Diploma theses exams, March 2025

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of March 2025  took place with great success on Friday March 21st 2025at Railways Amphitheatre. Read more

Assistant Professor Marco Rinaldi of TU Delft lecture in NTUA, March 13th 2025

Marco Rinaldi, Assistant Professor in Advanced Traffic Management at Delft University of Technology, will give a lecture on Thursday, March 13, at 14:00 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, titled “Auction-based approaches for distributed cooperative traffic management”.

Marco Rinaldi (1985) is Assistant Professor in Advanced Traffic Management at the  Delft University of Technology. He studied Computer and Automation Engineering and completed his PhD research in 2016 on Information collection and Decomposition schemes for Network Traffic Management at the KU Leuven. Between 2016 and 2020 he worked with the University of Luxembourg, researching the impact of fleet electrification for Public Transport operations and tactic management. His research involves computational modelling and problem-solving for Multimodal Traffic Management, investigating aspects of data collection, availability and processing, as well as applications of novel techniques (AI) for fast, responsive and resilient decision support systems.

Armira Kontaxi defended her PhD thesis on the Driver Behavior Telematics Feedback Mechanism, February 2025

Armira Kontaxi defended her PhD thesis titled “The Driver Behavior Telematics Feedback Mechanism” on Friday February 21st 2025 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 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

New year event at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, January 2025

The New Year Event of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on Tuesday, January 28th 2025, at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport with the participation of more than 80 members of the Department and the School of Civil Engineering.

During the event the Director of the Department Professor George Yannis presented the annual report of the educational, research and scientific work of the previous year.

Annual Report 2024 

Associate Professor Stergios Mavromatis has received the Best Paper Award at the 104th TRB Annual Meeting, January 2025

Associate Professor Stergios Mavromatis has received the Best Paper Award by the TRB Standing Committee on Performance Effects of Geometric Design (AKD10) for his research paper titled “Driving Radius Impact on Interchange Ramps” at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which took place in Washington DC from January 5th to January 9th 2025.

HITE workshop – Transportation Engineers discuss and propose: Current situation and perspectives, 27 January 2025

The Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) and its Scientific Committees are organizing a Scientific Workshop on: “Transportation Engineers discuss and propose: Current situation and perspectives” which will take place on Monday, 27 January 2025, at 9:00, at the Amphitheatre of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (2 Anastaseos and Tsigante, Papagou, Attica). Read more

NTUA Zografou campus ring road asphalt restoration, January 2025

On January 20 2025, Section-A of the Zografou Polytechnic Campus ring road was put into use, following the completion of the asphalt paving restoration works.

It is noted that this section was the most damaged and that its restoration was carried out according to modern specifications and with a better asphalt quality category. Pavement Engineering Laboratory and the Departement of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering contributed substantially to the design and supervision. Read more

NTUA at the 104th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 2025

The NTUA  actively contributed with several innovative scientific papers and presentations at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which took place with great success in Washington DC from January 5th to January 9th 2025.

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Ms. Anastasia Pneumatikou, Head of Traffic Planning & Studies of Nea Odos, Central Greece Road lecture, December 2024

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.

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Visit to the Traffic Management Center of New Attiki Odos, Athens, December 2024

As part of the educational activities of the transportation engineering cycle of the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA, an educational visit was held to the Traffic Management Center of New Attiki Odos on Monday, December 16, 2024. During the visit the students of the 7th semester had the opportunity to be informed about the basic traffic issues of the operation of Attiki Odos and to understand in practice the application of the theory of traffic engineering.

 

Mr. Chrysostomos Rizomyliotis, Managing Partner of Denco Transport Ltd. lecture, November 2024

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. Read more

ECTRI General Assembly Meeting, NTUA, Athens, November 2024

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).

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George Υannis – 30 Marathons in 30 months to actively promote the adoption of 30 km/h speed limit in cities

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

Prof. Peter Savolainen lecture in NTUA, November 11th 2024

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”.

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Diploma theses Exams, October 2024

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 2024at Railways Amphitheatre. Read more

NTUA Professors among the top 2% researchers in the world, November 2024

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) icon.url.

Internship at Citizen Parking & Services for Artificial Intelligence, October 2024

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

Eva Michelaraki defended her Phd thesis on improving driver safety tolerance zone, October 2024

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 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 lecture in NTUA, October 2nd 2024

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

Traffic sings restoration at NTUA Zografou Campus, August 2024

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.

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