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Professor Andreas Loizos will be 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 will take place on December 11-12, 2018, in Champaign, Illinois, USA. Read more

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 .

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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.

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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

 

 

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.

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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.

The students which defended their theses are as follows:

 Alexopoulos Christoforos, Ιnvestigation of natural gas energy security issues in Europe, (Supervisor: Α. Ballis).
 Apostolopoulos Vasilios, Investigation of Issues relating to Fleet Management & Vehicle Routing, (Supervisor: Α. Ballis).
 Zervas Petros, Ιnvestigation of complementarity issues of the European high speed railway with air passenger transport, (Supervisor: Α. Ballis).
 Karali Nicki, A multicriteria Approach for Evaluating the Performance of Startup Companies in the sector of Smart Cities, (Supervisor: Α. Ballis).
 Laios Ilias, Development of an Optimization Model of Resource Allocation for the Management of Urban Transport Buses, (Supervisor: G. Yannis).
 Lionoudakis Pavlos, Visualization technologies in planning a road project, (Supervisor: Α. Loizos – F. Mertzanis).
 Mavrogiannis Ioannis, Quantification of eco-driving using crowdsourcing data, (Supervisor: Ε. Vlahogianni).
 Boras George, Supervised and unsupervised learning models for automatically indentifying driving events, (Supervisor: Ε. Vlahogianni).
 Papalymperis Panagiotis, Analysis of the impact of autonomous vehicles to travel behaviour, (Supervisor: G. Yannis).
 Papachristopoulou Lefketi, Modeling of Distracted Driving Behavior at the Emergence of Unexpected Events, (Supervisor: Ε. Vlahogianni).
 Prasinou Charikleia, Geometric design of Highway exit – entrance ramps, (Supervisor: Α. Loizos – F. Mertzanis).
 Prevenios Michalis, Investigation of operational cost aspects concerning heavy trucks passing through the side road network, (Supervisor: Α. Ballis).
 Feggouli Christina, Investigation of the influence of the moisture content on the resilient modulus of subgrade soils beneath pavement structures, (Supervisor: C. Plati).
 Fotis Athanasios, Ιnvestigation of natural gas energy security issues in Europe, (Supervisor: Α. Ballis).

 

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