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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

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

Past EPFL PhD Students

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

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Sofia Samoili (2015)

Courses

Diversity and Sustainability in Human Mobility

HUM-124

Human and freight mobility in large cities is a complex process with dense population and many transport modes to compete for limited space. New emerging modes of transport, such as on-demand services, and new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, create additional opportunities and challenges.

Fundamentals of traffic operations and control

CIVIL-457

The objectives of this course are to present the major elements of traffic operations and to develop basic skills in applying the fundamentals of traffic analysis and control. Students should be able to start applying these skills to model different aspects of congestion in urban systems.

Future Urban Mobility Systems

CIVIL-415

This course introduces future urban mobility systems from a data-driven perspective, covering mobility data ecosystems, sensing technologies, information extraction, traffic state and performance analysis, forecasting, control, active sensing, digital twins, and emerging smart-mobility applications.

Traffic engineering

CIVIL-349

Introduce the major elements of transportation systems and traffic engineering: develop analytical and technical skills in applying the fundamentals of the transport field; understand the key concepts and physics of the transport phenomena;connect with real transportation problems and data analytics