Transportation Engineering Laboratory
E-mail:
este@civ.uth.gr
Webpage:
http://www.este.civ.uth.gr
Department:
- Department of Civil Engineering
Tel.:
+30 24210 74133
The Transportation Engineering Laboratory, established in 2005, aims at the enforcement of the educational and research activities and the encouraging of close cooperation with other laboratories and research institutes. Among the objectives of the laboratory are a) the support of undergraduate/postgraduate educational and research programs, b) the guidance and supervision of doctoral research of methodological, theoretical, scientific and technical content in the transport sector, c) the cooperation with research centers and technological organizations in Greece and abroad, d) the organization of seminars and conferences for the continuous training of the academic personnel and students, e) scientific publications and books.
Research Activities:
Traffic studies and other surveys.
Analysis and formulation of transport policies.
Development and implementation of advanced transport technologies.
Road safety.
User behavior analysis.
Transportation and traffic management.
Transport systems design.
Freight transport and logistics.
Public transport.
Feasibility and variability studies.
Modeling and application of advanced computational methods in transportation.
Innovative design and operation of new or upgraded urban transport interchanges.
Research Projects:
Intelligent management system of urban mobility for the improvement of the urban environment in the urban complex of Volos.
Road transport with focus on safe design and environmental authorization. Emphasis on new European Directives 2008/96/ΕC, ΕΝ1317, 2020/49/EC και 54/2004.
International scientific study on Transport Corridor Management.
1st Hellenic Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility (14/12/2012).
TTRANS – Enhancing the transfer of Intelligent Transportation System innovations to the market.
HR–Croatia: Technical assistance for Management of IPA/SF Operational Programme –Publication ref EuropeAid/132567/D/SER/HR.
City–HUB.
Project–Level Traffic Forecasting Guidelines.
Promotion of road safety and safe–driving public awareness in Greece and Bulgaria and the cross–border area – PROMO SAFE DRIVING.
STRAtegies and measures for smarter urban freight SOLutions – STRAIGHTSOL.
Connecting LOng and Short–distance networks for Efficient tRnsport – CLOSER.
Design and implementation of road safety activities.
"Dissemination actions" in the framework of the research project "Campaigns and Awareness–raising Strategies in Traffic Safety – CAST".
"Evaluation of the Greek road safety campaign CAST» in the framework of the research project "Campaigns and Awareness–raising Strategies in Traffic Safety – CAST".
Campaigns and Awareness–raising Strategies in Traffic Safety – CAST.
Development of Small and Medium size railway stations into multipurpose local service centers – REVITA.
Strengthening the administrative capacity of Cyprus Ports Authority.
Study on the management of the transit of dangerous goods through tunnels of the highway Athens–Patra, Aktio–Preveza and Katerini.
Integrated Road Safety Systems, with the application of advanced driver monitoring, warning and information technologies (OSOA–3P) – PENED 2003.
Human network for the integration and promotion of road safety.
Feasibility study on improvement works of the Port of Volos.
Feasibility study on the development of suburban–interurban shipping system in the Pagasitikos bay.
Laboratory Infrastructure:
Seven PCs.
1 inkjet A3.
1 scanner A4.
Digitizer.
Drive state station (seeing machines).
Video processing equipment for eye tracking.
Driving simulator station (STISIM Drive M100).
EMME.
VISUM.
CUBE.
AIMSUN.
PARAMICS.
VISSIN.
TORA.
AUTOCAD.
ARCINFO, ARCVIEW.
SPSS.
MATHEMATICA 5.2.
MATLAB 5.2.
MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODELS (A-LOGIT).
NEURAL NETWORKS AND DEVELOPED ALGORITHS BY THE LABORATORY’S STAFF (DRIVER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS).
Research Results / Products:
Transport Corridor Management Structure.
Innovative design and operation of new or upgraded urban transport interchanges: Conceptual framework – key intermodality factors.
Education material for the promotion of road safety and safe-driving public awareness.
Urban freight and urban-interurban interfaces - Best practices, implications and future needs.
Emerging mobility trends and schemes in freight and passenger transportation.
Interconnections between short and long-distance transport networks: Structure of interface and existing indicators.
Core indicators for the interconnection between short and long-distance transport networks.
Analysis of the decision-making framework in short-long distance transport networks.
Recommendations for the development of coherent decision- making processes in the interconnection of long and short-distance transport networks.
Guidance and recommendations for interconnection between long distance and local/regional passenger transport.
Guidance and recommendations for interconnection between long distance and local/regional freight transport.
Decision-making guidebook for the interconnection between short and long-distance transport networks.
Road user model and persuasion techniques.
Evaluation tool for road safety campaigns.
Reporting tool for effects of single campaign.
A theoretical approach to assess road safety campaigns: evidence from seven European countries.
Manual for designing, implementing and evaluating road safety communication campaigns.
Manual for designing, implementing and evaluating road safety communication campaigns (abridged verion).
Pan-European road safety campaign evaluation.
Traffic management optimization through the driver behavior and traffic simulation.
Drivers’ drowsiness detection system with eye image processing.
Training plan for the manpower of Cyprus Ports Authority.
System design and software development for the transportation of dangerous goods through tunnels of the highway Athens-Patra, Aktio-Preveza and Katerini.
Advanced incident management and tolling enforcement systems based on image processing and video.
Personnel:
| First Name | Last Name | Position | Telephone | Web-link | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eftihia | Nathanail | Director | enath@uth.gr | +30 24210 74164 | |
Ioannis | Adamos | Researcher | giadamos@civ.uth.gr | +30 24210 74158 | |
Michail | Gogas | Researcher | mikegogas@certh.gr | +30 24210 74158 | |
Panagiotis | Kottas | Researcher | kottasp@gmail.com | +30 24210 74158 | |
Konstantinos | Papoutsis | Researcher | kpapoutsis@uth.gr | +30 24210 74158 | |
Charalambos | Petamidis | Researcher | chpetami@civ.uth.gr | +30 24210 74158 | |
Maria | Tsami | Researcher | marttsami@gmail.com | +30 24210 74158 |
