Publications de Dimitrios Efthymiou

Measuring the Effects of Economic Crisis on Users' Perceptions of Public Transport Quality

Research was conducted to measure the effects of the economic crisis on public transport quality, user satisfaction, and transit demand. The survey used in this research extended a research effort that began in 2008; the survey aimed to analyze the variabi ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Association Generation in Synthetic Population for Transportation Applications: Graph-Theoretic Solution

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Dimitrios Efthymiou, Paul Richard Anderson

The generation of synthetic populations through simulation methods is an important research topic and has a key application in agent-based modeling of transport and land use. The next step in this research area is the generation of complete synthetic house ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Multidimensional Indicator Analysis for Transport Policy Evaluation

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Dimitrios Efthymiou

The need for forecasting the direct and indirect effects of land use and transport policies on society, the environment, and the local economy has led to the development of integrated land use and transport (LUTI) models. The land use and transport policy ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Hard Shoulder Running Systems

André-Gilles Dumont, Sofia Samoili, Dimitrios Efthymiou

The use of Hard Shoulder Running (HSR) systems is a relatively recent control policy aiming to ameliorate traffic conditions in recurrent congested networks. This ITS strategy attracts researchers and practitioners interest, in an attempt to assess its imp ...

2014

Lane Flow Distribution Investigation of Hard Shoulder Running Freeways

André-Gilles Dumont, Sofia Samoili, Dimitrios Efthymiou

2013

Factors affecting the adoption of vehicle sharing systems by young drivers

Dimitrios Efthymiou

Transportation patterns in big cities are redefined by the growing trend of car ownership and usage costs (e.g. the initial cost of buying a car, the constantly growing fuel prices, additional maintenance and insurance costs and the increased parking deman ...

2013

Measuring the Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Location on Real Estate Prices and Rents. Investigating the Potential Current Impact of a Planned Metro Line

Dimitrios Efthymiou

2013

Investigation of Lane Flow Distribution on Hard Shoulder Running Freeways

André-Gilles Dumont, Sofia Samoili, Dimitrios Efthymiou

Responding to an impending demand growth at an existing reactive managed lane system, and in order to provide a timely and more effective temporary hard shoulder activation, short-term prediction models are developed. A lane-oriented attribute, namely the ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Short-Term Lane Flow Distribution Forecasting in Hard Shoulder Running Freeways

André-Gilles Dumont, Sofia Samoili, Dimitrios Efthymiou

2013

How do Transport Infrastructure and Policies Affect House Prices and Rents? Evidence from Athens, Greece

Dimitrios Efthymiou

The interaction between land use and transportation infrastructure is a topic that has been extensively researched and continues to be of interest as new underlying economic, infrastructure and environmental conditions emerge. In this research, the direct ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Short term prediction models and calibration for managed lanes

André-Gilles Dumont, Sofia Samoili, Dimitrios Efthymiou

2013

Spatially-aware optimal site selection. Method and Application in Mobility Center in Greece

Dimitrios Efthymiou

National Academy of Sciences2012