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The NTUA Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering organised with great success a Scientific Workshop titled “Telematics and Driver Behaviour” which took place at the Amphitheater of Railways and Transport on April 4th, 2023. The Workshop was also available through Webex (https://centralntua.webex.com/wbxmjs/joinservice/sites/centralntua/meeting/download/764247dcf2d84520bdf1f583cef8bd96?siteurl=centralntua&MTID=mc22901c36e31c169cd8657a9e19d822c). Read more

The Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of Civil Engineering School at the National Technical University of Athens was ranked 4th in Europe this year and 26th worldwide among all Transportation Departments, with the best performance among all NTUA and Greek Universities Departments. This ranking is produced by EduRank‘s final score based on three parts: 45% Research performance, 45% Non-academic prominence and 10% Alumni score. Departments’ Director George Yannis stated that: “the persistence in scientific excellence of our highly qualified transportation engineers contributes to a future with efficient, green and safe transport systems in Greece, in Europe and globally”. 

The global publisher Springer published recently the Book Public Transport Optimization written by NTUA Assistant Professor Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis. Read more

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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 the Traffic Management Center of New Attiki Odos on Monday, December 19th, 2022. During the visit the students of the 7th semester had the opportunity to be informed about the basic traffic issues of the operation of Attiki Odos and to understand in practice the application of the theory of traffic engineering.

NTUA Professor George Yannis has received the prestigious EU TRAVisions 2022 Senior Researcher Award during the European Commission Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA 2022), held on 14-17 November 2022 in Lisbon. Professor  George Yannis won the competition of EU Senior Researcher for Road Transport Research based on his exceptional and long-standing research contribution on Open Road Safety Decision Support Systems. 

The Research Infrastructure EN.I.R.R.I.S.T. successfully organized ENARISTEIA 2022, a three-day event that took place from 24 to 26 October 2022 at the Eugenides Foundation in Athens. Representatives from institutions and the official state, academics and business executives of Shipping, Transport and Supply Chain, had the opportunity to learn about the high quality scientific work that the Research Infrastructure will soon complete and the positive impact that it can have on the field of research and the adoption of innovative practices by the State and businesses. 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 2022 took place with grate success on Thursday July 14th 2022 and Friday July 15th 2022 via a teleconference using the application Cisco Webex (https://www.webex.com/). Read more

The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), in cooperation with the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) organized the 8th Road Safety & Simulation International Conference 2022 (RSS2022) which took place with great success on  June 8th to June 10th 2022 in Athens, Greece. The Conference’s theme this year was: “Road Safety and Digitalisation” https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/rss2022/