Debajeet Baruah

Debajeet is a public transport expert and leads public transport planning and design. He provides advice on public transport infrastructure specifications, and operations. 

About Debajeet

Debajeet completed Bachelors in Physical Planning, followed by a Master of Planning (Transport Planning) at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.

He began his career at Reliance Special Economics Zone (SEZ), where he became involved in construction methodologies, engineering best practices and project management. His journey in the field of public transport started 2 years after that when he joined Mott MacDonald India team to get involved in the design of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) for the city of Pune. Since then, he has been working with government organizations in India, Bahrain and Auckland in planning bus network, procurement of bus services and infrastructure implementation.

He was head hunted by Ministry of Transportation, Bahrain to work as a Senior Engineer to overhaul the bus network, a dream job for any transport planning enthusiast. Debajeet worked designing and implementing the Kingdom's bus network and infrastructure.

Debajeet arrived in Auckland seven years ago.  He came to Auckland Transport (AT) with a track record in understanding, designing and delivering busways and other forms of rapid transit.  For four and half years, Debajeet was Auckland Metro’s interface into the AMETI (now Eastern Busway) project and has seen the first phase (soon to open) through to where it is now. He was also involved in the planning of future improvements.  

During his time with AT Debajeet was the Metro lead in the design and delivery of bus stations at Manukau, Pukekohe, Hibiscus Coast, and the bus layovers in Panmure. He represented Auckland Metro in strategic AT projects such as North West Bus Improvement, Supporting Growth, Airport to Botany and Connected Communities.