Charitha Dias

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Charitha Dias is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Ocean Engineering and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Charitha Dias has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 36 papers in Ocean Engineering and 32 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Charitha Dias's work include Traffic and Road Safety (46 papers), Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (36 papers) and Traffic control and management (23 papers). Charitha Dias is often cited by papers focused on Traffic and Road Safety (46 papers), Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (36 papers) and Traffic control and management (23 papers). Charitha Dias collaborates with scholars based in Qatar, Japan and Pakistan. Charitha Dias's co-authors include Muhammad Abdullah, Deepti Muley, Md. Shahin, Majid Sarvi, Miho Asano, Nirajan Shiwakoti, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Nazam Ali, Muhammad Ashraf Javid and Martin Burd and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Access and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Charitha Dias

63 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on travel behavior and mode preferences

2020 521 citations Muhammad Abdullah, Charitha Dias et al. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charitha Dias Qatar	21	744	536	493	251	218	69	1.5k
Tiziana Campisi Italy	27	1.2k 1.6×	335 0.6×	123 0.2×	192 0.8×	219 1.0×	140	2.3k
Julián Arellana Colombia	26	1.5k 2.0×	432 0.8×	151 0.3×	61 0.2×	101 0.5×	83	2.2k
Deepti Muley Qatar	12	576 0.8×	344 0.6×	57 0.1×	88 0.4×	201 0.9×	42	1.0k
Ramin Shabanpour United States	18	940 1.3×	219 0.4×	89 0.2×	75 0.3×	117 0.5×	40	1.5k
Socrates Basbas Greece	22	1.2k 1.6×	291 0.5×	92 0.2×	71 0.3×	135 0.6×	152	1.8k
Dorine C. Duives Netherlands	18	890 1.2×	497 0.9×	873 1.8×	317 1.3×	15 0.1×	62	1.6k
Digvijay S. Pawar India	19	347 0.5×	502 0.9×	64 0.1×	264 1.1×	80 0.4×	58	934
Gopal R. Patil India	23	784 1.1×	382 0.7×	90 0.2×	399 1.6×	19 0.1×	79	1.4k
Muhammad Ahsanul Habib Canada	19	682 0.9×	142 0.3×	118 0.2×	68 0.3×	18 0.1×	113	1.0k
Kayvan Aghabayk Iran	26	779 1.0×	882 1.6×	219 0.4×	367 1.5×	16 0.1×	83	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charitha Dias

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All Works

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Dias, Charitha, et al.. (2025). Can pedestrians safely navigate shared sidewalks with e-scooters and bicycles? A behavioral analysis using surrogate safety measures. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 116. 103407–103407. 1 indexed citations

Baig, Hasan, et al.. (2025). Examining access to daily functions through the lens of the 15-minute city concept in a highly populated city. Geocarto International. 40(1). 2 indexed citations

Hussain, Zahid, Charitha Dias, Qinaat Hussain, et al.. (2024). Experimental Investigation of Pedestrians Interacting with E-Scooter Riders on Residential Roads. Procedia Computer Science. 251. 303–310. 2 indexed citations

Nishiuchi, Hiroaki, et al.. (2023). Identifying the relationship between intention to use flat-rate public transport and trip frequency by a discrete-continuous model. Public Transport. 16(2). 485–504. 1 indexed citations

Dias, Charitha, et al.. (2023). Exploring Microscopic Characteristics of Bicycle Riders’ following Behaviors in a Single-File Movement. Applied Sciences. 13(11). 6539–6539. 3 indexed citations

Dias, Charitha, et al.. (2023). Exploring Crowd Management and Evacuation Strategies using Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation: A Case Study of Souq Waqif. Qatar University QSpace (Qatar University). 1032–1041. 2 indexed citations

Alhajyaseen, Wael, et al.. (2023). Lane-based analysis of the saturation flow rate considering traffic composition. Transportation Planning and Technology. 46(5). 653–671.

Hussain, Qinaat, et al.. (2022). Safety Analysis of Merging Vehicles Based on the Speed Difference between on-Ramp and Following Mainstream Vehicles Using NGSIM Data. Sustainability. 14(24). 16436–16436. 4 indexed citations

Hussain, Qinaat, Wael Alhajyaseen, Ali Pirdavani, et al.. (2021). Improved traffic safety at work zones through animation-based variable message signs. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 159. 106284–106284. 20 indexed citations

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Asano, Miho, et al.. (2021). Interactions between autonomous vehicles and pedestrians at unsignalized mid-block crosswalks considering occlusions by opposing vehicles. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 163. 106468–106468. 21 indexed citations

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Javid, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Abdullah, Nazam Ali, & Charitha Dias. (2021). Structural equation modeling of public transport use with COVID-19 precautions: An extension of the norm activation model. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 12. 100474–100474. 54 indexed citations

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Abdullah, Muhammad, Charitha Dias, Deepti Muley, & Md. Shahin. (2020). Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on travel behavior and mode preferences. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 8. 100255–100255. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lovreglio, Ruggiero, et al.. (2018). Investigating pedestrian navigation in indoor open space environments using big data. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 62. 499–509. 29 indexed citations

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Dias, Charitha, et al.. (2017). Experimental Analysis of Segway Rider Behavior under Mixed Traffic Conditions. 69(2). 81–85. 6 indexed citations

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Dias, Charitha, et al.. (2017). Calibration of a Social Force-based Shared Space Model for Personal Mobility Vehicle and Pedestrian Mixed Traffic. Transportation Research Board 96th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 7 indexed citations

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Dias, Charitha & Majid Sarvi. (2016). Exploring the effect of turning manoeuvres on macroscopic properties of pedestrian flow. Transport Research Forum. 6 indexed citations

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Asano, Miho, et al.. (2016). Experimental Analysis of Personal Mobility Maneuver Reacting to Pedestrians and Cyclists. 68(4). 281–284. 4 indexed citations

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Gorrini, Andrea, Stefania Bandini, Majid Sarvi, Charitha Dias, & Nirajan Shiwakoti. (2013). An Empirical Study of Crowd and Pedestrian Dynamics: the Impact of Different Angle Paths and Grouping. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1–10. 22 indexed citations

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Dias, Charitha, et al.. (2013). Experimental study on pedestrian walking characteristics through angled corridors. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 1–11. 13 indexed citations

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Dias, Charitha, Majid Sarvi, & Nirajan Shiwakoti. (2012). Intersecting and merging pedestrian crowd flows under panic conditions: insights from biological entities. Transport Research Forum. 32(2). 1–8. 2 indexed citations

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