At TRA2026, ECTRI offered Members the opportunity to showcase short and focused presentations on projects shaping the future of European transport research. The presentations were hosted during lunch and coffee breaks, on the Research Village Associations Stand.
ECTRI thanks all speakers for their insightful intervention and for their contribution to disseminating quality transport research in Europe.
Learn more about the Pitch Presentations, speakers and projects below.
RSImpact – A global road safety impact model for policy assessment (NTUA, Greece)
George Yannis
George Yannis is Professor in Traffic and Safety Engineering with particular focus on Data Science and Director of Traffic Engineering Laboratory of the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). For more than 30 years, he has contributed extensively in more than 350 research and engineering projects and studies and in several scientific committees of the European Commission and other International Organisations. He has published more than 1.100 scientific papers (287 in scientific journals) widely cited worldwide.
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BIO-INTEL-MOB – Integrating Sustainable Mobility and Logistics with Citizen-Centric Intelligent Solutions for Safe, Smart, Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Cities (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Kagan Capkin
Dr. Sevket Oguz Kagan Capkin is a researcher at the CTL – Research Centre for Transport and Logistics of Sapienza University of Rome and Secretary General of FERSI. His work focuses on sustainable mobility, logistics, transport automation, smart city governance, and impact assessment methodologies. He coordinates several European and national R&I projects, including BIO-INTEL-MOB, contributing to peri-urban mobility transitions, AI-driven logistics, and data-driven transport systems. He holds a PhD in Infrastructure and Transport from Sapienza University of Rome.
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Diversify-CCAM: Diversity and Societal Readiness in Shared CCAM (CERTH/HIT, GREECE)
Stella Nikolaou
Stella Nikolaou is a Human Factors expert and Research Associate at the Hellenic Institute of Transport, with extensive experience in national and European research projects since 2003. She holds a degree in Business Administration and is currently pursuing an MSc in Applied Statistics. Her research focuses on road safety, CCAM, automation and connectivity, human factors and interaction concepts, driver/rider monitoring, and societal readiness. She has contributed to numerous EU-funded initiatives, mainly leading and supporting technical implementation activities. She is the Scientific Manager of the EU project Diversify-CCAM, focusing on integrating diversification aspects into CCAM design and development, to foster mobility equality.
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RESKILLING – Research initiative for Enhancing and Adapting Workforce SKILLs for Implementing TraNsport Automation with Employment Growth (CERTH/HIT, GREECE)
Matina Loukea
Matina Loukea is a Psychologist with an MSc in Science, Technology and Society and a PhD candidate at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, focusing on the employability impacts of CCAM deployment in road passenger and freight transport. Since 2010, she has been a Scientific Associate at CERTH/HIT and currently serves as Head of the Laboratory on Touristic Services for Special Groups. Her expertise covers the social dimensions of mobility, user acceptance, accessibility in transport and tourism, workforce transitions, skills, inclusion, and gender equality. She has extensive experience in European and national research projects promoting user-centric and socially responsible mobility solutions.
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Right site, scale, and timing: Optimizing EV charging infrastructure with DLR’s PowerForecastMapper (DLR, Germany)
Moritz Bergfeld
Since 2020, Moritz bergfeld is a Research Associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transport Research, Berlin. He is the Lead developer of DLR’s charging demand model CHARGIN and works extensively on the integration of electric vehicles into the energy system and on sector coupling. He has published several studies on charging behavior and user acceptance of electric vehicles, and holds a PhD from the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU).
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Studying remote work in Europe: the WinWin4WorkLife approach to employer and employee data collection (UNIZA, Slovakia)
Yannick Cornet
Yannick Cornet is a Belgo-Canadian Senior Researcher in Sustainable Mobility Systems at the University of Žilina (Slovakia). His research focuses on traveller experience, multimodal mobility, and the sociotechnical dynamics of mobility transitions. He contributed to the development of the Worthwhile Travel Time (WTT) framework and to the design of app-based methods for collecting multimodal travel experience data across Europe. He is currently leading data collection activities in five countries within the Horizon Europe project WinWin4WorkLife on “Healthy, inclusive and sustainable remote work futures as a Win-Win for employees and employers in urban, rural and cross-border areas”
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Work Here, Live There, Pay the Fare: Analysing commuting behaviour and commuting costs based on a synthetic population in Germany (DZSF, Germany)
Stephanie Gaebler
Stephanie Gaebler is an economist with a focus on regional and transport economics and an interest in scientific policy advise. She received her Masters and PhD in Economics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. For several years, she gained experience in policy consulting, first as a researcher at the ifo Institute – Leibnitz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, and now at the German Centre for Rail Traffic Research (DZSF) at the Federal Railway Authority. At the ifo Institute, her focus was on regional economics, and at the DZSF on rail transport analysis.
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