Friday 3 November 2023
Venue: Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras
8.30 - 9.15
Registration and welcome coffee
9.15 - 9.25
Welcome speech and opening remark
Yorgos Stephanedes, Professor emeritus of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras
Fokion Zaimis, Deputy Governor of Entrepreneurship Research and Innovation of the Region of Western Greece
9.25 - 11.25
Session I: Intelligent Surveillance Technologies & Applications Training
Moderator: Alexandros Moz (Journalist) - Region of Western Greece
General remarks from the Security Forces of Western Greece
Apostolos Martzaklis, Police Major General Head of Police Directorate of Western Greece, Hellenic Police
Christoforos Mpokas, Major General, Coordinator of Western Greece, Peloponnese, and Ionian Islands of Hellenic Fire Service
Patras Port Authority
Mattheos Xenos, Vice President, Volunteer Group of Civil Protection "Achaios"
Alagianis Stavros, President of the Panhellenic Federation Of Volunteer Organizations For Forest Protection And Firefighting
The Patras Drone Declaration II
Yorgos Stephanedes, Professor emeritus of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras
Innovative Aerial Services: A European-lens reflection on the challenges, opportunities, and new stakeholders
Vassilis Agouridas, Leader of the UIC2 (EU's CIVITAS Initiative), Head of EU Public Co-Creation & Ecosystem Outreach (AIRBUS Urban Mobility)
Future possibilities for air transport
Mario Erario, R&D engineer - DTA Aerospace Technology Cluster
Serving remote locations with combined truck and UAV operations: case study in Greek rural areas
Konstantinos Kouretas, Orfeas Karountzos, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou
AETHER «Alliance for the Effective Transnational Handling of Environmental Resources»
Angela Ambrescia, Project Manager
AETHER platform architecture and data management
Marios Anagnostou, Computational Modelling Lab, Department of Informatics, Ionian University
Aerial support to vehicle trajectory extraction
Dimitra Chondrogianni, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Patras
Presentation and Demonstration of Drone equipment
Technical Support Drones Manager
Conclusions on the Operational Potential of the Pilot Equipment
Fokion Zaimis, Deputy Governor of Entrepreneurship Research and Innovation of the Region of Western Greece
11.25 – 12.00
Session II: Honorary Lecture
Moderator: Yorgos Stephanedes
Transport Systems: Models, Data, Technologies And Techniques, Dr. Jaume Barcelo, Professor emeritus, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Catalunya
12.00 – 13.00
Visit to Charilaos Trikoupis (Rio-Antirrio) Bridge
13.00 – 13.45
Networking Lunch
13.45 – 14.45
Session III: Green Mobility, organised by Green Inter-e-mobility
Moderator: Dimitrios Tsiamitros
Electric Vehicle high voltage Technician
Skyllakos Aristomenis, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of Greece
E-mobility at the Energy Center of Competence
Stelios Bikos, Energy Competence Center and Angelos Amditis, ICCS
Reskilling automotive engineers into high voltage electric vehicles engineers
Dimitrios Stimoniaris, Associate Professor, UoWM
Integration of Green Transport in cities: Green Inter-e-MObility
Dimitrios Tsiamitros, University of Western Macedonia, and Yorgos Stephanedes, University of Patras
14.45 - 15.15
Session IV: ML/NLP approaches to augment decision/policy making
Moderator: Nikos Karacapilidis
Incorporating NLP applications in Digital Democracy Platforms
N Giarelis, N Karacapilidis, G Kournetas, Ch Mastrokostas, I Siachos, University of Patras
On the development of an AI-Augmented Pedagogical Framework
Ch Karachristos, V Komis, K Lavidas, A Filippidi, N Karacapilidis, University of Patras
15.15-17.00
Session V: Intelligent Transportation Systems: Their future and development policies
Moderator: Athanasios Chassiakos
AI SMART - Adriatic Ionian Small Port Network in Greece
D. Karagiannis, Region of Western Greece
MetaCities Excellence Hub in South-Eastern Europe
Tania Politi, University of Patras
Kostopoulou Aggeliki, Region of Western Greece
Automated vehicles: Impact on human life and rights - Research results, positions, and concerns
Ioannis C. Matsas, George Mintsis, Socrates Basbas, Christos Taxiltaris
Correlations of automated mobility conditions with traffic conflict type
Maria G. Oikonomou, Apostolos Ziakopoulos, Marios Sekadakis, George Yannis
A 3D laser scanning and artificial intelligence based protocol for capacity assessment of aging steel bridges.
G. Tzortzinis, A. Filippatos, J. Witig, S. Gerasimidis
Identifying Spatial Inequalities and High CO2 Concentration Areas in the Greek Maritime Transportation System
Orfeas Karountzos, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou, Orestis Schinas
Good practices and barriers of Shared Mobility in Greece
Amprasi Vasiliki, Panagiotis Papantoniou, Dimosthenis Pavlou, University of West Attica
Optimization of vessel routing in short-sea shipping transportation
Panagiotis Farmakis and Athanasios Chassiakos, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Patras
Optimization of EV charging station network design in urban areas
Vasiliki Lazari, Athanasios Chassiakos, and Stylianos Karatzas, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Patras
Smart Mobility – Current & Future EU Trends
Zikos Panagiotis, iLink
17.00 - 18.00
Session VI: Roundtable discussion - Innovation
Moderator: Mardikis Ioannis, EPLO - European Public Law Organization
Connecting intelligent transportation with intelligent tourism. A case in Western Greece
Theodoros Tsoumpelis, Chief Executive Officer, DYNACOMP SA
The use of distributed RSU modules and roadside devices in the transmission and acquisition of data from vehicles.
Daniel Lenczowski, Sales Executive CCAM, SWARCO
Roundtable discussion
Theodoros Tsoumpelis, Chief Executive Officer, DYNACOMP SA
Daniel Lenczowski, Sales Executive CCAM, SWARCO
Aris Lalos, Research Director, Industrial Systems Institute, Athena R.C.
Stylianos Koutroubinas, Ph.D., CTO MEAZON SA
Conclusions
Marina Kouta, University of Patras
18.00 - 18.15
Awards
End of 2nd day
