Announcements for key Transport Conferences and Workshops in Greece, in Europe and worldwide are presented below, which might be of interest for the undergraduate and graduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA.
Ms. Anastasia Pneumatikou, Head of Traffic Planning and Studies of the Nea Odos company, Central Greece road, gave a lecture entitled: “Road Safety in practice: The case of PATHE (Transformation of Skarfeia)” which took place on Monday December 16th at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA.
In the lecture, researchers and students were given the opportunity to learn about the basic issues of operation and maintenance of modern highways with specific examples of traffic management tools and accident analysis monitoring as well as road safety audit findings.
Mr. Chrysostomos Rizomyliotis, Managing Partner of Denco Transport Ltd, gave a lecture entitled: “Traffic Studies – Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans” which took place on Monday November 25th at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA.
In the lecture, researchers and students were given the opportunity to be informed about the content of Traffic Studies with specific examples in selected Municipalities in Greece, but also the challenges of Sustainable Urban Mobility Studies.
The 2024 Autumn General Assembly of the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) took place with great success in Athens, Greece on November 25 & 26, 2024, hosted by the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
George Yannis, Professor and Director of the Department of Transportation Planning Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), has successfully completed on Sunday 10 November 2024 in Athens his campaign to run 30 Marathons in 30 months in order to promote the 30km/h speed limit in cities worldwide. He has finished all Marathons in under 4 hours. Read more
Peter Savolainen, Research Foundation Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University, gave a lecture which took place on Monday, November 11th 2024 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, entitled “Relating Available Stopping Sight Distance to Crash Risks: Insights from NCHRP 15-75”.
The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of July 2024 took place with great success on on Tuesday October 29th, Wednesday October 30th and Monday November 4th 2024, at Railways Amphitheatre.
Vionis Stafanos, Electric Vehicle Scheduling Problem (E-VSP) for Modular Buses, (Supervisor K. Gkiotsalitis).
Vlachos George, Factors affecting the decistion to install a fast charger in private parking spaces, (Supervisor K. Gkiotsalitis).
Gkiourtzidis Anestis, Critical factors of safe micromobility in Greece, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
Theodoraki Eleni Maria, Investigation of dangerous driving behaviour by exploiting naturalistic driving data, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
Kanellakis Stavros, Assessment of the environmental impact of asphalt mix production, (Supervisor C. Plati).
Kost Vladyslav, Electric bus scheduling problem with time windows, considering stochastic travel times, (Supervisor K. Gkiotsalitis).
Krini Paraskevi, Analysis of factors influencing traffic conditions changes in Athens, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
Labrakou Marianna, Operating cost of bus lines in Athens in case of conventional and electric buses, (Supervisor K. Gkiotsalitis).
Loumiotis George, Investigation and analysis of international standards for the assessment of the functional characteristics of road surface, (Supervisor C. Plati).
Befani Kalliopi, Detection of generalized traffic patterns in urban networks, (Supervisor E. Vlahogianni).
Bouropoulou Themida, Analysis of drink and drive on driven behavior and safety in urban environment, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
Oikonomou Dimitrios, Critical factors of motorcyclists self-declared behaviour and safety globally, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
Pantelaki Zacharenia, Methodology for Rehabilitation or Maintenance of Rigid Pavements, (Supervisor C. Plati).
Perdikouris Andreas, Investigation of urban road network resilience metrics and their relationship, (Supervisor E. Vlahogianni).
Sousouni Maria Ioanna, Analysis of eco-driving benefits in urban and highway environments using driving simulator, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
Syropoulos Nikolaos, Life cycle assessement using reclaimed asphalt pavement, (Supervisor C. Plati).
Takka Maria, Safety Impact Investigation of an automated shuttle service based on network traffic simulation, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
Javara Konstantina, Estimation of traffic load in urban road networks using machine learning models, (Supervisor E. Vlahogianni).
Filippidis Nikitas Maratos, Road crashes analysis in greek islands, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
Fotopoulos Konstantinos, Preferences of Public Transport passengers towards contactless bank card payments, (Supervisor G. Yannis).
In a recently published study conducted at Stanford University (USA), using a range of parameters for each scientist’s research contribution and influence, million scientists data from Scopus database were analysed. According to this study 1,019 Greek scientists are contained in the global top 2%, among which 159 researchers from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). 25 Professors from the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA are among the top 2% researchers in the world (4 within the top-ten of NTUA), while 7 of them from the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, (5 within the top-ten of the School of Civil Engineering) 
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Cityzen Parking & Services, is looking for an undergraduate or graduate engineer with a specialization or interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for an internship or part-time employment. The objective is to help integrate AI into its business processes and further improve its services. Read more
This PhD thesis was carried out at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens under the supervision of Professor George Yannis. Read more
Eng. Roberto Ventura, Assistant Professor at the University of Brescia (Italy), gave a lecture which took place on Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, entitled “Traffic Hazard on Main Road Bridges: Real-Time Evaluation and Management of the Risk Related to Design Load Overcoming Events”.
In this lecture, we will explore the risk of bridges within road networks due to traffic load hazards, a key focus of Eng. Ventura’s research. Bridges can experience failures that undermine their serviceability or even lead to collapse. Since traffic load hazards are among the primary causes of bridge failures, evaluating the associated risk and implementing real-time risk management strategies are essential for ensuring the safety of road infrastructures. Read more
During summer holidays, the restoration of the traffic signs of the central part of the road network of NTUA Zografou campus was completed.
A total of: 90 signs marking dangerous places, 125 regulatory signs and 3 convex mirrors were installed with galvanized metal poles. The traffic signs have been placed according to Road Design Guidelines Manual (OMOE-KSO, OMOE-K3) and the Highway code, based on a traffic study prepared and provided by the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering.
Candidates should have a Master’s degree in civil engineering or an equivalent, with a degree concentration in landslide or other natural hazard engineering, or geotechnical engineering with an
emphasis on slope stability in unsaturated soils, or geological engineering/engineering geology with an emphasis on modeling physical systems under climate forcings, or geo-engineering with an emphasis on modeling and analytics of remotely sensed hillslope data.
The start date is Spring 2025. Interested applicants should email Dr. L. Sebastian Bryson (sebastian.bryson@uky.edu) and submit their CV, transcripts, and evidence of academic scholarship.
More informations for these 2 positions can be found at
The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of of July 2024 took place with greate success on Wednesday July 17th, Thursday July 18th and Friday July 19th 2024, at Railways Amphitheatre.
The students which defended their theses are as follows:
The I-SENSE-Group and the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) of the National and Technical University of Athens organises the second Hi-Drive Summer School on ‘Navigating the Future with Advanced and Safe Automated Driving’ within the framework of the EU project Hi-Drive. This year’s Summer School will be held on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 September 2024 in Athens, at the conference center of the Amarilia Hotel in Vouliagmeni. Read more
The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of March 2024 took place with greate success on Thursday March 21st and Friday March 22nd 2024, at Railways Amphitheatre.
The students which defended their theses are as follows:
Panagiotis Fafoutellis has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Traffic Theory Inspired Spatiotemporal and Multimodal Deep Learning Models for Trustworthy Short-Term Urban Traffic Forecasting” on Thursday March 28th 2024 at 16.30 at the Railways Amphitheatre of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA, and online via a teleconference at the following link:
Dimitris Nikolaou has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Machine learning-based road crash risk assessment fusing infrastructure, traffic and driver behaviour data” on Wednesday March 27th 2024 at 15.00 at the Railways Amphitheatre of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA, and online via a teleconference at the following link: