Traffic sings restoration at NTUA Zografou Campus, August 2024

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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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PhD Research Assistant positions in Civil Engineering at University of Kentucky, August 2024

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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 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 pdf

Diploma Theses Exams, July 2024

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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:

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Educational Visit to Polis Park Parking Lot, Athens, May 2024

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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 Polis Park Parking Lot, Children’s Hospital Square (Goudi) on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. During the visit the students of the 8th semester had the opportunity to learn about the basic issues related to the organization, management and exploitation of parking lots and to understand in practice the application of parking theory.

Educational Visit to Polis Park Parking Lot, Athens, May 2023

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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 Polis Park Parking Lot, Children’s Hospital Square (Goudi) on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023. During the visit the students of the 8th semester had the opportunity to learn about the basic issues related to the organization, management and exploitation of parking lots and to understand in practice the application of parking theory.

Constantine Kyriazis Cityzen Parking & Services CEO lecture, April 2024

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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.

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NTUA at the 10th Transport Research Arena (TRA) Conference, Dublin, April 2024

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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 “Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility“.

 

2nd Hi-Drive Summer School on Automated Driving, ICCS/ NTUA, April 2024

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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

Diploma Theses Exams, March 2024

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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:

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Panagiotis Fafoutellis defended his Phd thesis on Traffic Theory Inspired Spatiotemporal and Multimodal Deep Learning Models for Trustworthy Short-Term Urban Traffic Forecasting, March 2024

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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:

https://centralntua.webex.com/meet/elenivl

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Dimitrios Nikolaou defended his Phd thesis on Machine learning-based road crash risk assessment fusing infrastructure, traffic and driver behaviour data, March 2024

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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:

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Online Seminar at NTUA, Professor Xumei Chen, March 2024

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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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Running 30 Marathons in 30 months for 30km/h speed limit in all cities

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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

Phd Thesis at the Laboratory of Pavement Engineering of the NTUA School of Civil Engineering, March 2024

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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

GREAT – Imperial College London MSc Scholarship for Greek students, February 2024

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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 url

 

 

Ecole des Ponts ParisTech Master programmes for NTUA students, February 2024

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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):

  • Materials Sciences for Sustainable Construction (taught in English)
  • Transport and Mobility (taught in French)
  • Mechanics of Soils, Rocks and Structures in their Environment (taught in French)

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New year event at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, February 2024

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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

NTUA / Marie Curie – 4 New PhD Vacancies on AI for Road Safety, February 2024

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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

NTUA at the 103rd TRB Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January 2024

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The Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens contributed actively with several innovative scientific papers and presentations at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which took place with great success in Washington DC from January 7th to January 11th 2024.
The meeting program has covered all transportation modes, with more than 600 workshops addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.

 

NTUA Professors among the top 2% researchers in the world, November 2023

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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). icon.url