LαΒ for Transport Engineering

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Position: Doctoral Candidate
Building: Panepistimiou Avenue, 2109 Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Biography:
Vana Gkania (Female) is a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Transportation Engineering, UCY, and a Ph.D. Candidate in UCY’s Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests include intelligent transportation systems, mobility patterns and big-data analytics. Prior to enrolling at the University of Cyprus (2015), she had received her Diploma in Civil Engineering and her M.Sc. in Planning, Organization and Management of Transport Systems both at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and she had worked in the private sector as a field engineer and as a research associate.

Research Interests:

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Mobility Patterns

Big-Data Analytics

Travel Time Reliability

Publications:

Dynamic Short-Term Projections of Travel Time Distributions Based on Heterogeneous Traffic Data
Vana Gkania, Loukas Dimitriou (2017)

Dynamic Short-Term Projections of Travel Time Distributions in Urban Signalized Networks utilizing Composite Information of Traffic Characteristics
Loukas Dimitriou, Vana Gkania (2016)

Dynamic Estimation of Optimal Dispatching Locations for Taxi Services in Mega-Cities based on Detailed GPS Information
Loukas Dimitriou, Elena Kourti, Christina Christodoulou, Vana Gkania (2016)

Adaptive short term prediction of freeways travel time distributions based on multivariate hazard models
Loukas Dimitriou, Vana Gkania (2016)

Prediction of traffic characteristics in smart cities based on deep learning mechanisms
V Gkania, L Dimitriou (2017)