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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

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

Past EPFL PhD Students

Yuxuan Ji, Burak Boyaci, Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei, Nan Zheng, Mehmet Yildirimoglu, Mohammadreza Saeedmanesh, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte, Isik Ilber Sirmatel, Claudia Bongiovanni, Leonardo Bellocchi, Martin Jean Marie Joseph Repoux, Mikhail Murashkin, Semin Kwak, Dimitrios Tsitsokas, Caio Vitor Beojone, Patrick Stokkink, Pengbo Zhu, Sohyeong Kim, Lynn Fayed, Georg Anagnostopoulos, Marko Maljkovic

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Sofia Samoili

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.

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

Transportation economics

CIVIL-455

The scope of the lecture is to provide the basic concepts in transport economics and introduce new ones for private and public transport and environmental issues. Demand, supply, welfare analysis and regulation will be illustrated.