The New Year Event of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on Monday, January 27th, 2020, at 13:00, at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport with the participation of more than 60 members and students of the Department and the School of Civil Engineering.

During the event the Director of the Department Professor George Yannis made a brief presentation of the educational, research and scientific work of the previous year.

Annual Report 2019 

SafetyCube project has been awarded the prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award 2019 as recognition for its innovative open-access web-based Road Safety Decision Support System (DSS) that enables policy-makers and stakeholders to select and implement the most appropriate strategies, measures and cost-effective approaches to reduce casualties of all road user types and all severities in Europe and worldwide.  Read more

During 30th POLIS Conference on 28 November 2019, in Brussels, Belgium, the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) declared its full support and signed the City declaration “The new Paradigm for Safe City Streets” including 10 principles to be recognized by EU cities, as necessary for sound and effective action for traffic safety.  

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 and on  Tuesday, October 29th 2019 at Railways Amphitheatre and on Friday, November 1st 2019 at teaching room 109.

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The Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering was present at the established pan-European celebration of research and science “Researcher Night”, which took place with great success on September 27th 2019 at the Averof building of the historical Patision complex of the National Technical University of Athens.

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During the International Conference on Airfield & Highway Pavements 2019 that was held in Chicago (USA) on 21-24 July 2019, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) awarded Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., M.ASCE with the prestigious Harland Bartholomew Award. She was awarded by the Co-chair of the Conference Andreas Loizos, Professor of NTUA, in the presence of Muhammad Amer, M. ASCE – Director, T&DI.

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On July 5^th 2019 at the premises of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of the NTUA, a meeting was held between members, the Laboratory of Transportation Engineering of the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of the NTUA and delegation from Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Greg Winfree (Director), Bill Eisele (TTI Mobility Division Head and Senior Research Engineer), and Juan Villa (Mexico City Office Manager and Research Scientist). The meeting was the result of a four-month preparation under the coordination of the Deputy Rector of NTUA for Academic Affairs Prof. Marinos Kavouras  and Prof. Andrea Loizos, Director of the Laboratory of Pavement Engineering of the NTUA. The workshop included the presentation of the activities of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering presented by the Head of the Department Prof. George Yannis, also the members of the Laboratory of Transportation Engineering of the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering and the TTI presented the related activities. The overall workshop coordination was under the auspices of the Rector of the NTUA, Prof. John Golias and aimed to identify innovative areas of research collaboration of common interest.

The workshop ended with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between NTUA-TTI in the Rector’s office.

NTUA within the framework of the Fifth UN Global Road Safety Week organized a Scientific Workshop titled “Digitalisation and Road Safety Research” which took place with great success on 17 May 2019 in Athens.

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