Department of Transport

NTUA Road Safety Research ranked 2nd in Europe and 6th worldwide, 2019

07/01/2019/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Road Safety Research at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA is ranked 2nd in Europe and 6th worldwide according to a recent study published at the leading safety Scientific Journal Accident Analysis and Prevention. Moreover, NTUA Prof. George Yannis appears between the most productive scientific authors worldwide in the field of road safety. This ranking is based on a systematic analysis of all road safety studies published on Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between 2000 and 2018.

V. Kyriakopoulos student of the School of Civil Engineering awarded with “Apostolos Chr. Yotis” Award, December 2018

20/12/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Vasileios Kyriakopoulos student of the School of Civil Engineering NTUA, has been awarded with “Apostolos Chr. Yotis” Award, for the highest average grade at the mandatory courses Geometric Design of Roads (5th semester), Road Construction (6th semester) and at the mandatory of cycle course Design of Road and Airfield Pavements (7th semester), during the academic year 2017-2018.

1st Prize Award “Dimitrios Tsamboulas” to graduates/students of NTUA, December 2018

13/12/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

A team of NTUA graduates and students, consisting of Mr. Stathopoulos Spyros (graduate 2017), Mrs. Karakonstantinou Kalliopi (graduate 2018), Mr. Petroulakis Zacharias (student) and Mr. Vasilis Apostolopoulos (graduate 2018) that have drafted /are drafting their diploma thesis in the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, collaborated, claimed and received the 1st Prize in the Annual Panhellenic Competition of the Hellenic Chambers Transport Association (EESYM) “Dimitrios Tsamboulas” for the academic year 2017-2018.

The award ceremony held on Thursday, December 13, 2018, at the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) Events’ Hall. Read more

Professor Andreas Loizos, distinguished Keynote Speaker at the 59th Annual Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference, December 2018

11/12/2018/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Professor Andreas Loizos has been the distinguished Keynote Speaker at the opening of the 59th Annual Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference with the lecture entitled: “Experiences in Performance Assessment of Engineering Low Energy Asphalt Mixes”. The 59th Annual Illinois Bituminous Paving Conference took place on December 11-12, 2018, in Champaign, Illinois, USA. Read more

International Expert Roula Kokkota Lecture at NTUA, November 2018

29/11/2018/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Roula Kokkota, an International Transport Expert gave a lecture on November 29th, 2018 at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering (Railways Amphitheater) of NTUA titled: “Organizing Transport Services in Mega Events”.

Diploma Theses Exams, November 2018

03/11/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on November 1st and November 2nd 2018 .

Presentation of the Department to the Civil Engineering School students, October 2018

05/10/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

On Friday 5th October 2018, Professor George Yannis, Director of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, presented the transportation engineering courses cycle to the Civil Engineering undergraduate students of the 6th semester, within the framework of the information event for the courses’ cycles organized by the School of Civil Engineering.

Dimitris Tselentis defended his PhD Thesis on Benchmarking Driving Efficiency using Data Science Techniques, October 2018

03/10/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Dimitris Tselentis has successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled: “Benchmarking Driving Efficiency using Data Science Techniques applied on Large-Scale Smartphone Data”, on October 3rd 2018. 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 Prof. G. Yannis.

Trinity College of Dublin Assistant Professor Bidisha Ghosh Lecture at NTUA, October 2018

01/10/2018/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Bidisha Ghosh Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland gave a lecture on October 4th, 2018, at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering (Railways Amphitheater) of NTUA titled: “Cycling: Measurements, Impacts and Network Integration”.

Training Course Simulating with Aimsun Next, September 2018

04/09/2018/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

In the framework of the international conference hEART2018 co-organized by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), AIMSUN offered a training course on the use of the Aimsun Next Traffic Simulation Program. The seminar took place on September 4th, 2018 (09:30 – 17:30), at the Railways Amphitheater of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering NTUA, Zografou, Athens. Read more

Kochi University of Technology (KUT) Assistant Professor Hiroaki Nishiuchi Lecture at NTUA, September 2018

04/09/2018/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Dr. Hiroaki Nishiuchi, Assistant Professor at the School of Systems Engineering of Kochi University of Technology (KUT) in Japan gave a Lecture on September 4^th, 2018, at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA titled: “The change of passengers’ travel pattern and the level of service in public transport network”.

Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, NTUA ranked 15th in Europe, 2018

27/08/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

The Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) was ranked 15th in Europe and 65th place worldwide among all Transportation Science & Technology Schools according to the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2018. NTUA road safety activities have contributed to this excellent performance. Accordingly, the NTUA Civil Engineering School was ranked 7th worldwide (3rd European) among all Civil Engineering Schools .

Diploma Theses Exams, July 2018

19/07/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on July 18th and 19th 2018.

Bar Ilan University (BIU) Professor Tova Rosenbloom Lecture at NTUA, June 2018

22/06/2018/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Prof. Tova Rosenbloom, Chair in Research Institute of Human Factors in Road Safety in the Management department at Bar Ilan University (BIU) in Israel gave a Lecture on June 22nd, 2018, at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering (Railways Amphitheater) of NTUA titled: “Individual differences of road users and their impact on their performance”.
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University of California at Berkeley (UCB) Professor Alexander Skabardonis Lecture at NTUA, May 2018

31/05/2018/0 Comments/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Alexander Skabardonis, NTUA alumni and Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) gave a Lecture on May 31st, 2018, at 15:00, at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering (Railways Amphitheater) of NTUA titled: “Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs): Challenges and Opportunities for Traffic Operations”.
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Five DTPE PhD students awarded with the NTUA Thomaidion Award, May 2018

30/05/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Emmanouil Barmpounakis, Panagiotis Papantoniou, Dimosthenis Pavlou, Dimitris Tselentis and Panos Georgiou PhD students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA were awarded with the NTUA Thomaidion Award for outstanding publications in scientific journals for the year 2016.

Diploma Theses Exams, March 2018

24/03/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on March 19th and March 23rd 2018. Read more

7th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART2018), Athens, 2018

08/02/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

The Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the chair of Transportation System Engineering of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are co-organising the 7th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART) in September 5-7 2018 in Athens.

Members of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering participated to the 97th TRB Annual Meeting, Washington January 2018

11/01/2018/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

Members of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering participated to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting that held with great success in Washington, D.C., on 7-11 January 2018. The meeting program covered all transportation modes, with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops, addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. A number of sessions and workshops focused on the spotlight theme for the 2018 meeting: Transportation: Moving the Economy of the Future

Diploma Theses Exams, November 2017

03/11/2017/in Latest News /by Maria Kouaki

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on November 1^st and November 3rd 2017.