Rate My Professor Ranjit Godavarthy

Ranjit Godavarthy is an associate professor of transportation and logistics in the Department of Finance, Supply Chain, and Transportation in the College of Business at North Dakota State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Transportation Engineering from Kansas State University in 2012, an M.S. in Transportation Engineering from Kansas State University, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Nagarjuna University, India. His research interests include public transportation in small urban and rural areas, demand response transit and paratransit research, bike share research, roundabouts research, traffic engineering and operations, transportation and highway safety, shared-use mobility opportunities in rural communities, mobility on demand, community livability, multimodal transit research, travel behavior, traffic operations, transportation planning, and rural transportation issues.

Godavarthy has authored or co-authored more than 25 journal articles and research reports, with publications in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Record, and Journal of Public Transportation. Notable works include "Exploring Transit’s Contribution to Livability in Rural Communities: Case Studies of the North Dakota Cities of Valley City and Dickinson" (2018, Journal of Public Transportation). He has delivered more than 35 presentations at international, national, and regional conferences and is active in National Cooperative Highway Research Program activities. Joining the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute's Small Urban and Rural Center on Mobility in 2012, he was promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Transportation, Logistics, and Finance. Godavarthy serves as Challey Senior Faculty Fellow for 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 at the Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth and as a member of the NDSU Faculty Research Council representing the College of Business until May 2026. He received the Wootan Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers in 2013 for his dissertation "Network and design concepts for accommodating large trucks at roundabouts." He teaches transportation and supply chain management courses at undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D. levels.