Annie Kortsari

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• Bachelor of Engineering
• Head of Laboratory for Multimodal and Railway Transport and Operations at Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

Multimodal Digital Mobility Services (MDMS) are defined as “systems providing information about the location of transport facilities, schedules, availability and fares, of more than one transport provider, to make reservations, payments or issue tickets”. Public transport (PT) is the backbone of a multimodal transport network and although, several...

In several urban areas, the scarcity of shared micromobility stations to serve first and last mile trips coupled with inadequate connections to public transport, limit access to a significant portion of the city's residents. While some dockless schemes are available, these primarily cater to the needs of those in the city center, leaving other area...

Shared travel offers an important way to increase the accessibility of rail services. However, providing an integrated shared travel capability for rail travel is both a conceptual and technical challenge. This paper presents an overview of Ride2Rail, enabling ‘Easy use for all’ of rail through ridesharing as part of a multimodal journey. Ride2Rail...

Ridesharing is part of the innovative shared transport regime which aims to maximize the utilization of mobility resources. Gaining knowledge of ridesharing’s impacts and how to assess them can significantly improve such services and thus contribute to their adoption among broader groups of travelers and to travel behavior change. This paper presen...

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is an innovative service which combines public and private transport services to enable seamless urban mobility. IP4MaaS project designs, develops and implements new demonstration MaaS schemes in six European cities. This paper summarizes the MaaS to be integrated in Athens’ demo site and describes the planning process...

Multimodal traveling is expected to enhance mobility for users, reduce inequalities of car ownership, and reduce emissions. In the same context, ride-sharing aims to minimize negative impacts related to emissions, reduce travel costs and congestion, increase passenger vehicle occupancy, and increase public transit ridership when planned for first/l...

A seamless experience of multimodal travel becomes essential to promote the modal shift towards public and shared mobility, and sustainable mobility. Within this context, this study uses two demonstrations that an in Athens Greece by using the same mobile application. The demonstrations used an application, proposing trips that are covered partly b...

Multimodal traveling is expected to enhance mobility for users, reduce inequalities of car ownership and reduce emissions. In the same context, ride-sharing aims to minimize negative impacts related to emissions, reduce travelling costs and congestion, and increase passenger vehicle occupancy, and public transit ridership when planned for first/las...

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is an innovative mobility service that aims to redesign the future of urban mobility by integrating multi-modal transportation and app-based technologies to enable seamless urban mobility. While MaaS pilot demonstrations and schemes implementation have taken place in different cities at a global level, and relevant stud...

Ride-sharing services promote sustainable transport as they reduce car use and minimize negative impacts related to carbon emissions, travelling costs and congestion. Several studies in the past focused on understanding users’ attitude and characteristics towards encouraging them to use ride-sharing services. This study aims to contribute to the li...

Europe is an extremely ferry-intensive area, with two main markets – the Northern Europe and the Baltic, and the Mediterranean; while EU ferries account for 35% of the world fleet. This research presents the E-ferry, the first pure electric ferry for medium range routes and likely the largest battery pack ever installed in an electric vessel, and e...

Ride-sharing is an innovative on-demand transport service that aims to promote sustainable transport, reduce car utilization, increase vehicle occupancy and public transport ridership. By reviewing ride-sharing studies around the world, this paper aims to map major aspects of ride-sharing, including online platforms, user factors and barriers that...

Several studies have focused on understanding travelers’ attitudes and characteristics toward using carpooling services. However, few of these studies have focused the driver’s behavior and carpooling services that are organized to feed public transport. This research investigates the willingness of drivers to accept a carpooling ride, as part of t...

The hyperloop is an innovative land transport mode for passengers and freight that travels at ultra-high speeds. Lately, different stakeholders have been engaged in the research and development of hyperloop components. The novelty of the hyperloop necessitates certain directions to be followed toward the development and testing of its technological...

Improving transportation planning by incorporating ride-sharing services into multimodal trips relies on the understanding of different user types, their reasons for using, and motives for promoting ride-sharing services. This research explores the factors that affect users traveling by using ride-sharing with public transport. A survey conducted i...

Waterborne transportation poses a significant impact on environment due to its sheer volume and reliance on non-renewable energy sources. Maritime transportation carbon dioxide emissions contribute to the global warming, whereas air pollutants affect coastal areas and harbors. Europe is an extremely ferry intensive area, with more than one third of...

The design and development of ride-sharing systems have been urged from the need to improve the performance of transport systems in urban areas and promote sustainability. Despite its significant potential, ride-sharing has demonstrated limited uptake so far, because of a set of barriers (technological and legal). This paper aims to provide a bette...

This deliverable presents the revised version of the Human Factors (HF) methodological framework which has been developed in the SAFER-LC project as part of Work Package 2 (WP2). The objective of Task 2.2 of WP2 is to develop a Human Factors methodological framework to evaluate the effectiveness of selected safety measures in terms of making level...

Road user behavior plays a major role in accidents at level crossings. Therefore, measures to improve safety at level crossings should be developed with a human factors perspective. Moreover, they should be affordable and applicable to a large number of crossings to achieve tangible safety effects. We report on work to collect and design human-cent...

This deliverable describes the methods applied and the results achieved during the first phase of Task 2.3 within the SAFER-LC project: the design of new human-centred low-cost measures to improve safety at level crossings (LCs). The European project SAFER-LC – Safer level crossing by integrating and optimizing road-rail infrastructure management a...

This deliverable presents the first version of the Human Factors methodological framework which has been developed in the SAFER-LC project as part of Work Package 2. The purpose of thisdeliverable is to describe the theoretical background of the Human Factors methodological framework, including the sets of criteria selected for the Human Factors as...

To face the increased pressure for economically and environmentally sustainable solutions, the European freight transport sector should explore its potential focusing among others on the development of efficient collaboration schemes. Recently, the term cluster, introduced by M. Porter in the 80s, seems to gain ground as a promising ‘tool’ for stre...

This chapter aims at providing a critical review and analysis of good practices on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the European transport sector and draws recommendations for the acceleration of the deployment of advanced technologies in Europe. The cases examined are mature industrial applications and products produc...

The availability of accurate, up-to-date and timely transport and traffic information has become nowadays a crucial issue for decision makers and traffic planers, who wish to plan sustainable transport systems. The paper presents an online platform, the Observatory for Public Authorities and Transport Planners, providing traffic and transport aggre...

Metropolitan areas face ever increasing demands on their transportation systems. The VIAJEO project, co-funded by the EC DG Research, addresses traffic planning and operation challenges in those areas by designing, implementing and demonstrating an open platform to process and share data from different sources. The project aims to demonstrate the r...

The scientific field of mobility management receives greater attention as traffic congestion and its severe effects cannot be dealt in an effective way. This mainly occurs in urban areas. How are these issues handled in regions, mainly touristic, where the seasonal variations of transport demand need a different approach? The DELTA project addresse...