On January 19, an informative teleconference was held between an executive of the Blue Lab and members of our Department. Blue Lab (https://www.bluelab.gr/about) is a center that cultivates the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship welcoming young people who wish to develop technological and business skills.
Fotios Fotos 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 Roads Geometric Design (5th semester), Roads Construction (6th semester) and at the mandatory of cycle course Design of Road and Airfield Pavements (7th semester), during the academic year 2019-2020.
Maria Konstantinidou has successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled: “Model development for the optimization of network operation in the aftermath of a catastrophic event”, on Wednesday December 2nd 2020 at 9.30, via a teleconference: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a1607707187e640cd9ba0ef34f20a36a7%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=2b70824c-b33e-481e-8ba4-b0bf8a1910f5&tenantId=075e0cb3-752a-4320-b3676d08b7918c40 Read more
The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with grate success from October 30th to November 6th 2020 via a teleconference using the application Cisco Webex (https://www.webex.com/).
The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with grate success from July 16th to July 21st 2020 via a teleconference. Read more
Apostolos Ziakopoulos has successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled: “High resolution spatio-temporal analysis of road safety and traffic behaviour”, on Monday July 20th 2020 via a teleconference (https://centralntua.webex.com/centralntua/j.php?MTID=m57b7271d3b11cc79727d3e39d536ae1e).
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 G. Yannis.
Announcements for Scholarships for Postgraduate Transport Studies in Greece and abroad are presented below. These Scholarships concern both MSc and PhD Programmes. Students are solicited to apply directly to the Universities announcing these scholarships, whereas they can always discuss them with the Professors of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering.
Bradley Watson Cliatt has successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled: “Characterization of unbound materials for flexible pavement design”, on Wednesday April 15th 2020 via a teleconference.
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 A. Loizos.
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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 grate success on March 11th and 12th 2020 at Railways Amphitheatre.
Ioannis Golias, Professor of the Department and former Rector of NTUA is the new President, Non-Executive Member, of the Board of Directors of the Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA).
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 
Paris Charitatos 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 Roads Geometric Design (5th semester), Roads Construction (6th semester) and at the mandatory of cycle course Design of Road and Airfield Pavements (7th semester), during the academic year 2018-2019.
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
SaferAfrica Project has been awarded the prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award 2019 as recognition for establishing a Dialogue Platform between Africa and Europe focusing on road safety management.
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 PhD Candidate of the Department of TPE of NTUA, Mr. George Kasselouris, received the 1st Prize in the Annual Panhellenic Competition of the Hellenic Chambers Transport Association (HCTA) “Dimitrios Tsamboulas 2019, on the subject of: “Prospect of developing combined intermodal national and international freight transport in Greece – Obstacles, challenges, suggestions”.
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.
At the launch of the 9th International Congress on Transport Research (ICTR 2019), Professor Emeritus Constantinos Abacoumkin received an honorary award for his multi-year contribution to the science of Transport Engineering. The award was given by the Director of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering Professor George Yannis.
