Participation at Events

Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to deliver a keynote presentation entitled "Automated and connected vehicles: Towards a disruptive mobility evolution?" and to participate in a Panel Discussion on Ethical and Technical Challenges of Autonomous Traffic at the Science Days of the Silesian University of Technology: III International Conference of Priority Research Areas, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, 10-11 April 2025.
Prof. Ioannis Papamichail delivered an invited presentation entitled "Optimal control approaches for lane-free traffic with connected and automated vehicles" at GRETTIA, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France, on 4 April 2025.
Mr. Iason Chrysomallis attended the 39^th Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI 2025), that was held in that was held in Philadelphia, PA, USA on February 25 - March 4, 2025. He presented the paper:
Chrysomallis, I., Chalkiadakis, G., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Deep implicit imitation reinforcement learning in heterogeneous action settings.
Prof. Iasson Karafyllis attended the 2024 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024), that was held in Milano, Italy, December 16-19, 2024. He presented the paper:
Theodosis, D., Karafyllis, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Bidirectional cruise controller for platoons with constant spacing and collision avoidance.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited seminar entitled "Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging" at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, on 26 November 2024.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited keynote presentation entitled “Traffic management in the era of vehicle automation and communication systems (VACS)” at the 1^st Intern. Conference on Traffic Control for Smart Highway, Ningbo, China, 22-23 November 2024.

Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to deliver an online recorded presentation entitled "Road traffic control: Past, present and future" at the Control History Forum Session of the IEEE CSS (Control Systems Society) Day 2024 Virtual Conference, 21-25 October 2024.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to deliver a seminar entitled “Freeway traffic control via variable speed limits” and to participate in a Panel Discussion at the “Rencontre Technique sur la Régulation Dynamique des Vitesses : Etat des Lieux et Nouvelles Applications” (Technical Meeting on Dynamic Speed Control: State of the Art and New Applications) organized by Cerema and Université Gustave Eiffel in Paris, France, on 15 October 2024.
Dr. Mehdi Naderi presented virtually a paper entitled “Joint optimal control of CAV platoons crossing lane-free signal-free intersections” in 27^th IEEE Intern. Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-ITSC 2024), held in Edmonton, Canada, September 24 -27, 2024.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou gave an invited keynote plenary presentation on "Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging" at the 16^th International Conference ETAI 2024, Struga, North Macedonia, September 21-23, 2024.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou and Prof. Ioannis Papamichail attended the 5^th Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems (MFTS 2024), Heraklion, Greece, September 4-6, 2024. Prof. Papageorgiou presented the following paper:
1. Typaldos, P., Papageorgiou, M.: A constrained differential dynamic programming algorithm for automated vehicles in lane-free traffic.
Also, our external collaborators Prof. Yibing Wang and Ms. Fengyue Jin attended the conference and presented the following paper:
2. Jin, F., Yu, H., Wang, Y., Papageorgiou, M.: Coordinated control for lane-free traffic of connected automated vehicles on freeways: Internal boundary control, ramp metering and variable speed limit control.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou, Prof. Ioannis Papamichail, Dr. Mehdi Naderi and Dr. Milad Malekzadeh attended the Conference for the 30^th Anniversary of Transportation Research Part C (TRC-30), Heraklion, Greece, September 2-4, 2024. Prof. Papageorgiou delivered an invited keynote plenary presentation entitled "Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging". They also presented the following papers:
1. Malekzadeh, M., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Ramp metering in lane-free vehicular traffic via variable speed limits.
2. Naderi, M., Tsotsos, A., Papageorgiou, M.: Controlling automated vehicles on lane-free roundabouts via a nonlinear controller.
Also, our external collaborators Prof. Yibing Wang, Prof. Klaus Bogenberger and their groups attended the conference and presented the following papers:
3. Yang, P., Wang, Y., Papageorgiou, M.: Integrated control of internal boundaries and signal timing at an isolated intersection for lane-free traffic of CAVs.
4. Niels, T., Bogenberger, K., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I.: Optimization-based autonomous intersection management.
5. Rostami-Shahrbabaki, M., Keyvan-Ekbatani, M., Malekzadeh, M., Bogenberger, K., Papageorgiou, M.: Dynamic lane configuration: Bridging traffic management and infrastructure design.
Ms. Niloufar Dabestani attended the 17^th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS 2024), that was held in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, July 1-3, 2024. She presented the paper:
Dabestani, N., Typaldos, P., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Joint vehicle path planning for interruptible 1-D snake-like platoons and 2-D flocks in lane-free traffic.
Dr. Mehdi Naderi attended the 22^nd European Control Conference (ECC 2024), that was held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 25-28, 2024. He presented the paper:
Naderi, M., Typaldos, P., Papageorgiou, M.: Optimal control of automated vehicles crossing a lane-free signal-free intersection.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou, Prof. Ioannis Papamichail, Dr. Mehdi Naderi and Ms. Niloufar Dabestani attended the 12^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2024), Espoo, Finland, June 18-20, 2024. Prof. Papageorgiou delivered an invited keynote plenary presentation entitled "Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging". They also presented the following papers:
1. Dabestani, N., Typaldos, P., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Joint trajectory planning for 1-D snake-like interruptible vehicle platoons in lane-free traffic.
2. Naderi M., Typaldos P., Papageorgiou M.: Controlling lane-free signal-free intersections via model predictive control.
Prof. Ioannis Papamichail, Dr. Dionysios Theodosis, Dr. Milad Malekzadeh and Mr. Georgios Titakis attended the 32^nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2024), Chania, Greece, June 11-14, 2024. They presented the following papers:
1. Malekzadeh, M., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Feedforward extension to improve LQR performance in internal boundary control.
2. Titakis, G., Karafyllis, I., Theodosis, D., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: The effects of cruise controlled vehicles on traffic density.
3. Karafyllis, I., Theodosis, D., Papageorgiou, M.: Cruise Controllers for general lane-free driving conditions.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited by the Chinese Automation Association (CAA) to deliver a ‘H.S. Tsien International Distinguished Scientists Lecture’ in Beijing, China, on 2 June 2024. This was the 41^st such lecture and the 1^st held in 2024. The lecture was entitled "Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging".

Dr. Mahdi Naderi delivered an invited webinar on "Lane-free Signal-free Intersection Crossing via Model Predictive Control" which was organised by the ECTRI Thematic Group on Traffic Management & Modelling, on 16 May 2024.
Dr. Panagiotis Typaldos attended the 103^rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) at Washington, D.C. on January 7-11, 2024. He presented the paper:
Typaldos, P., Pavlaki, I., Yanumula, V.K., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Optimal trajectory planning for emergency vehicles in lane-free automated vehicle traffic.
Dr. Mehdi Naderi and Ms. Maria-Konstantina Mavroeidi attended the 62^nd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2023), that was held in Singapore on December 13-15, 2023. Dr. Mehdi Naderi presented a paper entitled "Optimal orientation for automated vehicles on large lane-free roundabouts".
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to deliver a seminar at the Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 8 December 2023. His presentation was entitled "Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging".
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to deliver a seminar at the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, 4 December 2023. His presentation was entitled "Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging".
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou gave an invited keynote plenary presentation on "Road traffic control: Past, present and future" at the Third EURECA-PRO Conference on Responsible Consumption and Production, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 26-29 September 2023.
Prof. Ioannis Papamichail and Ms. Niloufar Dabestani attended the 26^th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023) that was held in Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, September 24-28, 2023. Prof. Ioannis Papamichail presented a paper entitled "Macroscopic traffic flow model calibration for lane-free automated vehicle traffic" and Ms. Niloufar Dabestani presented a paper entitled "Joint trajectory optimization for multiple automated vehicles in lane-free traffic with vehicle nudging.
At the same conference, two further papers co-authored by TrafficFluid members were presented by our external collaborators, as follows:
1. Yang, P., Jin, X., Hu, Y., Wang, Y., Zhao, M., Papageorgiou, M., Guo, J.: Integrated control of internal boundaries and signal timing at an isolated intersection for lane-free traffic of CAVs.
2. Zhang, H., Rostami-Shahrbabaki, M., Troullinos, D., Bogenberger, K.: A novel potential line strategy for autonomous vehicle control in lane-free traffic.
Mr. Georgios Titakis attended the 21^st International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2023) that was held in Heraklion, Greece, September 11-17, 2023. He presented a paper entitled "Numerical approximations to a macroscopic automated-vehicle traffic flow model".
Mr. Milad Malekzadeh presented a paper entitled "Microscopic simulation-based testing of internal boundary control of lane-free automated vehicle traffic" at the 11^th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2023), that was held in ETH university, Zurich on September 6-8, 2023.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou gave an invited reverse hybrid seminar entitled "Highlights of Lane-Free Automated Vehicle Traffic with Nudging" at the University of California Berkeley, September 1, 2023.

Highlights of Lane-Free Automated Vehicle Traffic with Nudging

Prof. Iasson Karafyllis gave an invited seminar at the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of California at San Diego, 4 August, 2023. The title of the talk was "Cruise Controller Design and Traffic Fluids". The seminar was also attended online. A vivid two-hour discussion followed after the talk, as many people from the audience asked various questions and offered comments about the foundations and features of the new science of automated vehicle traffic. The slides of the talk can be found here.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to attend and deliver a keynote presentation at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Workshop, Faculty of Maritime and Transportation, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China, 14-15 July 2023. His presentation was entitled "Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging".
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis delivered an invited seminar entitled "Cruise controllers and fluid-like traffic models" at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, July 14, 2023.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou and Dr. Elia Vardaki were invited to attend and deliver keynote presentations at the Workshop of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society - The Road to Emerging Mobility Systems for Smart Cities, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, June 30 - July 1, 2023. Prof. Papageorgiou delivered a presentation entitled “Highlights of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with nudging”, and Dr. Vardaki delivered a presentation entitled “Autonomous driving and disabilities: Challenges and promises in perspective”.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to the Workshop on Adaptive Control to Intelligent Transportation Systems - In Celebration of Prof. Petros Ioannou’s 70th Birthday, Limassol, Cyprus, June 29, 2023. The title of his presentation was “GLOSA algorithms for signalised urban junctions”.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou, Prof. Ioannis Papamichail and Mr. Georgios Titakis attended the 31^st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2023) that was held in Limassol, Cyprus, June 26-29, 2023. Mr. Titakis delivered a presentation entitled "Performance evaluation of cruise-controlled vehicles on a macroscopic scale".
Mr. Milad Malekzadeh attended the 8^th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS 2023) that was held in Nice, France, June 14-16, 2023. He presented a paper entitled "Overlapping internal boundary control of lane-free automated vehicle traffic – An LMI approach".
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis presented a paper entitled "Cruise controllers for vehicles on lane-free ring-roads" at the American Control Conference (ACC2023), that was held in San Diego, CA, USA, on May 31 - June 2, 2023.
On the occasion of his proclamation to an Honorary Doctor (Doctor honoris causa) of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on 20 March 2023, Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered a talk on "Traffic flow as an artificial fluid".
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis presented a paper entitled "Artificial traffic fluids emerging from the design of cruise controllers" at the Conference on Decision and Control 2022 (CDC2022), that was held in Cancun, Mexico on December 6-9, 2022.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on "GLOSA systems for signalised urban junctions" at the 8^th ITS Hellas Conference, Athens, Greece, December 7-8, 2022.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to deliver a presentation on "Optimal control approach for lane-free automated vehicles" at the Workshop on Lane-Free Automated Vehicles, organized by the TrafficFluid partner Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control (prof. Klaus Bogenberger), Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 2 December 2022.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was an external member of the doctoral committee for the PhD thesis "Integrated intersection control for connected automated vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists" by Tanja Niels at the School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Germany. The thesis defense took place on 1 December 2022.
Prof. Ioannis Papamichail and Mr. Panagiotis Typaldos attended the 4^th Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems 2022 (MFTS2022) that was held in Dresden, Germany, November 30 - December 2, 2022. They presented the following papers:
1. Typaldos, P., Koutsas, P., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: GLOSA system with uncertain green and red signal phases.
2. Faros, I., Yanumula, V.K., Typaldos, P., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: A lateral positioning strategy for connected and automated vehicles in lane-free traffic.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou and Prof. Ioannis Papamichail were invited to attend and deliver keynote presentations at the Symposium organized by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) for the Travelling Fellowship Program in 2022 for Young Professionals (YPs) in Chania, Greece, on 25-27 November 2022. Prof. Papageorgiou delivered a presentation entitled "A New Traffic Paradigm in the Era of Connected and Automated Vehicles", and Prof. Papamichail delivered a presentation entitled "Traffic Management using Connected Automated Vehicles".
Dr. Mehdi Naderi, Mr. Iason Chrysomallis, Ms. Niloufar Dabestani, Mr. Vasileios Markantonakis, Mr. Georgios Titakis, Mr. Dimitrios Troullinos and Mr. Panagiotis Typaldos attended the Symposium and took part in the PechaKucha Session (YPs: Introductions, Ideas and Solutions), where Ms. Dabestani won the 3^rd prize.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation entitled "A new traffic paradigm for connected automated vehicles (CAV)" at the Séminaire Modélisation des Réseaux de Transport, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France, on 10 November 2022.
Dr. Mehdi Naderi and Mr. Milad Malekzadeh attended the 25^th IEEE Intern. Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-ITSC 2022), held in distributed-hybrid mode at Beijing and Macau, China, September 18 - October 12, 2022. They presented the following papers:
1. Naderi, M., Papageorgiou, M., Karafyllis, I., Papamichail, I.: Automated vehicle driving on large lane-free roundabouts.
2. Malekzadeh, M., Manolis, D., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Empirical investigation of properties of lane-free automated vehicle traffic.
Also, our external collaborators Prof. Yibing Wang and Mr. Xufeng Jin attended the conference and presented the following paper:
3. Jin, X., Yu, X., Hu, Y., Wang, Y., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I., Malekzadeh, M.: Integrated control of internal boundary and ramp inflows for lane-free traffic of automated vehicles on freeways.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to present a keynote talk on "A new traffic paradigm for connected automated vehicles (CAV)" at the 25^th IEEE Intern. Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-ITSC 2022), held in distributed-hybrid mode at Beijing and Macau, China, September 18 - October 12, 2022.
Prof. Ioannis Papamichail was an external member of the doctoral committee for the PhD thesis "Estimation and control of urban road traffic with communicating vehicles" by Cyril Nguyen Van Phu at the Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France. The thesis defense took place on 15 September 2022.
On the occasion of his honorary appointment as a TUM Ambassador, Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to deliver a celebration seminar on “A new traffic paradigm in the era of connected and automated vehicles” at the Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control, Technical University of Munich, Germany, on 15 July 2022.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou participated and delivered an invited presentation on "A new traffic paradigm in the CAV era" at the 2^nd Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center (ISTRC) Conference (ISTRC22), that was held in honor and memory of Prof. Joseph (Yossie) Prashker in Haifa, Israel, July 3-4, 2022.
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis and Mr. Milad Malekzadeh attended the 30^th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED2022), that was held in Athens, Greece, June 28 - July 1, 2022. They presented the following papers:
1. Theodosis, D., Tzortzoglou, F.N., Karafyllis, I., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Sampled-data controllers for autonomous vehicles on lane-free roads.
2. Malekzadeh, M., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Overlapping internal boundary control of lane-free automated vehicle traffic with state and input inclusion.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou participated and presented a paper entitled "Lane-free traffic with connected and automated vehicles – An optimal control approach" at the 11^th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN XI), that was held in Mauritius Island, June 19-25, 2022.
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis presented a paper entitled "Stability analysis of nonlinear inviscid traffic flow models of bidirectional cruise controlled vehicles" at the American Control Conference 2022 (ACC2022), that was held in Atlanta, USA on June 8-10, 2022.
Prof. Ioannis Papamichail delivered an invited presentation entitled "Traffic control for freeways in the presence of CAVs – Simulation experiments using AIMSUN" at the AIMSUN Workshop: Modelling and Simulation for CAVs and Emerging Mobility Solutions, 10th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Leuven, Belgium, May 31, 2022.
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis delivered an invited seminar entitled "Cruise controllers and fluid-like traffic models" at the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, May 27, 2022.
Prof. Georgios Chalkiadakis and Mr. Dimitrios Troullinos presented a paper entitled "Max-sum with quadtrees for DCOPs with application to lane-free autonomous driving" at the 21^st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022), that was held online on May 9-13, 2022.
Mr. Dimitrios Troullinos presented a paper entitled "Extending SUMO for lane-free microscopic simulation of connected and automated vehicles" at the SUMO User Conference 2022 (SUMO 2022), that was held online on May 9-11, 2022. You may watch the presentation here.
Mr. Milad Malekzadeh attended the following modules of the 2022 International Graduate School on Control:
- M10: Predictive and optimization based control for automotive and aerospace applications, Paris Saclay, France, May 2-5, 2022 (online).
- M11: Introduction to nonlinear systems & control, Paris Saclay, France, May 9-13, 2022.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited seminar entitled "A new traffic paradigm in the CAV era" at METRANs PSR Webinar Series, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, May 9, 2022. (online)
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to attend the 1^st Symposium on Connected Mobility, organised by the Connected Intelligent Urban Transportation Lab, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, March 31 - April 1, 2022. Prof. Papageorgiou delivered an online presentation on "A new traffic paradigm in the CAV era". He also participated online at a Panel Discussion on Research Needs and Prospects for Connected and Automated Vehicle Traffic.
Dr. Venkata Karteek Yanumula delivered an invited webinar on "Lane-free traffic with connected and automated vehicles – An optimal control approach" which was organised by the ECTRI Thematic Group on Traffic Management & Modelling, on 17 February 2022.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou and Prof. Ioannis Papamichail attended the 101^st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) at Washington, D.C. on January 9-13, 2022. They presented (partly with other cooperating co-authors) the following papers:
1. Troullinos, D., Chalkiadakis G., Manolis D., Papamichail I., Papageorgiou, M.: A lane-free microscopic simulation tool for connected and automated vehicles.
2. Martínez I., Markantonakis V., Papamichail I., Papageorgiou, M., Jin W.-L.: Stationary states and capacity drop at lane-drop bottlenecks with the Intelligent Driver Model.
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis presented a paper entitled "Two-dimensional cruise control of autonomous vehicles on lane-free roads" at the 60^th IEEE conference on Decision and Control (CDC2021), that was held online on December 13-15, 2021.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited at the 6^th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021), Tiruchirappalli (Trichy), India, 14-17 December 2021, to hold online:
- An executive 3-hour course (in cooperation with Prof. B. Rama Chilukuri) on "Freeway traffic control"; and
- A keynote presentation on "Traffic management for the 21^st century".
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered two invited presentations:
- "Motorway traffic control via variable speed limits"; and
- "A new traffic paradigm and related opportunities in the CAV era"
at the Webinar on "Intelligent Transportation Systems for Sustainable Mobility: Advanced Topics from the US and European Experience" organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 6-7 December 2021 (online).
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis delivered an invited presentation entitled "Nonlinear Adaptive Cruise Control for Vehicular Platoons" in the frame of the ACC webinar series organized by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (ACP50), 29 October 2021. You may watch the webinar here.
Mr. Panagiotis Typaldos participated at the Mediterranean Researchers' Night 2021, a public event organized by MEDNIGHT at Chania, Greece on 24 September 2021. He presented the TrafficFluid project and related results. See also the related brochure (in Greek).
Mr. Dimitrios Troullinos and Dr. Venkata-Karteek Yanumula attended the 24^th IEEE Intern. Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-ITSC 2021), that was held online on September 19-22, 2021. They presented he following papers:
1. Troullinos, D., Chalkiadakis, G., Manolis, D., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Lane-free microscopic simulation for connected and automated vehicles.
2. Yanumula, V.K., Typaldos, P., Troullinos, D., Malekzadeh, M., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Optimal path planning for connected and automated vehicles in lane-free traffic.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to a Discussion Panel on "Rethinking Traffic Flow with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles" organized by the MIT Mobility Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 17 September 2021 (online). - Video -
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited lecture on "Freeway traffic control" at the Summer School on "Optimization and Control in Infrastructure Networks", organized by ETHzurich and EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Lausanne, Swtizerland, 6-9 September 2021 (online).
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited seminar entitled "A new traffic paradigm and related opportunities in the CAV era" at the Traffic Dynamics Modelling and Control Lab, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, 6 September 2021.
Prof. Papamichail, Dr. Dionysios Theodosis and Mr. Milad Malekzadeh attended the 2021 European Control Conference (ECC21), that was held online on June 29 - July 2, 2021. They presented the following papers:
1. Malekzadeh, M., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Internal boundary control of lane-free automated vehicle traffic using a Linear Quadratic Integral regulator.
2. Karafyllis, I., Theodosis, D., Papageorgiou, M.: A novel nonlinear adaptive cruise controller for vehicular platoons.
Mr. Panagiotis Typaldos delivered an invited presentation entitled "Optimization-based path-planning for connected and non-connected automated vehicles" at the MED2021 Workshop on "Modeling and Control Tools for Sustainable and Connected Mobility in Smart Cities" that was held online on June 22, 2021.
Prof. Papageorgiou delivered on 17 June 2021 (online) an invited webinar, organized by TRB (Transportation Research Board)’s Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (TRB ACP50) entitled "A New Traffic Paradigm and Related Opportunities in the CAV Era", presenting the TrafficFluid scope and some first results. You may watch the webinar here.
Prof. Papageorgiou and Mr. Milad Malekzadeh presented a paper entitled "Optimal control of internal road boundary for lane-free automated vehicle traffic" at the 7^th International IEEE Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS 2021), that was held online on June 16-18, 2021.
Mr. Milad Malekzadeh presented a paper entitled "Internal boundary control of lane-free automated vehicle traffic using a model-free adaptive controller" at the 16^th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS 2021), that was held online on June 8-10, 2021. Other members of the TrafficFluid group participated at the same conference.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered on 11 May 2021 (online) an invited Special Seminar, organized by the MIT ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) Lab and co-supported by the MIT Mobility Initiative, entitled "A New Traffic Paradigm and Related Opportunities in the CAV Era", presenting the TrafficFluid scope and some first results. You may watch the seminar here.
Mr. Dimitrios Troullinos presented a paper entitled "Collaborative multiagent decision making for lane-free autonomous driving" at the 20^th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021), that was held online on May 3-7, 2021. You may watch the presentation here.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou held an invited presentation on "Traffic management in the CAV era" with subsequent panel discussion participation on "Managing traffic in a CCAM ecosystem: how to do it efficiently and safely?" at the 3^rd European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving (EUCAD2021), Virtual Event, 20-22 April 2021.
Dr. Elia Vardaki, Senior Research Associate at DSSL, delivered an invited presentation on "Autonomous vehicles and ethical dilemmas: Towards an anthropological approach of ethics in Artificial Intelligence and autonomous vehicles" (in Greek) organized by the University of Crete Research Center (UCRC) for the Humanities, the Social & Educational Sciences, Brown Bag Seminars (BBS), Greece, on 4 February 2021 (online).
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on "A New Traffic Paradigm and Related Opportunities in the CAV Era" organized by the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, on 11 December 2020 (online).
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou was invited to hold a 5-day Short Course on "Dynamic traffic flow modelling and control and emerging trends" at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, on 30 November – 4 December 2020 (online).
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited keynote plenary presentation on "A new traffic paradigm and related opportunities in the CAV era" at the IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FORUM ISTS2020), Delft, The Netherlands, 3-5 November 2020 (Virtual).
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited keynote presentation on "Lane-free artificial-fluid environment for vehicular traffic (TrafficFluid)" at the 4^th Intern. Conference on SmartRail, Traffic and Transportation Engineering (ICSTTE 2020), Madrid, Spain, 19-21 October 2020 (Virtual).
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited keynote presentation on "Optimal control approaches to vehicle trajectory planning" at the XIV Balkan Conference on Operational Research (BALCOR 2020), Thessaloniki, Greece, 30 September- 3 October 2020 (Virtual).
Dr. Dionysios Theodosis presented a paper entitled "Using nudging for the control of a non-local PDE traffic flow model" at the 23^rd IEEE Intern. Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-ITSC 2020), that was held online on September 20-23, 2020.
Mr. Panagiotis Typaldos delivered an invited presentation entitled "Online road vehicle trajectory specification in presence of traffic lights with stochastic switching times" at the IEEE-ITSC 2020 Workshop on "Traffic Management for Future Mobility - CAVs in a Mixed Traffic Environment" that was held online on September 20, 2020.
Mr. Milad Malekzadeh delivered an invited presentation entitled "Real-time internal boundary control of lane-free automated vehicle traffic" at the IEEE-ITSC 2020 Workshop on "Network Impacts of Emerging Mobility Trends" that was held online on September 20, 2020.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation entitled "Traffic flow modeling: Theoretical issues and application perspectives for intelligent and connected highways" (together with Prof. Gaetano Fusco) at the European Transport Conference - Virtual 2020, September 9-11, 2020.
Assoc. Prof. Ioannis Papamichail delivered an invited presentation on "Traffic control algorithms for mixed vehicle traffic" at a Tutorial Session on “Innovative topics and future challenges in traffic control”, 1^st Virtual IFAC World Congress (IFAC-V 2020), July 13-17, 2020.
The whole TrafficFluid group attended the 3^rd Symposium on Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems (MFTS 2020) that was held virtually on July 6-7, 2020. Prof. Markos Papageorgiou and Asoc. Prof. Ioannis Papamichail and PhD students Mr. Panagiotis Typaldos and Mr. Vasileios Markantonakis delivered (partly with other cooperating co-authors) the following presentations:
1. Typaldos, P., Papageorgiou, M., Papamichail, I.: Path-planning for automated vehicles in a cooperative framework.
2. Doko, A., Markantonakis, V., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., Schrab, K., Neubauer, M., Protzmann, R.: A dynamic lane assignment strategy for mixed vehicle traffic – A simulation-based investigation.
3. Markantonakis, V., Doko, A., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., Schrab, K., Neubauer, M., Protzmann, R.: Traffic control algorithms for mixed vehicle traffic – A simulation-based investigation.
4. Wang, Y., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Ego-efficient lane changes of smart vehicles with impacts on traffic flow.

In addition, Prof. Markos Papageorgiou participated in a panel discussion entitled "Roadmap to Level 5: What research needs to do to support full implementation of automation?", while Assoc. Prof. Ioannis Papamichail participated in a panel discussion entitled "Autonomous vs. human drivers: What will be the right mix?".
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited webinar on "Vehicular traffic flow as an artificial fluid" which was organised by the ECTRI Thematic Group on Traffic Management & Modelling, on 14 May 2020.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on "Lane-free artificial-fluid environment for vehicular traffic (TrafficFluid)" at the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece, on 6 March 2020.
Mr. Dimitrios Troullinos attended the Short Course "Networked Control of Multi-Agent Systems" (Instructor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Lunze) of the EECI International Graduate School on Control 2020 at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, on 10-14 February 2020.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou participated, as an invited external jury member, at the final presentation in the frame of the Habilitation procedure of Dr. Marion Leibold on "Optimality and Optimal Control in Robot Motion Planning" at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany, on 24 January 2020.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on “Lane-free artificial-fluid environment for vehicular traffic (TrafficFluid)” at the Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, on 23 January 2020.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou, Assoc. Prof. Ioannis Papamichail and PhD student Mr. Panagiotis Typaldos attended the 99^th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) at Washington, D.C. on January 12-16, 2020. They presented (partly with other cooperating co-authors) the following papers:
1. Typaldos, P., Kalogianni, I., Mountakis, K., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M.: Vehicle trajectory specification in presence of traffic lights with known or uncertain switching times.
2. Karimi, M., Roncoli, C., Alecsandru, C., Papageorgiou M.: Merging in mixed traffic of connected and automated vehicles and conventional vehicles: A model predictive control framework.
3. Zhang, S., Diamantis, M., Wang, Y., Cao, J., Hu, Y., Guo, J., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., Zhang, L., Hu, S.: Joint queue estimation and max-pressure control for signalized urban networks with connected vehicles.
4. Wang, Y., Guo, J., Zhao, M., Hu, Y., Papamichail, I., Papageorgiou, M., Bertini, R.: What if many smart cars conduct ego-efficient lane changes in traffic flow: An answer provided by reinforcement learning.

In addition, Prof. Markos Papageorgiou presented the TrafficFluid concept and project with two presentations, both entitled "Lane-free artificial-fluid environment for vehicular traffic" at the respective 2020 Annual Meetings of the TRB Standing Committees on Vehicle-Highway Automation and Freeway Operations, both held on January 14, 2020.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on "Vehicular traffic flow as an artificial fluid" at the 5^η Διημερίδα ITS Hellas Ευφυή Συστήματα Μεταφορών και Εξελίξεις στην Ελλάδα (5^th ITS Hellas Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems and Developments in Greece), Athens, Greece, December 17-18, 2019.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on "Sustainability, transportation and automated vehicles" at the ERC (European Research Council) Conference "Frontier Research: Creating Pathways to Sustainability", Brussels, Belgium, December 2-3, 2019.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on "Vehicular traffic flow as an artificial fluid" at the IEEE TUC Student Branch, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, November 22, 2019. - Video (in Greek) -
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on "TrafficFluid: Lane-free artificial-fluid environment for vehicular traffic" at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Vienna, Austria, October 31, 2019.
Prof. Markos Papageorgiou delivered an invited presentation on "The ERC Advanced Projects TRAMAN21 and TrafficFluid" at the Workshop on The Future of Mobility: Some Breakthroughs from ERC Projects in Transportation. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 23, 2019.