Basil Stephanis

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• MSc, PhD
• Professor (Full) at Democritus University of Thrace

A family of innovative financial mechanisms and tools for urban public transport, based on the value increment caused by enhanced accessibility, are lately gaining much popularity as a solution to the challenges posed by public financial resources’ shrinkage: Value Capture Finance (VCF). The effectiveness of applied transport financing policies dep...

A critical challenge for cities worldwide is to develop and maintain a reliable, secure and highly accessible public transport system, in order to reduce the intense problems caused by the extensive use of personal vehicles and achieve sustainable urban mobility. Towards the objective of assessing accessibility to public means of transport, the pre...

A building’s bioclimatic design refers to the design of its spaces based on the region’s climate, in order to assure best interior conditions. This study deals with the ab initio design of a two-storey and of a ground floor dwelling of a settlement. The settlement is suitably modulated so that there is no shadowing to the south sides at anytime dur...

More than half the world' s population lives in urban areas. Without public transport these areas are hardly livable, unsustainable and far from equitable. To make public transport more attractive, public transport companies should be keen to ensure high quality of service. In this paper the definition of service quality and effect on the attractiv...

An aggregate econometric model for the analysis and the forecast of passenger demand of Greek railways is presented in the paper. First, the basic principles for modelling and forecast of transport demand are presented and thereafter an extensive literature review of models which have been calibrated for the forecast of rail passenger demand is con...

The general idea of Space Syntax approach postulates that, the total network of public spaces which is defined by the natural form of the urban tissue in every settlement or city, can be considered as a single and continuous spatial system. This system can be divided into components, analyzed as networks of choices, and then represented as maps and...

Η κλασική έννοια της «φέρουσας ικανότητας» των οικοσυστημάτων έχει πεδίο εφαρμογής και στις μεταφορές με βασικότερες όψεις την κατανάλωση ενέργειας και τους συναφείς ρύπους. Σε χωροταξικό επίπεδο, η δημιουργία αυτοδύναμων παραγωγικά και καταναλωτικά κοινοτήτων και περιφερειών μειώνει τον όγκο των μεταφορών και σε επίπεδο πόλης, λύσεις δίνει μια ήπι...

Ο κατάλληλος σχεδιασμός του μεταφορικού δικτύου είναι αναγκαία υποδομή για την οικοανάπτυξη κάθε περιοχής. Ο κλάδος των μεταφορών έχει και αρνητικές επιπτώσεις στο φυσικό περιβάλλον και στην υγεία των ανθρώπων. Από τα χερσαία μέσα μεταφοράς ο σιδηρόδρομος αποτελεί το πλέον φιλικό προς το περιβάλλον μέσο μεταφοράς με όρους ενεργειακής κατανάλωσης κα...

The aim of this work is the enhancement of ecological planning principles and manufacturing through the study of traditional architecture. Thassos is the northernmost island of the Aegean Sea, mountainous with rich vegetation, history and culture; the only Aegean island where we see the traditional Macedonian and Thracian building methods of the hi...

Implementing new transportation services for servicing only a special population subgroup presents a severe problem on transport operation process because one has to separate them from the common users and provide them specific transit services under the quality and cost restrictions. A significant counterpart of this problem is the definition of t...

The design, planning and construction scheduling of the infrastructure works to meet the needs for the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens are major challenges that the engineers of our country are faced. The location of facilities and the organisation of the transportation system of the capital are prerequisites for the even waging of the Olympic Game...

Most of the modeling techniques of travel demand estimation for intercity travel were developed in industrialized countries. Hence, very few attempts were made in developing ones, mainly, due to the non availability of the proper data since the cost of nation wide travel surveys is high. The aim of this paper is to identify and select the main vari...

In this paper, a deterministic approach to systems dependent on many variables is revealed based mainly on the reasoning of relativity. We apply the two fundamental principles of mechanics (least action and equivalence) to an N-dimensional space that enables us to handle the variables involved in the systems we examine. We also find an application...

The dissertation develops a planning process for the implementation and evaluation of demonstration projects. The process consists of a set of interrelated steps, each representing an essential component of the proposed methodology. A method is developed and presented for predicting the effects, or impacts, a proposed transportation demonstration p...

An evaluation methodology for the analysis of alternative transportation improvements for the handicapped and elderly is proposed. The approach is based on the ability to incorporate the qualitative attributes of transportation systems which are particularly significant to the handicapped and elderly groups. These attributes include comfort and con...