Entries by Maria Kouaki

New year event at the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, January 2025

The New Year Event of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering took place with great success on Tuesday, January 28th 2025, at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport with the participation of more than 80 members of the Department and the School of Civil Engineering. During the event the Director of the Department Professor George Yannis […]

Associate Professor Stergios Mavromatis has received the Best Paper Award at the 104th TRB Annual Meeting, January 2025

Associate Professor Stergios Mavromatis has received the Best Paper Award by the TRB Standing Committee on Performance Effects of Geometric Design (AKD10) for his research paper titled “Driving Radius Impact on Interchange Ramps” at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which took place in Washington DC from January 5th to January 9th 2025.

HITE workshop – Transportation Engineers discuss and propose: Current situation and perspectives, 27 January 2025

The Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) and its Scientific Committees are organizing a Scientific Workshop on: “Transportation Engineers discuss and propose: Current situation and perspectives” which will take place on Monday, 27 January 2025, at 9:00, at the Amphitheatre of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (2 Anastaseos and Tsigante, Papagou, Attica).

NTUA Zografou campus ring road asphalt restoration, January 2025

On January 20 2025, Section-A of the Zografou Polytechnic Campus ring road was put into use, following the completion of the asphalt paving restoration works. It is noted that this section was the most damaged and that its restoration was carried out according to modern specifications and with a better asphalt quality category. Pavement Engineering Laboratory and […]

Ms. Anastasia Pneumatikou, Head of Traffic Planning & Studies of Nea Odos, Central Greece Road lecture, December 2024

Ms. Anastasia Pneumatikou, Head of Traffic Planning and Studies of the Nea Odos company, Central Greece road, gave a lecture entitled: “Road Safety in practice: The case of PATHE (Transformation of Skarfeia)”  which took place on Monday December 16th at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA.

ECTRI General Assembly Meeting, NTUA, Athens, November 2024

The 2024 Autumn General Assembly of the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) took place with great success in Athens, Greece on November 25 & 26, 2024, hosted by the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

George Υannis – 30 Marathons in 30 months to actively promote the adoption of 30 km/h speed limit in cities

George Yannis, Professor and Director of the Department of Transportation Planning Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), has successfully completed on Sunday 10 November 2024 in Athens his campaign to run 30 Marathons in 30 months in order to promote the 30km/h speed limit in cities […]

Prof. Peter Savolainen lecture in NTUA, November 11th 2024

Peter Savolainen, Research Foundation Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University, gave a lecture which took place on Monday, November 11th 2024 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, entitled “Relating Available Stopping Sight Distance to Crash Risks: Insights from […]

Diploma theses Exams, October 2024

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of July 2024  took place with great success on on Tuesday October 29th, Wednesday October 30th and Monday November 4th 2024, at Railways Amphitheatre.

NTUA Professors among the top 2% researchers in the world, November 2024

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 1,019 Greek scientists are contained in the global top 2%, among which 159 researchers from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). 25 Professors from the School of Civil […]

Eva Michelaraki defended her Phd thesis on improving driver safety tolerance zone, October 2024

Eva Michelaraki defended her PhD thesis titled “Improving driver safety tolerance zone through holistic analysis of road, vehicle and behavioural risk factors” on Thursday October 3rd 2024 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 link: https://centralntua.webex.com/meet/geyannis This PhD thesis […]

Eng. Roberto Ventura lecture in NTUA, October 2nd 2024

Eng. Roberto Ventura, Assistant Professor at the University of Brescia (Italy), gave a lecture which took place on Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, entitled “Traffic Hazard on Main Road Bridges: Real-Time Evaluation and Management of the Risk Related to […]

Traffic sings restoration at NTUA Zografou Campus, August 2024

During summer holidays, the restoration of the traffic signs of the central part of the road network of NTUA Zografou campus was completed. A total of: 90 signs marking dangerous places, 125 regulatory signs and 3 convex mirrors were installed with galvanized metal poles. The traffic signs have been placed according to Road Design Guidelines […]

PhD Research Assistant positions in Civil Engineering at University of Kentucky, August 2024

The Department of Civil Engineering at University of Kentucky is seeking highly motivated PhD-level Research Assistants (RAs) for a major interdisciplinary project titled “Physical Modeling of Hillslope Response to Climate Forcings”. Candidates should have a Master’s degree in civil engineering or an equivalent, with a degree concentration in landslide or other natural hazard engineering, or geotechnical engineering with […]

Diploma Theses Exams, July 2024

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of of July 2024 took place with greate success on Wednesday July 17th, Thursday July 18th and Friday July 19th 2024, at Railways Amphitheatre. The students which defended their theses are as follows:

Educational Visit to Polis Park Parking Lot, Athens, May 2024

As part of the educational activities of the transportation engineering cycle of the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA, an educational visit was held to Polis Park Parking Lot, Children’s Hospital Square (Goudi) on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. During the visit the students of the 8th semester had the opportunity to learn about the basic issues […]