The Horizon Europe research project TRUST has recently released its 1st Newsletter, providing updates on the first year of activities of the project, which aims to grow a positive Traffic Safety Culture across Europe through a systematic transition towards shared responsibility for safe and sustainable mobility. The Newsletter highlights that TRUST project partners presented at two major road safety conferences: the IRTAD 2026 Conference in Athens and the TRA 2026 Conference in Budapest. It also announces the launch of the first episode of the TRUST Podcast, in which TRUST Advisory Board members discuss traffic safety culture, as well as upcoming pilot activities for testing TRUST interventions in secondary schools, exploring how different approaches can improve Traffic Safety Culture among young people. 
The EU funded research project DELPHI is organizing its Final Event which will take place in Athens, Greece on 18 June 2026. This Event will bring together transport stakeholders, researchers, policymakers, industry representatives and mobility experts to discuss the future of multimodal, sustainable and intelligent transportation systems, and will showcase the main achievements and results of the DELPHI project, highlighting innovative solutions for multimodal freight and passenger transport, AI-enabled traffic and mobility management, data interoperability, sustainable urban logistics, and collaborative transport ecosystems. The programme can be found here. Participation is free upon registration.
The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) organized with great success a Webinar titled “Bus Talks on Network Planning – Buses in 30km/h cities” which took place online, on 9 June 2026. This Event demystified the impacts of 30 km/h measures on bus networks through a combination of academic analysis and real-world operational outcomes. It explored how such environments influence bus performance, including commercial speed, reliability and overall service quality. By bringing together research insights and practical case studies, the discussion highlighted both the challenges and the opportunities that 30 km/h policies create for bus operations across different urban contexts. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:
NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:
Engineers Australia organized with great success the Transport Conference 2026, which took place in Cairns, Australia on 9-10 June 2026, under the theme “Access all areas“. This Conference brought together engineers, leading professionals, innovators and decision-makers from across the transport sector, championing the creation of inclusive, equitable, and resilient transport systems. The Conference featured a dynamic program of invited speakers, thought-provoking discussions, gala dinner and real-world insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping Australia’s transport future. 
NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:
NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:
The Foundation VINCI Autoroutes recently published the results of the 16th Euro-Barometer for Responsible Driving by Ipsos BVA, in which representative attitudes of Europeans at the wheel are recorded, enabling also the monitoring of the evolution of risky driving and good practices to better target prevention messages in European countries. According to this Study, Greece has the highest rate of drivers (89%) that fear aggressive behavior from other drivers (EU average 82%), while 76% of Greek drivers admit exceeding the speed limit by a few km/h. Furthermore, 66% of Greek drivers admit talking on the phone while driving and 37% of Greek drivers do not always wear their seatbelt, more than double the EU average of 17%.
NewsAuto organized with great success the Road Safety Forum 2026, which was held in Athens, Greece on 4 June 2026, under the theme “The Next Day of Road Safety in Greece“. The goal of this Event was to highlight best practices and recommendations that can contribute to safer travel for everyone. Government representatives, road safety organizations, automotive industry executives, transportation experts, and journalists discussed the challenges and solutions that can help reduce road crashes. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:
The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is organizing the Annual Road Safety Performance Index Conference, which will take place in Brussels, on 23 June 2026. During the Event, ETSC will present the findings of the PIN Annual Report looking at progress in reducing road deaths and serious injuries across all PIN countries. ETSC will also present the PIN Award to a country for its outstanding progress in improving road safety. Finally, a high-level panel discussion will consider, at the mid-point through the decade, what needs to be done to achieve the road safety targets set for 2030. Registration is available here. The programme can be found here.
The European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (ACEM) recently published a Guide titled “Rightsizing Urban Mobility: The L-Category integration guide for European cities“. This hands-on guide focuses on helping local authorities close that gap and reflect L-category vehicles: mopeds, motorcycles, tricycles and quadricycles, within their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). The Guide provides cities with evidence-based recommendations across three interconnected action fields: mobility, safety, recognizing riders as vulnerable road users, and environment, and includes a comprehensive annex of actionable policy measures that cities can implement without major infrastructure investment. The evidence highlights that 10% shift from cars to L-category vehicles could cut congestion by nearly 40%, benefiting all road users, while four motorcycles fit in a single car parking bay, freeing space for pedestrians, businesses and greenery.
The Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG Move) of the European Commission recently published a Report, assessing the current state of cycling within the European Union. This Study identified over 900,000 km of cycling paths and lanes network at EU level, providing a first comparable EU overview of the network accessible to cyclists, and found that almost 24% of EU residents cycle at least once per week, while bike sharing services are present in the vast majority of EU cities with over 150,000 inhabitants, corresponding to a fleet size of about 300,000 bikes. The study includes findings and recommendations on the methodology for the current and future collection of cycling data in the EU, as well as 27 country fiches with a detailed overview for each country.
The 10th Road Safety & Simulation International Conference 2026 (RSS2026) hosted by the University of Naples Federico II will be held in Napoli, on 23-26 June 2026, under the theme “Advancing Towards the Safe System Approach”. The Conference aims to explore how the Safe System Approach has been embraced by the transportation community as an effective way to prevent fatalities and serious injuries on our roadways. Researchers can register here. Programme can be found here.
The NTUA research team will contribute actively by presenting 15 papers.
The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) is organizing the 17th World Conference on Transport Research which will be held in Toulouse, France, on 6-10 July 2026. For the last 40 years, WCTR has been organized every three years by the WCTR Society, uniting specialists from the transportation sector worldwide. Topics for discussion at the World Conference on Transport Research are grouped into 9 distinct themes which include maritime and air transport logistics, infrastructure design, traffic management in urban environments or the emergence of transport in developing countries. Researchers can register here. Programme can be found here.
The NTUA research team will contribute actively by presenting 8 papers and a key note speech.
CIVITAS is organizing the CIVITAS Forum 2026 which will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece on 15-17 September 2026, under the theme “Roots & Routes: Moving Forward to Competitive, Connected and Resilient Urban Mobility”. Since 2003, the CIVITAS Forum has been a dynamic Conference for smart, inclusive and sustainable urban mobility, welcoming city representatives, policymakers, practitioners, planners, academics and mobility enthusiasts from across Europe and beyond. The programme structured around three umbrella topics: competitive, connected and resilient mobility, covering areas such as public transport innovation, shared mobility and micromobility, Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM), active mobility, Vision Zero and safe streets for all. Programme is available here. Registration is open until 15 September 2026.
The World Road Association (PIARC) is organizing with the XXVIIIth World Road Congress, which will take place on 4-8 October 2027, in Vancouver, Canada. The Congress will cover a wide range of topics, including Governance and Roads Administration, Mobility, Safety and Sustainability, Resilient Infrastructure, Cross-cutting issues, and Special and emerging topics. The event will bring together more than 4,000 transportation professionals from around the world to share knowledge, network and engage in business opportunities. This Event is perfect for professionals to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the road transport sector and to gain valuable insights from leading experts. Researches can submit their abstracts until 31 August 2026.
Micromobility Industries organized with great success the Micromobility Europe 2026 Conference, which took place in Berlin, Germany on 2-3 June 2026. This Event was jam-packed with opportunities to ride the most innovative new electric scooters, bikes, boards, and buggies, as well as to explore the key issues that are redefining urban mobility. The Conference brought together industry-defining founders, funders, brands, manufacturers, cities, startups, operators, developers and influencers for two days of meetings, talks, demos and first looks at new products, featuring more than 75 world-class speakers and more than 1,200 attendees.
The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) is organizing the Velo-city Conference 2026 which will take place in Rimini, Italy on 16-19 June 2026, under the theme “Delivering the Urban Dream”. This Conference will focus on reshaping cities to improve quality of life and to strengthen climate resilience. Velo-city Conferences are now attracting about 1,600 delegates from more than 60 different countries. As the flagship Event of the European Cyclists’ Federation, Velo-city plays a vital role in promoting cycling as a sustainable and healthy means of transport for all. Programme is available here. Registration is available here.
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) recently published a report titled “Mapping the Automated Mobility Ecosystem: Landscape and Key Developments“, drawing on data from the European CCAM Observatory. This Report presents a landscape analysis, covering 122 automated mobility services and mapping 1,940 component–supplier pairs across 937 unique companies operating in 12 technology categories, examining the geographic distribution of service deployments, the composition and sourcing patterns of technology stacks, and the structure of the industrial ecosystem underpinning automated driving. Furthermore, a dedicated assessment of Europe’s position reveals that EU-based suppliers account for approximately 18% of all mapped component–supplier pairs and 165 unique companies, with relative strengths in connectivity, cybersecurity, and V2X communication, but notable gaps in software-intensive categories such as AI and planning, cloud infrastructure, and ADS development. Moreover, the findings are intended to support evidence-based policymaking on the competitiveness and strategic autonomy of the European CCAM sector.
The European Commission and the Hungarian Public Roads together with the European Transport Research Platforms ACARE, ALICE, CEDR, ECTP, ERRAC, ERTRAC, ETRA and Waterborne organized with great success the Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA2026) which took place in Budapest, Hungary on 18-21 May 2026. The Conference aimed to advance sustainable, inclusive, and innovative transportation solutions under the theme “ReGeneration in Transport“.
NTUA actively contributed with 32 innovative presentations:
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Modeling Determinants of Sustainable Travel Behavior: A Multivariate Regression Approach - Predicting driver behaviour in a cross-country naturalistic driving study using machine learning techniques
- Factors Influencing Speed Limit Violations on Athens Road Network
- Classifying and Predicting Urban Traffic States Based on Temporal and Weather Conditions
- Investigation of Illegal Pedestrian Crossings at Crosswalks in the Center of Athens, Greece
- Investigation of Non-Compliant Pedestrian Crossings at Signalized Intersections Using Computer Vision Techniques
- A Dual Graph Framework for Edge Embedding and Clustering in Road Safety Analysis
- Lane Segmentation from Street-Level Imagery via Noisy Label Generation and Contrastive Self-Supervision
- Self-Supervised Detection of Harsh Cornering Events at Scale using Smartphone Sensor Data
- From Trend Observation to Risk Interpretation: A Machine Learning Analysis of Micromobility Injury Severity in 2022
- CulturalRoad: A Five-Pillar Framework for Equitable CCAM Implementation Across Europe
- Enhancing Risky Driving Behavior Classification Using Conditional GANs (cGANs): A Data Augmentation Approach
- Understanding speeding through Key Performance Indicators
- Testing of KPIs for the enforcement of traffic regulations
- Investigation of Traffic Safety Culture among Greek drivers
- Advancing Traffic Safety Culture: Developing a Conceptualisation of Cultural Maturity Among Traffic Safety Stakeholders
- TRUST – growing a positive Traffic Safety Culture in the EU
- Exploring the Complex Influences on Sustainable Driving: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach with Multisource Data
- Fuel-based Trip-level Behavior Optimization Employing Metaheuristics
- Video-Based Analysis of Pedestrian Behaviour in Contrasting Greek Urban Environments Using Smartphone Cameras
- A Literature Review on Techniques for Describing and Modelling the Interaction Between Automated Vehicles and Pedestrians
- Assessing Traffic Safety of Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction at Intersections, Mid-Block Crossings and Jaywalking
- Structural equation model analysis for the identification of the Safety Tolerance Zone
- Predicting Conflict Severity and Safety Impacts of Automated Vehicles in Simulated Urban Networks
- Evaluating Safety Performance of Automated Shuttles Through Hard Braking Analysis in European Urban Pilots
- Analyzing Harsh Events with Spatiotemporal Machine Learning Techniques using Mobile Data
- Understanding Behavioral Relapse in Driving: A Trip-Based Survival Analysis of Risk Indicators Post Feedback
- Comparative Analysis of Liability Frameworks for Automated Vehicles: Legal Readiness in the EU, US and China
- Investigating the Influence of Physical Fitness on Driving Performance and Road Safety
- A Hybrid Extreme Value Theory Framework for Adaptive Pedestrian Crash Risk Estimation
- RSImpact: A global road safety impact model for policy assessment
- MetaCCaze – Flexibly adapted MetaInnovations to accelerate deployment of smart and shared Zero Emission mobility
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the City of Athens organized with great success the 2026 UCI Mobility & Bike City Forum, which took place in Athens, on 10-11 May 2026. The programme covered a range of themes central to the development of cycling worldwide, including (1) Strengthening cycling tourism: emerging trends and successful approaches, (2) Urban mobility strategies: integrating cycling into city planning, (3) Cycling events as drivers of sustainable sport tourism and impact and (4) Global road safety: collaborative approaches for safer cycling. NTUA actively participated and contributed in the panel discussion entitled “Global road safety: collaborative approaches for safer cycling”, showcasing experiences in holistic safety gained from the PHOEBE project.
A Paper titled Learning-based methods for spatial road safety analysis using in-vehicle telematics data: A systematic review authored by Simone Paradiso, Apostolos Ziakopoulos and George Yannis has been published in Journal of Safety Research. This Paper presents a structured review of the existing literature at the intersection of learning-based methods, spatial analysis, and surrogate safety measures derived from in-vehicle telematics data, following PRISMA guidelines, where 44 studies were identified and analyzed. The studies were analyzed and narratively synthesized focusing on data collection methods, feature engineering processes, and their implications on the selection of the spatial scale, with methods ranging from traditional econometrics to cutting-edge deep learning techniques. The findings suggest that advancements in AI and telematics data are reshaping road safety research, providing new tools to interpret safety analyses and generate actionable insights, while clarifying the relationships among data sources, feature selection, and spatial scale would strengthen the analytical framework and improve understanding for safer mobility. 
