Mandar Khanal

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Mandar Khanal, Ph.D., P.E.

Professor

ERB 3135

Call: (208) 426-1430

mkhanal@boisestate.edu

About Mandar Khanal

Bio

Mandar Khanal earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Irvine, and his MS degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is a registered civil engineer in California and Idaho. Dr. Khanal has many years of professional engineering experience. His last professional employment was with the California Department of Transportation in Orange County, California.

Dr. Khanal manages the Civil Engineering Department’s Transportation Engineering program. He has developed and taught various transportation engineering and planning courses. He has also led multiple research projects sponsored by various agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. He has disseminated the findings of his research via journal publications, conference proceedings, and presentations at different forums. His areas of research are roadway design, traffic operations and management, urban transport systems, transportation planning, and traffic modeling.

Publications

Khanal M. and Hasan M. (2021) “Assessment of the Highway Safety Manual’s Empirical Bayes Method.” The Technology Interface International Journal, Spring/Summer 2021 Issue (Accepted for Publication – www.tiij.org).
Khanal M. (2021) “Estimating Demand for a New Travel Mode in Boise, Idaho.” Sustainability 2021, 13(3), 1209; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031209 .
Khanal M. Hasan M., Sterbentz N., Johnson R., and Weatherly J. (2020) “Accuracy Comparison of Aerial Lidar, Mobile-Terrestrial Lidar, and UAV Photogrammetric Capture Data Elevations over Different Terrain Types.” Infrastructures 2020, 5(8), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures5080065.
Khanal M. (2016) Proactive-Adaptive Ramp Metering Scheme for Urban Highways. Journal of Civil & Environmental Engineering 6:e120. doi: 10.4172/2165-784X.1000e120.
Bhaskar C.S. Chittoori, Khanal M., and Harelson D. (2015) “Safety Evaluations for Skewed Intersections on Low Volume Roads – A Case Study.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2472, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., pp. 236-241. DOI: 10.3141/2472-26.
Khanal M. (2014) The Stochastic Capacity of a Roadway: Is it the Answer for Better “Real-Time” Management of Freeway Operations? Journal of Civil & Environmental Engineering 4:e115. doi: 10.4172/2165-784X.S3-001.
Khanal M. and Sarkar P. (2014) Road Safety in Developing Countries. Journal of Civil & Environmental Engineering S3:001. doi:10.4172/2165-784X.S2-001
Portugais Brian and Khanal M. (2014).”Adaptive Traffic Speed Estimation”. Procedia Computer Science, 32356-363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.05.435.
Khanal M and Davidson R. (2013). “Field Procedure for Estimating the Measurement Area of Non-Contact Temperature Sensors”. International Journal of Modern Engineering, 14(1), 81-87.
Jaksa W., Sridhar V., Huntington J., and Khanal M. (2013). “Evaluation of the Complementary Relationship Using Noah Land Surface Model and North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) Data to Estimate Evapotranspiration in Semiarid Ecosystems”. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14(1), 345-359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-11-067.1.
Sarkar P., Maitri V., Ram S., Khanal M., and Imran M. (2013). “Personalized Rapid Transit Systems – An Approach Towards Solving Urban Transport Problems, A Case Study in Gurgaon City, Haryana”. Highway Research Journal, 6(1), 43-58.

Research

Principle Investigator (PI): Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) grants:
o FAST Act UTC Educational Grant for 2017-2023. Status: ongoing.
o Field Evaluation of V2I Connected Vehicle Deployment in Ada County, Idaho – Validating Communication Architecture and Control Technology Readiness. Status: completed.
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI): “Design, Evaluation, and Performance Monitoring of
Rehabilitated Pavement”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation
Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Recommendations for a Risk-Based Approach to Quality Assurance of Reinforcing Steel”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Alternative Cross-Section Development for I-15 Rehabilitation from Sand Road to IC-89”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.
Co-PI: “Developing a toolkit for applying Intelligent Transportation Systems to Traffic
Management in Indian Cities”. Project awarded to the School of Planning and Architecture,
New Delhi, by the Institute of Urban Transportation, Ministry of Urban Development,
Government of India. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Defining and Quantifying Rural Congestion”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Remote Road Surface State & Temperature Sensor Testing Project”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Synthesis of Research on Work Zone Delays and Simplified Application of Quickzone Analysis Tool”. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Development of a Software Tool for Illumination Design”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Evaluation of the Ada County Highway District FY1999 ITS Deployment Project”. Subcontract No.: KLK475-01-A, The National Institute for Advanced Transportation, University of Idaho. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Freeway Incident, Phase II”. The National Institute for Advanced Transportation, University of Idaho. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Development of a Roadway Name Table for the ITD, MACS System”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Freeway Incident Detection and Arterial Systems Management for the I-84 Corridor”. The National Institute for Advanced Transportation, University of Idaho. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Evaluating the Use of GPS Technology to Update the Idaho Transportation Department GIS”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.
Principle Investigator (PI): “Evaluation of Potential Earthwork Savings in Road Design Using ROADZ”. A cooperative research project between The Idaho Transportation Department and Boise State University. Status: completed.

Mandar Khanal

Mandar Khanal, Ph.D., P.E.

Professor

About Mandar Khanal

Civil Engineering