Madhav Pai is Technical Director of CST-India. Over the last ten years he has participated in several complex and innovative transport projects as a researcher, consultant and trainer. He has been working at EMBARQ’s India office since February 2008. His work has focused on providing technical assistance to cities of Indore and Pune to develop components of its BRT and city bus systems. He has studied and published the progress of BRT projects, urban transport and air quality trends for Indian cities.

Prior to joining EMBARQ he was Regional Director at Citilabs, a transport planning software company, where he headed their operations in South and South East 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 U.S.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, he spent four years working at Dowling Associates Inc. managing and executing several transport planning, transport modeling and traffic engineering projects. He also spent two years as a researcher at the Institute of Transport Studies at University of California, Berkeley, where 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 the design of the Bangalore Traffic Information System (BTIS), www.btis.in at Mapunity, a social development start-up in Bangalore.

Mr. Pai holds a master’s degree in transportation planning from University of California Berkeley.