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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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.
Eva Michelaraki defended her PhD thesis titled “Improving driver safety tolerance zone through holistic analysis of road, vehicle and behavioural risk factors” on Thursday October 3rd 2024 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: https://centralntua.webex.com/meet/geyannis This PhD thesis […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Department of Civil Engineering at University of Kentucky is seeking highly motivated PhD-level Research Assistants (RAs) for a major interdisciplinary project titled “Physical Modeling of Hillslope Response to Climate Forcings”. 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 […]
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:
Mr Constantine Kyriazis Cityzen Parking & Services CEO, gave a lecture entitled “The parking of the future is here: Operation of 360° parking spaces & new technologies” which took place with great success on Thursday April 23rd 2024 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA.
The Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens contributed actively with 35 innovative scientific papers and presentations at the 10th Transport Research Arena (TRA) Conference, which took place with great success in Dubllin, Ireland, from April 15th to April 18th 2024. The spotlight theme for the 2024 Conference was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]