Dr. R. Badri Narayan, an Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer of the 1986 batch, retired in March 2022 as Chief Administrative Officer, Traffic Transportation and Business Research Unit (TT&BRU), Northern Railway. Prior to that he worked as AGM, Central Railway and DRM, Howrah. Dr. Narayan has worked for more than a decade in the area of software tools for transportation planning, first in the Long-Range Decision Support System project (LRDSS) and later heading the timetabling project in CRIS. A doctorate in Economics from Pennsylvania State University, he obtained his Master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics.