in traffic control and plastic-waste construction materials, and has authored Advanced Transportation Engineering (Nirali Publications).