Theodore Tsekeris

Research Fellow

Research Area: Transportation Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Network Economics and Equilibrium Models

Research Interests: Applied Econometrics and Computational Economics

Current research:

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Credentials

• Ph.D. in Transportation, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece (2004).

• M.Sc. and Diploma in Transportation, Imperial College, University of London, U.K. (1998).

• B.Eng. (Honours) in Civil Engineering, City University London, U.K. (1997).

Professional Experience

• Research Fellow in Transportation Economics, Centre for Planning and Economic Research (KEPE), Athens, Greece (since March 2006).

• Visiting Lecturer in the Postgraduate Program “Organizational and Economic Psychology”, Panteion University of Athens (acad. year 2008-2009).

• Adjunct Lecturer in Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly (acad. year 2008-2009).

• Senior Research Associate, Dept. Transportation Planning and Engineering, NTUA, Greece (since March 2006; Senior Researcher between June 2004 – February 2006).

• Research Assistant Specialist, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Berkeley, CA (October 2002 – March 2003).

Publications & Research Output

Refereed Articles in Journals

• “Short-term prediction of urban traffic variability: Stochastic volatility modeling approach.” (forthcoming). Journal of Transportation Engineering. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Dynamic analysis of air travel demand in competitive island markets.” (2009). Journal of Air Transport Management. 15 (6), 267-273.

• “Economy of information in congested transport systems.” (2009). IET Intelligent Transport Systems. 3 (3), 336-344. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Introduction to the feature issue on design and evaluation of road network pricing.” (2009). Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking. 10 (1), 1-4.

• “Design and evaluation of road pricing: State–of-the-art and methodological advances.” (2009). Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking. 10 (1), 5-52. (Co-authored with S. Voβ.)

• “Evolutionary game-theoretic model for dynamic congestion pricing in multi-class traffic networks.” (2009). Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking. 10 (1), 103-121. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.)

• “Joint design and pricing of urban highways with spatial and user group heterogeneity.” (2009). Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking. 10 (1), 141-160. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Consumer demand analysis of complementarity-substitution relationships among passenger transport modes in Greece.” (2008). International Journal of Transport Economics. 35 (3), 415-449.

• “The Athens Dynamic Traffic Map for multimodal travel information services.” (2008). Journal of Maps. v2008, 119-133. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Fuzzy modeling approach for combined forecasting of urban traffic flow.” (2008). Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 23 (7), 521-535. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos and L. Dimitriou.)

• “Social simulations from a reflexive epistemological standpoint.” (2008). American-Eurasian Journal of Scientific Research. 3 (1), 92-96. (Co-authored with Ch. Tsekeris and Ι. Katerelos.)

• “Treating uncertain demand information in origin-destination matrix estimation with traffic counts.” (2008). Journal of Transportation Engineering. 134 (8), 327-337. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Modeling participation and consumption in the Greek inter-urban public transportation market.” (2008). Journal of Public Transportation. 11 (2), 85-104. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.)

• “Adaptive hybrid fuzzy rule-based system approach for modeling and predicting urban traffic flow.” (2008). Transportation Research Part C. 16 (5), 554-573. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Reliable stochastic design of road network systems.” (2008). International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering. 3 (5), 549-574. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Real-time traffic volatility forecasting in urban arterial networks.” (2006). Transportation Research Record. 1964, 146-156. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Measuring variability in urban traffic flow by use of principal component analysis.” (2006). Journal of Transportation and Statistics. 9 (1), 49-62. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Methodology for processing archived ITS data for reliability analysis in urban networks.” (2006). IEE Proceedings Intelligent Transport Systems. 153 (1), 105-112. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Gravity models for dynamic transport planning: development and implementation in urban networks.” (2006). Journal of Transport Geography. 14 (2), 152-160. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Comment on short-term arterial travel time prediction for advanced traveler information systems.” (2006). Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 10 (1), 41-43.

• “Demand-oriented approach to estimate the operational performance of urban networks with and without traffic information provision.” (2005). European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 5 (2), 81-96. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Discussion of multiple-vehicle origin-destination matrix estimation from traffic counts using genetic algorithm.” (2005). Journal of Transportation Engineering. 131 (10), 809-810. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Methodology for validating dynamic origin-destination matrix estimation models with implications for advanced traveler information systems.” (2005). Transportation Planning and Technology. 28 (2), 93-112. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Quasidynamic network assignment procedure with transient demand matrices.” (2005). Journal of Transportation Engineering. 131 (2), 89-100. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Enhanced dynamic origin-destination matrix updating with long-term flow information.” (2004). Transportation Research Record. 1882, 159-166. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for the simultaneous optimization of the O-D trip matrix estimation.” (2004). Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 19 (6), 421-435. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Real-time dynamic origin-destination matrix adjustment with simulated and actual link flows in urban networks.” (2003). Transportation Research Record. 1857, 117-127. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Framework for analysing reliability and information degradation of demand matrices in extended transport networks.” (2003). Transport Reviews. 23 (1), 89-103. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

Contributions in Collective Volumes

• “Fixed and variable toll pricing in road networks with direct search metaheuristics.” (2009). In Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Edited by M. Geiger et al. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 45-61. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.)

• “Combined genetic computation of microscopic trip demand in urban networks.” (2008). In Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Edited by A. Fink and F. Rothlauf. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer, 3-21. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Genetically optimized infrastructure design strategies in degradable transport networks.” (2008). In Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Edited by A. Fink and F. Rothlauf. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer, 23-43. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Genetic computation of road network design and pricing Stackelberg games with multi-class users.” (2008). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4974. Edited by Giacobini et al. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 669-678. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Simultaneous origin-destination matrix estimation in dynamic traffic networks with evolutionary computing.” (2007). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4448. Edited by Giacobini et al. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 668–677. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Evolutionary combinatorial programming for discrete road network design with reliability requirements.” (2007). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4448. Edited by Giacobini et al. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 678–687. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Transport and Virtual Technologies.” (2007) In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by G. Ritzer. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell-Wiley Publishing, Blackwell Reference Online 2009 Update. (Co-authored with Ch. Tsekeris)

• “Transport and Development.” (2007) In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by G. Ritzer. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell-Wiley Publishing, Blackwell Reference Online 2009 Update.

Books, Monographs

• Analysis of Reliability and Degradation of Dynamically Estimated Origin-Destination Matrices in Large-Scale Transportation Networks. [In Greek: Ανάλυση της Αξιοπιστίας – Αλλοίωσης των Δυναμικά Εκτιμώμενων Μητρώων Προέλευσης–Προορισμού σε Εκτεταμένα Δίκτυα Μεταφορών.] (2004). Ph.D. dissertation. National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

• Dynamic Analysis of Land Use Effects on Travel Demand in London between 1971-1991. (1998). Master’s thesis. Imperial College, University of London, U.K.

Contributions in KEPE Collaborations regarding Development Plans and related projects

• Shipping – Transport: Sectoral Contribution to the Greek Economy and Medium-Term Prospects. [In Greek: Ναυτιλία – Μεταφορές: Η Συμβολή του Τομέα στην Ελληνική Οικονομία, Μεσοπρόθεσμες Προοπτικές.] (2008). The study was coordinated by S. Spathi. Athens: Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance.

• Study for the Determinant Factors of Import and Export Trade Performances of Greece: Econometric Analysis. [In Greek: Μελέτη για τους Προσδιοριστικούς Παράγοντες των Εμπορευματικών Εισαγωγικών και Εξαγωγικών Επιδόσεων της Χώρας: Οικονομετρική Ανάλυση.] (2007). The study was coordinated by Dr. S. Savva-Balfoussias. Athens: Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Editor

• “Design and Evaluation of Road Network Pricing.” (2009). Netnomics, Springer.

Other Scholarly Publications

• “Methodology for estimating traffic network performance under routing information.” (2005). Technika Chronika – Part I. 25 (1), 87-101 (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos).

• “Design criteria of automatic control systems in urban traffic.” (2002). Bulletin of the Hellenic Association of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. 349, 56-63 (Co-authored with P. Paraskevopoulos).

Discussion Papers

• Public expenditure competition in the Greek transport sector: Inter-modal and spatial considerations. (KEPE Discussion Paper No. 101).

• Consumer demand analysis of complementarities and substitutions in the Greek passenger transport market. (KEPE Discussion Paper No. 94.)

Submitted for Publication

• ”Transport and Economy. Contribution, Trends and Prospects in Greece with Emphasis on Surface Transport.”  (Co-authored with A. Tsouma.)

• “Travel Consumption and Market Competition in Greece.”

• “The Role of Greece in the Development of Infrastructure Networks in Southeastern Europe.”

• “Greek airports: Efficiency Measurement and Analysis of Determinants.”

Research in Progress

• ”Public Expenditure Competition in the Greek Transport Sector.”

• ”Air Transport and Airport Efficiency in Greece.” (Co-authored with K. Vogiatzoglou.)

Presentations - Publications in International Conference Proceedings

•  “Road pricing: Implications for public transport.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Systems for Public Transport, Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong. (Co-authored with S. Voβ.)

•  “Models to predict traffic volatility in transportation networks.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Redondo Beach, California. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Intermodal competition of public investments in the transport sector.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 4th International Kuhmo–Nectar Conference on Transport and Urban Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen.

• “Road pricing – A survey.” (2008). In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies: Transportation and Management Science. Edited by Lo, H.P., Leung, S.C.H. and Tam, S.M.L. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, 495-504. (Co-authored with S. Voβ.)

• “Dynamic econometric analysis of freight transportation flow generation in Greece.” (2008). In Proceedings of the4th International Congress on Transportation Research in Greece. Hellenic Institute of Transport. Athens, Greece, 273-284. (Co-authored with A. Tsouma and S. Savva-Balfoussia.)

• “Elastic multi-user stochastic equilibrium toll design with direct search meta-heuristics.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 8th EU/MEeeting on Metaheuristics in the Service Industry. Edited by M.J. Geiger and W. Habenicht. University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, 9-16. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.)

• “Dynamic congestion pricing based on user-optimal stochastic learning models.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 4th International Kuhmo–Nectar Conference on Pricing, Financing, Regulating Transport Infrastructures and Services. University of Urbino, Italy. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.)

• “Models for surveillance of variability in motorway traffic flow.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 9th European Control Conference. European Union Control Association. Kos, Greece. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Road pricing and congestion pricing in urban freeways.” (2007). In Proceedings of the International Conference “Roads of the Future”. Greek Road Federation. Athens, Greece. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Telematics systems architecture and decision support in urban transportation networks.” (2007). In Proceedings of the International Conference “Roads of the Future”. Greek Road Federation. Athens, Greece. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Competitive network design in short-sea liner markets using agent-based game-theoretic models.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference “Competitiveness and Complementarity of Transport Modes - Perspectives for the Development of Intermodal Transport”. University of Aegean, Chios, Greece (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos).

• “Discrete choice modeling of the inter-urban public transportation demand of Greek households.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference “Competitiveness and Complementarity of Transport Modes - Perspectives for the Development of Intermodal Transport”. University of Aegean, Chios, Greece. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.)

• “Evolutionary game-theoretic model for performance reliability assessment of road networks.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability. The Hague, Netherlands (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos).  

• “Genetic algorithm-based micro-simulation approach for estimating turning proportions at signalized intersections.” (2006). In Proceedings of the 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems. Delft, The Netherlands, 159-164. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Real-time traffic volatility forecasting in urban arterial networks.” (2006). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Enhanced dynamic O-D matrix updating using long-term flow information.” (2004). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “On-line performance measurement models for urban arterial networks.” (2004). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Skabardonis.)

• “Long-term travel demand forecasting in general dynamic transportation networks.” (2003). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Real-time dynamic O-D matrix adjustment using simulated and actual link flows in urban-scale networks.” (2003). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Traffic control and demand profile changes: The case of Athens.” (2002). In Proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control 15th World Congress. 19. Edited by E.F Camacho, L. Basañez and J.A. de la Puente. Oxford: Elsevier. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Deterministic semi-dynamic network assignment model using transient O-D matrices.” (2002). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 81st Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “A comparison of metaheuristic approaches for estimating demand matrices in transport networks.” (2002). In Proceedings of the 1st International Congress on Transportation Research in Greece. Hellenic Institute of Transport. Athens, Greece, 24-36. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

Presentations - Publications in Other Conference Proceedings

•  “Household expenditures for transport in Greece: Inter-temporal evolution and interregional perspective.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 287-294.

•  “Public investment expenditures for transport in Greece: Inter-temporal evolution, interregional allocation and statistical analysis.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 295-302.

•  “Transport and regional economic development: Theoretical background and analytical framework.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 313-320.

•  “Reflexive influences on spatial planning.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 431-437. (Co-authored with Ch. Tsekeris.)

•  “Environmental and energy impacts of transport: International and domestic experiences and management policies.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 1065-1072. (Co-authored with A. Tsouma.)

Presentations in other Professional Meetings, Conferences, Workshops, Seminars

•  “Intra-sectoral competition model of fiscal externalities in Greek government transport investments.” 21st Conference of the Hellenic Operational Research Society, Athens, Greece (May, 2009.)

•  “Epistemological developments in social simulations.” 12th Panhellenic Conference of Psychological Research, Greek Psychological Association, University of Thessaly, Volos. (May, 2009.)

• “Determining patterns of transport market competition by a consumer demand system.” 20th Conference of the Hellenic Operational Research Society, Spetses, Greece. (June, 2008).

• “Methodology for monitoring and control of urban network traffic state using dynamic assignment procedures and demand constraints.” Workshop on Control Strategies for Networks and Traffic Signals, NTUA, Athens, Greece. (February, 2005) (Presented with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “Integrated framework for dynamic implementation and evaluation of routing information provision services in urban areas.” 2nd International Congress on Transportation Research in Greece, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Athens, Greece. (February, 2004) (Presented with A. Stathopoulos.)

• “On-line dynamic travel demand estimators for metropolitan areas.” UCTC 9th Annual Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. (February, 2003.)

• “Analysis of reliability and information degradation of time-dependent O-D matrices in large-scale networks.” Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. (January, 2003) (Presented with A. Stathopoulos.)

Other Professional Activities

Member of Editorial Boards

• Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

Assessor/Reviewer of Books - Monographs

• Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer.

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. (EvoTransLog Workshops)

• Centre for Planning & Economic Research.

• Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium, Portland State University, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and Oregon Institute of Technology.

Referee for Professional Journals

• Environment and Planning A

• Computers & Operations Research

• Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

• European Journal of Operational Research

• IET Intelligent Transport Systems

• Science and Engineering Ethics

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Transportation Research – Part C

• Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

• Transportation Research Record – Journal of the Transportation Research Board (Issues on Transportation Network Modeling, Traffic Flow Theory, and Paratransit)

• Journal of Transportation Engineering

• Journal of Airport Management

• Journal of Maps

• Journal of Transport Geography

Memberships

• Technical Chamber of Greece

• Hellenic Association of Civil Engineers

• Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers

• Hellenic Operational Research Society

• The Institute of Transport and Logistics, U.K.

• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

• Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) - Working Group on Metaheuristics (EU/ME) and Transportation (EWGT)

• Transportation Research Board (TRB) Network Equilibrium Modeling and Route Choice and Spatial Behavior subcommittees

• Transportation Science and Logistics Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

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