Professor Xumei (Melanie) Chen from the School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University will provide an online seminar entitled “Environmental Impact of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles considering Platooning with Buses in Urban Scenariosat” at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, on Friday March 22nd 2024 at 9:30.
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The Professor and Director of the Department of Transportation Planning Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) George Yannis, has started a campaign to run 30 Marathons in 30 months in order to promote the 30km/h speed limit in cities. Running with the emblem of the NTUA, Prometheus the Fire-bearer, he has already successfully completed 24 Marathons in 24 months, all performing sub 4-hours, and there are 6 remaining Marathons to complete his challenge in November 2024 at the Athens Marathon. Read more
The Laboratory of Pavement Engineering of the NTUA School of Civil Engineering is seeking a PhD Candidate for a PhD Thesis on the Development of Artificial Intelligence Methodologies in Pavements.
The required qualifications of candidates are:
– a Master’s degree or a single and unbroken Master’s degree in Civil Engineering
– Excellent knowledge of the English language
– Excellent computer skills (MS Office)
– Knowledge of programming tools (ideally machine learning software) Read more
In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, Imperial College London is offering 4 scholarships to students from Ghana, Greece, Malaysia and Mexico applying for postgraduate courses in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Business subjects.
The scholarship programme offers financial support to students pursuing one-year postgraduate study at Imperial.
Candidates need to have been given an offer of admission by the 13th of March 2024.
Detailed description of the scholarship programme can be found at
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech is inviting students from NTUA to apply to the following 3 Master programmes designed for students holding a Master’s degree (Only applications from candidates previously nominated will be considered):
The New Year Event of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on Monday, February 5th, 2024, at 13:30, at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport with the participation of more than 60 members of the Department and the School of Civil Engineering. Read more
Announcements for Scholarships for Postgraduate Transport Studies in Greece and abroad are presented below. These Scholarships concern both MSc and PhD Programmes. Students are solicited to apply directly to the Universities announcing these scholarships, whereas they can always discuss them with the Professors of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering.
Within the framework of the Horizon Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Industrial Doctoral Network IVORY – Artificial Intelligence for Vision Zero in Road Safety, a call for applications for 15 new Industrial PhD candidates has been launched, 4 of them to be hosted by National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), a Centre of Road Safety Research Excellence with global recognition. The 4 PhD Candidates will be recruited for 3 years, shared between Academia and Industry and are expected to be strongly focused and motivated on advanced research and quantitative analysis for innovative road safety solutions. Read more
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 971 Greek scientists are contained in the global top 2%, among which 130 researchers from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). 21 Professors from the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA are among the top 2% researchers in the world (5 within the top-ten of NTUA), while 6 of them from the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, (5 within the top-eleven of the School of Civil Engineering). 
The NTUA Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering organised with great success a Scientific Workshop titled “Telematics boosting mobility behaviour” which took place at the NTUA Campus in Athens on November 22nd, 2023.
The rapid spread of innovative technologies in the field of telematics creates new opportunities to monitor, evaluate and improve driver behaviour through feedback tools, providing incentives to drivers for safer and greener behaviour, with spectacular results.
During this workshop, the new interactive SafeRoadsMap tool for safe and green travelling in Greece has been released.
The examinations of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of October 2023 took place with great success from Wednesday November 1st to Friday November 3rd 2023, at Railways Amphitheatre and at teaching room 109.
NTUA Professor Eleni Vlahogianni has received the 2017–2020 ITSM Outstanding Paper Award. The Award Judging Panel’s decision is based on the consideration of the following decision-making criteria: originality, citations, impact and importance. This decision has been announced in IEEE – Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, Vol. 15, Number 2, 2023, pp.272-274. 
The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of July 2023 took place with great success on Monday July 17th and on Tuesday July 18th 2023, at Railways Amphitheatre.
The students which defended their theses are as follows:
The distinguished lecture of Professor Andreas Loizos at the International Conference on Geophysics for GPR “12th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar” held on 5-7 July 2023 in Lisbon with great success. The topic of the lecture “Advances and Challenges on GPR in Pavement Infrastructure” was about the latest developments in geophysics and radar in transportation infrastructure projects, with a special emphasis on the impact of AI.
Dr. Marko Ševrović Associate Professor at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences of the University of Zagreb, gave a lecture which took place with great success on Friday, June 23rd 2023 at 13.30 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, entitled “Road Infrastructure Safety Assessments – the iRAP Methodology“.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Bogenberger , Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control at Technical University of Munich, gave a lecture which took place with great success on Friday, June 9th 2023 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, entitled “The MobilityCoin System”.
Professor Emeritus John Golias was appointed Minister of Infrastructure and Transport at the new transitional Government of Greece.
Professor Emeritus John Golias has been the Director of Traffic Engineering Laboratory of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, Dean of the School of Civil Engineering and Rector of National Technical University of Athens. He has been involved in all areas of transportation planning and engineering sector for more than 40 years through numerous research projects, engineering studies and committees in Greece and abroad and he is the author of a great number of published scientific papers, cited widely worldwide. He served also as Secretary General of the Ministry of Transport during the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and Chairman of the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers.
NTUA within the framework of the Seventh UN Global Road Safety Week organised with great success a Scientific Workshop titled “Road Safety Research Challenges” which was held at the Railways and Transport Laboratory (and online) on May 19th, 2023 .
The objective of this Workshop was to highlight through an intensive flow of presentations the main findings and challenges of key road safety research projects carried out within the NTUA Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering.
The NTUA Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering organised with great success a Scientific Workshop titled “Telematics and Driver Behaviour” which took place at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport on April 4th, 2023. The Workshop was also available through Webex (https://centralntua.webex.com/wbxmjs/joinservice/sites/centralntua/meeting/download/764247dcf2d84520bdf1f583cef8bd96?siteurl=centralntua&MTID=mc22901c36e31c169cd8657a9e19d822c). Read more