Entries by Maria Kouaki

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Diploma Theses Exams, March 2024

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:

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Online Seminar at NTUA, Professor Xumei Chen, March 2024

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. Online link 

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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) […]

Scholarships for Transport Studies, 2024

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.

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

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. […]

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

NTUA – Telematics boosting mobility behaviour Workshop, Athens, November 2023

The NTUA Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering organised with great success a Scientific Workshop titled “Telematics boosting mobility behaviour” which took place at the NTUA Campus in Athens on November 22nd, 2023. The rapid spread of innovative technologies in the field of telematics creates new opportunities to monitor, evaluate and improve driver behaviour through feedback tools, providing incentives […]

Diploma theses exams, October 2023

The examinations of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of October 2023  took place with great success from Wednesday November 1st to Friday November 3rd 2023, at Railways Amphitheatre and at teaching room 109.

Prof. Eleni Vlahogianni receives the 2017-2020 ITSM Outstanding Research Paper High Commendation Award, Augoust 2023

NTUA Professor Eleni Vlahogianni has received the 2017–2020 ITSM Outstanding Paper Award. The Award Judging Panel’s decision is based on the consideration of the following decision-making criteria: originality, citations, impact and importance. This decision has been announced in IEEE – Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, Vol. 15, Number 2, 2023, pp.272-274. 

Diploma theses exams, July 2023

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of July 2023 took place with great success on Monday July 17th and on Tuesday July 18th 2023, at Railways Amphitheatre. The students which defended their theses are as follows:

Professor Andreas Loizos keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Geophysics for GPR, July 2023

The distinguished lecture of Professor Andreas Loizos at the International Conference on Geophysics for GPR “12th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar” held on 5-7 July 2023 in Lisbon with great success. The topic of the lecture “Advances and Challenges on GPR in Pavement Infrastructure” was about the latest developments in geophysics and radar in […]

Dr. Marko Sevrovic lecture in NTUA, June 23rd 2023

Dr. Marko Ševrović  Associate Professor at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences of the University of Zagreb, gave a lecture which took place with great success on Friday, June 23rd 2023 at 13.30 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, entitled “Road Infrastructure Safety Assessments – the iRAP Methodology“.