Dr Rutul Joshi is an urban planner, educator, and researcher with nearly two decades of experience at CEPT University. He has played a key role in shaping planning pedagogy, academic programmes, and research culture, including leading curriculum initiatives and serving in academic leadership roles such as Head of the Doctoral Office.

Dr Rutul’s professional and research work focuses on Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), sustainable urban mobility, low-emission zones, and urban policy reforms. Over the past decade, he has engaged closely with the evolution of TOD in India—from early-stage research and national policy formulation to planning tool development, capacity building, and on-ground implementation. He is a principal author of India’s TOD Planning Handbook and has trained several hundred government officials in TOD-based Local Area Planning.

He has worked as a consultant and expert advisor on major projects with institutions including the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), GiZ, C40 Cities, ITDP, and Japan-based research institutions. His project experience spans urban mobility and TOD initiatives in India as well as East Africa.

Rutul’s work bridges academic research and planning practice. He is actively engaged in national and international discussions on sustainable, equitable, and climate-responsive urban development, and regularly contributes to academic publications and public discourse through newspapers and other media platforms.