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Nikolaos Geroliminis

nikolas.geroliminis@epfl.ch

Nationality: Greek

EPFL ENAC IIC LUTS
GC C2 383 (Bâtiment GC)
Station 18
1015 Lausanne

Mission

Traffic congestion is increasing in major cities. The construction of new infrastructure is not a feasible solution to decrease congestion. My research to date has focused on developing more sustainable transportation systems by improving the use of existing facilities. Specific areas of research include modeling and estimation of travel times and other performance measures in arterials; location of emergency response vehicles in transportation networks; urban transportation and gridlock in cities.
Prof. Nikolas Geroliminis is a Full Professor at EPFL and the head of the Urban Transport Systems Laboratory (LUTS). Before joining EPFL he was an Assistant Professor on the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He has a diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from University of California, Berkeley.  His research interests focus primarily on urban transportation systems, traffic flow theory and control, public transportation and on-demand transport,Optimization and Large Scale Networks. Among his recent initiatives is the creation of open-science large-scale datasets of naturalistic urban trajectories of half a million vehicles that have been collected by one-of-a-kind experiments by a swarm of drones. Among other editorial responsibilities, he is currently the Editor-In-Chief of Transportation Research part C: Emerging Technologies.

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Weijiang Xiong, Marko Susnjar, Batuhan Avci, Ran Chen, Yura Tak, Yasaman Zolfimoselo

Past EPFL PhD Students

Yuxuan Ji (2014), Burak Boyaci (2014), Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei (2014), Nan Zheng (2014), Mehmet Yildirimoglu (2015), Mohammadreza Saeedmanesh (2018), Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte (2018), Isik Ilber Sirmatel (2020), Claudia Bongiovanni (2020), Leonardo Bellocchi (2020), Martin Jean Marie Joseph Repoux (2021), Mikhail Murashkin (2021), Semin Kwak (2022), Dimitrios Tsitsokas (2022), Caio Vitor Beojone (2023), Patrick Stokkink (2023), Pengbo Zhu (2025), Sohyeong Kim (2025), Lynn Fayed (2025), Minru Wang (2026), Georg Anagnostopoulos (2026), Marko Maljkovic (2025)

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Sofia Samoili (2015)