Kornilia Maria Kotoula

• Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

This study investigates how lifestyle factors influence mobility choices within the metropolitan area of Thessaloniki, which is the second largest city in Greece. The primary objective is to understand the interplay between lifestyle attitudes and preferences for sustainable mobility options. This research utilizes data from a comprehensive survey...

The analysis and modeling of parameters influencing parents’ decisions regarding school travel mode choice have perennially been a subject of interest. Concurrently, the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) can effectively contribute to generating reliable predictions across various topics. This paper begins with a comprehensive literature rev...

This paper examines the urban redevelopment of Thessaloniki International Fair Exhibition and Congress Centre (TIF-Helexpo) in Greece, presenting a methodological framework for analyzing the generated traffic and its implications. The framework involves identification and analysis of the existing traffic conditions, quantification of the Centre's k...

Travel demand modelling for school travel, remains a subject of limited research. The exploitation of factors influencing parents in school mode choice and the understanding of the significance parents attribute to these factors is important, contributing to transport planning and leading to a strategic direction with an ultimate scope to improve t...

Earlier studies have extensively examined school mobility in regards to socio-economic and demographic dimensions. However, school travel patterns adopted by parents’ personal perceptions and attitudes have so far received scant attention, especially in the Greek com-munity. Utilizing data collected from Public Schools of Thessaloniki, Greece, thro...

Seeking for a positive insight in the Covid-19 emergency situation, it can be well said that from the beginning of the pandemic spread, impacts on transport and tourism sector and adopted policy measures were investigated, as cities noticed a behavioral change towards alternative transport modes. In most cases, governments recognized that the promo...

Sport tourism is a fast-growing segment of tourism offering new perspectives and supporting travelers’ behavior shift towards active living that is a boost for sustainable destinations. These interrelations between active living, active travelling, and sport tourism have a powerful environmental, economic, and social impact. Based on the recognized...

Human behavior pattern recognition exploited using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) is at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI) classification applications. School trip transport forecasting mode selection based upon ANN forecasting ability provided an easy-to-use scientific toolkit for sustainable urban policies designing and implementation. Th...

Within the last decades, the examination and definition of factors affecting the mode choice decision on school trips has gained much of attention, as the completion of such trips represent a vast percentage of total travel demand. Key players of the decision process are students' parents, deciding how their children will complete everyday trips fr...

Travelling to and from school forms mobility habits and travel behavior aspects of students from a very young age, also adopted in later life. Parents are the key players of the whole mode choice process as in most cases they are the ones to decide how and by which transport mode their children will complete their everyday school trips. Understandi...

ICDSST 2020 is EWG-DSS’s 6th International Conference, following the five previous successful International Conferences on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST 2019 in Madeira; ICDSST 2018 in Crete; ICDSST 2017 in Namur; ICDSST 2016 in Plymouth; and ICDSST 2015 in Belgrade) as listed below. Since 1989 when the EWG-DSS was founded, the societ...

Putting citizens in the position of city planners while giving them a sense of purpose and plans' ownership is a difficult task since the win-win effect of participating in mobility planning is, in the majority of cases, not properly communicated. Aiming to display to travelers the value of their contribution with ultimate scope to increase the par...

Mobility patterns and travel behavior aspects of students traveling to universities, are gaining attention, as the completion of such every day trips are rather complicated. University students form a social group, essentially autonomous in terms of mode choice decision making. Understanding the mode choice decision process, may reveal the most app...

School transportation is a special and important issue for society, as it refers and involves a very sensitive age group. Therefore, the appropriate design as well as the provision of maximum safety to students, are necessary actions need to be taken into account for the smooth functioning of a society. Within the last years, research in this field...

School Transportation is a crucial issue for society, as it ensures that all children have access to schooling and brings students of all ages to schools and other educational facilities where they can study. An inefficient provision of such a service voids the right to free education especially for children originating from low-income families or...

Called to seek fresh thinking in mobility management, European cities present strong interest in parking management. In contrast with traditional approaches where parking problem was treated as a problem of inadequate supply whose solution lies on abundant, free and on a first-come basis parking provision, the rational of parking management is cons...

Traveling to school is a complex undertaking that refers to students’ daily trips from their residences to their schools and vice versa. The school bus routing problem differs from a conventional vehicle routing problem because it involves a procedure of receiving and delivering transported vulnerable objects (students). In the Greek school transpo...

Urban logistics is an integral part of the proper functioning of a city. It generates employment, serves and supports industrial and commercial activities that are daily taking place in modern urban centres, considered to be important levers of development and prosperity for a region. In recent years, interest in sustainable freight distribution pr...

The rapidly increasing development of electric vehicles’ market has enabled more and more cities worldwide to adopt electromobility in public transport as a way to create a more friendly and healthy urban environment for their citizens. Among them, taxis are the main candidates for replacement with electric ones, considering the fact that they make...

Thessaloniki undergoes radical changes; the city, although negatively affected by the recurrent effects of the economic crisis, is tentatively moving along the path to recovery. Taking advantage of lower rates in car use due to economic reasons, a Public Transport (PT) system reform, where the impact of adding value can thus be bigger, should be po...

The aim of this paper is to identify potential strategies for establishing more sustainable transport systems, in the island of Corfu, Greece. Thus, it investigates the implementation of “intermediate” and “flexible” transport and logistics schemes, operated by eco-friendly vehicles, allowing Corfu Island to achieve high standards of energy efficie...

The aim of this paper is to propose a new scheme for the reorganization of a public transport system in order to cover seasonal demand. The scope of the paper is to enhance the use of the public transport system and to minimize the use of private cars. The island of Kos is one of the Greek islands that hosts every summer more than 1,000,000 visitor...