A professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Mohan has a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Michigan and a masters in aerospace engineering from Delaware. He is also credited to be the father of the now reviled BRT system, which has made the morning commute for south Delhi residents even more of a nightmare than it already was.
While little is known of how Mohan's interest in public transport developed, he has been an avid campaigner of increased public transport as a way of reducing accidents and injuries. He heads the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) at IIT Delhi. In fact, his studies have also led him to do research into how injuries affect the body, a study he put to use when he investigated the burning of coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra, for the NGO Hazards Centre. His conclusion: the fire could not have been lighted from the outside.
The Delhi government, fresh from the popular support it received for several measures to improve traffic flow, such as the 19 flyovers that it built and the Metro, wanted to cap it with a pi
