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The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is organizing a Workshop titled “Endurance Sports: How to Achieve My ‘Unbelievable’ Goals” which will take place in Athens, Greece on 6 November 2026. This Workshop addresses endurance sports for engineers through three axes: training, nutrition and psychology. Faculty members and students of the NTUA community are expected to present and discuss about long-distance and endurance sports for engineers, as well as achieving “impossible” goals. George Yannis, Professor of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA, will contribute his experiences on running 85 Marathons and his personal 30 Marathons in 30 months Campaign to promote the adoption of city-wide 30km/h speed limits. Programme can be found here 

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of October 2026 will take place on Friday October 30th, Wednesday November 4th, Monday November 9th and on Tuesday November 10th 2026, at Railways Amphitheatre according to the following schedule.

Exams Program 

Phd Candidate Vassilios Matragos defended his PhD thesis titled: “Trajectory Modeling of Overtaking Maneuvers Based on the Interaction between Road Geometry and Vehicle Dynamics” on  Friday October 9th 2026 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 the following link::

https://teams.live.com/meet/9387232575332?p=i0Nf3U1sH7XHNOPoW0

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Assist. Professor at the University of Maribor, Chiara Gruden gave a lecture titled “Pedestrian behavior and urban safety” on Tuesday, September 22th 2026 at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of NTUA. Read more

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of July 2026 took place with greate success on Thursday July 16th, Friday July 17th and Tuesday July 21st 2026, at Railways Amphitheatre.

The students which defended their theses are as follows: Read more

The international book Public Transport Optimization (https://lnkd.in/dJAjuqpf) written by NTUA Assistant Professor Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, is now available in Greek from Tziolas Publications  (https://lnkd.in/d8JjTfPP). The book is already in Eudoxus (EUDOXUS CODE: 133044998) with the aim of holistic teaching of the undergraduate course “Public Transport” at the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA, as well as postgraduate courses in Urban Transport Design and Transport Systems Optimization.

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The International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group (IRTAD) of the International Transport Forum (ITF/OECD), the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) co-organized with great success the 8th IRTAD International Conference: Better Road Safety Data for Better Safety Performance which took place in Athens, Greece, on 15-17 April 2026, with the support of FERSI and ECTRI, under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. Read more

The examination of the Diploma Theses of the undergraduate students of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering for the examination period of March 2026 took place with greate success on Friday March 13th and on Friday March 20th 2026, at Railways Amphitheatre and at teaching room 109.

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Marios Sekadakis defended his PhD thesis titled “Safety Assessment and Behaviour Modelling of Take-Over Dynamics in Automated Driving: From Human Response to Network-Level Simulation” on Friday January 23th 2026 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 link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/31922864453540?p=g8I9Li0ETBpsmuJcaa

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