URSTP household survey
52,600 households and ~207,000 interviews for Dhaka’s Strategic Transport Plan.
Traffic surveys
Every vehicle, counted and classified.
Manual, video and AI-assisted counts at junctions, bridges and corridors — with OD, speed and parking surveys alongside.
- Video recorded
- 620+ hours
- Recent sites
- Bosila, Tora, Bhairab
Household surveys · ADB / DTCA
52,600 households for Dhaka’s transport plan.
The household interview and activity diary surveys behind the updated Strategic Transport Plan.
Transport planning
From passenger counts to multimodal hubs.
Passenger and vehicle surveys for the Kamalapur Multimodal Transport Hub feasibility study, and corridor evidence for planners.
2026 · World Bank
Voice messages for safer pregnancies.
An IVR and social behaviour change programme reaching more than 3,137 pregnant women in four districts.
3,137+women reached
2025 · JICA / DMP
Evidence for safer streets in Dhaka.
Field surveys for the Dhaka Road Traffic Safety Project with JICA and Dhaka Metropolitan Police, building on our 2023 baseline.
- Speed & behaviour surveys
- Junction observation
- Baseline 2023 → follow-up 2025
Careers · Field team
1,000+ trained enumerators. Room for more.
We train enumerators on interviewing, digital data collection, ethics and safety before every major survey.
Who we are
A research partner built in the field.
AIR began in 2018 counting vehicles on Dhaka’s roads. Clients trusted the numbers, so the mandates grew: city-wide household surveys, travel-demand studies, evaluations and decision-ready analytics. We have been a private limited company since 2023.
Read our story52,600+households in a single survey
207,000+interviews in one study
1,000+trained enumerators
45multidisciplinary consultants
Clients, funders & partners
- Roads & Highways Department
- IDRA
- BNFE
- Red Sea Gateway Terminals
- Yooshin Engineering
- Dohwa Engineering
What we do
Four practices, one accountable field team.
From study design to the final dashboard, the same team owns the whole chain.
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Transport & urban mobility
Our founding practice: counting, tracking and interviewing the people and vehicles that move through Bangladesh.
- Traffic surveys
- Transport planning
- Travel demand (RP/SP)
- Feasibility studies
Surveys, research & evaluation
Large samples, hard-to-reach respondents and tight deadlines, handled with digital tools and layered quality control.
- Household surveys
- Quantitative & qualitative research
- Social & market research
- Third-party monitoring
Data, GIS & technology
Clean data, clear maps and systems your team can keep using after the project ends.
- Data analytics & dashboards
- GIS & remote sensing
- Technology & IT consultancy
Advisory & capacity
Turning findings into plans, policies and people who can carry them forward.
- Strategic planning
- Policy analysis
- Financial advisory
- Training & events
Method
Five steps between a question and a defensible answer.
The same quality-controlled pipeline for 300 interviews or 200,000.
- 01
Scope & design
Sampling, questionnaires and Bangla translation agreed before a single interview.
- 02
Digital build
CAPI forms programmed, tested and piloted.
- 03
Train & mobilise
Enumerators trained on protocol, ethics, consent and safety.
- 04
Collect & check
GPS and audio checks, back-checks and daily dashboards.
- 05
Analyse & report
Clean datasets, statistics, maps and decision-ready reports.
SurveyCTOKoBoToolboxODKREDCapStataSPSSEViewsPythonPower BITableauQGISArcGISNVivoAtlas.tiAndroid StudioAI video counting
Selected work
Evidence behind Bangladesh’s transport plans.
Dhaka Road Traffic Safety
Field surveys with JICA and Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Maternal health IVR & SBCC
Behaviour change messages for 3,137+ pregnant women.
Portfolio by year
Growing with the infrastructure pipeline.
Assignments in AIR’s published portfolio, by start year. 2026 is year to date.
201820192020202120222023202420252026
People
The experts behind the evidence.
13 core professionals and 34 associate experts in statistics, transport, public health, GIS, economics and evaluation.
Meet the team
Nur Hossain
16+ years leading research projects, field operations and client delivery.
Prof. Dr. A.F.M. Jamal Uddin
PhD, Kagoshima University, Japan. Research design and training.
Dr. Md. Muzaffar Ahmed
PhD in Economics. Programme management, evaluation and social protection.
Dr. Rafatul Haque Rishad
PhD in Management; postdoctoral research, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Work with AIR
Planning a survey, study or evaluation?
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