Curriculum Vitae of Theodore Tsekeris (April 2012)

Dr. Theodore Tsekeris is a Research Fellow in Transport Economics at the Centre of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE), , . He has held academic research positions at the University of California at Berkeley and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He has taught at of Athens and University of . He studied Civil Engineering, Transportation Science and Planning at the City University London (B.Eng.), Imperial College and University College London (M.Sc.) and National Technical University of Athens (Ph.D.). He has extensively published in the fields of transport planning, management, regional science and urban economics. His current research interests include the development of spatio-economic models to investigate the processes of regional investment growth, industrial localization and regional specialization. Website: http://www.kepe.gr/Personal%20EN/tsekeris.htm

Academic Credentials Ph.D. in Transportation, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece (2004). M.Sc. and Diploma in Transportation, Imperial College, University of London, U.K. (1998). B.Eng. (Honours) in Civil Engineering, City University London, U.K. (1997).

Professional Experience Research Fellow in Transportation Economics, Centre for Planning and Economic Research

(KEPE), Athens, Greece (since March 2006). Academic Visitor, EPFL Transportation Center, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (acad. year 2010-2011). Visiting Lecturer in the Postgraduate Program “Organizational and Economic ”, Panteion University of Athens (acad. year 2008-2010). Adjunct Lecturer in Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of

Thessaly, Volos (acad. year 2008-2009). Senior Research Associate, Dept. Transportation Planning and Engineering, NTUA, Greece

(since March 2006; Senior Researcher between June 2004 – February 2006). Research Assistant Specialist, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at

Berkeley, CA (October 2002 – March 2003).

1 Publications & Research Output (more than 130 citations)

Refereed Books

Air Transport and Airports in Greece: Current Developments, Economic Significance and Efficiency (2011) Reports Series, No. 68, Athens: KEPE (co-authored with K. Vogiatzoglou).

Transport and Economy – Contribution, Trends and Prospects in Greece with Emphasis on

Surface Transport. (2010). Reports Series, No. 63, Athens: KEPE (Co-authored with E. Tsouma.)

Travel Consumption and Market Competition in Greece.(2010). Studies Series, No. 70, Athens: KEPE.

Refereed Articles in Journals “Spatial agglomeration of manufacturing in Greece: Sectoral patterns and determinants.” European Planning Studies (forthcoming).

“Disaggregate analysis of gasoline consumption demand of Greek households.” (2012) Engineering Economics, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 41-49.

“Spatial agent-based modeling of household and firm location with endogenous transport costs.” (2011). Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 77-98 (Co-authored with K. Vogiatzoglou).

“Public expenditure competition in the transport sector: Inter-modal and spatial considerations for Greece.” (2011) Environment and Planning A, Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 1981-1998.

“Exploring the role of Greece in the development of infrastructure networks in Southeastern Europe.” (2011) Transition Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 99-111 (Co-authored with Tsekeris, C., and Karabelias, G.)

“Simulation-based design of large-scale intermodal supply chain networks.” (2011) Scientific Journal of Maritime Research, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 115-128 (Co-authored with P. Ntemoli).

“Airport-oriented development of remote regions: Problems and prospects in Greece.” (2011) Journal of Airport Management, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 196-199.

“Demand forecasting in transport: Overview and modeling advances.” (2011) Economic Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 82-94.

“Greek airports: Efficiency measurement and analysis of determinants.” (2011). Journal of Air Transport Management, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 139-141.

2 “Public transport and road pricing: A survey and simulation experiments.” (2010). Public Transport: Planning and Operations, 2 (1-2), 87-109 (Co-authored with S. Voβ.)

“Short-term prediction of urban traffic variability: Stochastic volatility modeling approach.” Journal of Transportation Engineering, 136 (7), 606-613. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

“Dynamic analysis of air travel demand in competitive island markets.” (2009). Journal of Air

Transport Management, 15 (6), 267-273. “Economy of information in congested transport systems.” (2009). IET Intelligent Transport

Systems. 3 (3), 336-344. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Introduction to the feature issue on design and evaluation of road network pricing.” (2009).

Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking. 10 (1), 1-4. “Design and evaluation of road pricing: State–of-the-art and methodological advances.” (2009). Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking. 10 (1), 5-52. (Co-authored with S. Voβ.) “Evolutionary game-theoretic model for dynamic congestion pricing in multi-class traffic networks.” (2009). Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking. 10 (1), 103-121. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.) “Joint design and pricing of urban highways with spatial and user group heterogeneity.” (2009). Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking. 10 (1), 141-160. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Consumer demand analysis of complementarity-substitution relationships among passenger transport modes in Greece.” (2008). International Journal of Transport Economics. 35 (3), 415- 449. “The Athens Dynamic Traffic Map for multimodal travel information services.” (2008). Journal

of Maps. v2008, 119-133. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Fuzzy modeling approach for combined forecasting of urban traffic flow.” (2008). Computer- Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 23 (7), 521-535. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos and L. Dimitriou.) “Social simulations from a reflexive epistemological standpoint.” (2008). American-Eurasian

Journal of Scientific Research. 3 (1), 92-96. (Co-authored with Ch. Tsekeris and Ι. Katerelos.) “Treating uncertain demand information in origin-destination matrix estimation with traffic counts.” (2008). Journal of Transportation Engineering. 134 (8), 327-337. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Modeling participation and consumption in the Greek inter-urban public transportation market.”

(2008). Journal of Public Transportation. 11 (2), 85-104. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.) “Adaptive hybrid fuzzy rule-based system approach for modeling and predicting urban traffic flow.” (2008). Transportation Research Part C. 16 (5), 554-573. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

3 “Reliable stochastic design of road network systems.” (2008). International Journal of Industrial

and Systems Engineering. 3 (5), 549-574. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Real-time traffic volatility forecasting in urban arterial networks.” (2006). Transportation

Research Record. 1964, 146-156. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Measuring variability in urban traffic flow by use of principal component analysis.” (2006).

Journal of Transportation and Statistics. 9 (1), 49-62. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Methodology for processing archived ITS data for reliability analysis in urban networks.” (2006). IEE Proceedings Intelligent Transport Systems. 153 (1), 105-112. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Gravity models for dynamic transport planning: development and implementation in urban networks.” (2006). Journal of Transport Geography. 14 (2), 152-160. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Comment on short-term arterial travel time prediction for advanced traveler information

systems.” (2006). Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 10 (1), 41-43. “Demand-oriented approach to estimate the operational performance of urban networks with and without traffic information provision.” (2005). European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 5 (2), 81-96. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Discussion of multiple-vehicle origin-destination matrix estimation from traffic counts using genetic algorithm.” (2005). Journal of Transportation Engineering. 131 (10), 809-810. (Co- authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Methodology for validating dynamic origin-destination matrix estimation models with implications for advanced traveler information systems.” (2005). Transportation Planning and Technology. 28 (2), 93-112. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Quasidynamic network assignment procedure with transient demand matrices.” (2005). Journal

of Transportation Engineering. 131 (2), 89-100. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Enhanced dynamic origin-destination matrix updating with long-term flow information.”

(2004). Transportation Research Record. 1882, 159-166. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for the simultaneous optimization of the O-D trip matrix estimation.” (2004). Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 19 (6), 421-435. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Real-time dynamic origin-destination matrix adjustment with simulated and actual link flows in urban networks.” (2003). Transportation Research Record. 1857, 117-127. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Framework for analysing reliability and information degradation of demand matrices in extended transport networks.” (2003). Transport Reviews. 23 (1), 89-103. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

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Contributions in Collective Volumes

“Air Transport”. (2011) In: Market Conditions and Competition in the Greek Economy, Ch. 19, Part Β: Energy, Trade, Construction, Transport, Edited by C. Kanellopoulos, Reports Series, 67, Athens: KEPE, 363-387 (Co-authored with K. Vogiatzoglou). “Road Freight Transport”. (2011) In: Market Conditions and Competition in the Greek Economy, Ch. 17, Part Β: Energy, Trade, Construction, Transport, Edited by C. Kanellopoulos, Reports Series, 67, Athens: KEPE, 306-325 (Co-authored with K. Vogiatzoglou).

“Intelligent transport and regional digital convergence: A challenge for the Greek Peripheries.” (2010). In Regional Planning-Urban Planning-Environment in the 21st Century: Greece- Mediterranean, Edited by E. Beriatos and Μ. Papageorgiou, Volos: Thessaly University Press, 139-150.

“Fixed and variable toll pricing in road networks with direct search metaheuristics.” (2009). In Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Edited by M. Geiger et al. Berlin- Heidelberg: Springer, 45-61. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.) “Combined genetic computation of microscopic trip demand in urban networks.” (2008). In Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management.

Edited by A. Fink and F. Rothlauf. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer, 3-21. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Genetically optimized infrastructure design strategies in degradable transport networks.” (2008). In Advances in Computational Intelligence in Transport, Logistics, and Supply Chain

Management. Edited by A. Fink and F. Rothlauf. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer, 23-43. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Genetic computation of road network design and pricing Stackelberg games with multi-class users.” (2008). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4974. Edited by Giacobini et al. Berlin- Heidelberg: Springer, 669-678. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Simultaneous origin-destination matrix estimation in dynamic traffic networks with evolutionary computing.” (2007). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4448. Edited by

Giacobini et al. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 668–677. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Evolutionary combinatorial programming for discrete road network design with reliability requirements.” (2007). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4448. Edited by Giacobini et al. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 678–687. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Transport and Virtual Technologies.” (2007) In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of . Edited by G. Ritzer. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell-Wiley Publishing, Blackwell Reference Online 2009 Update. (Co-authored with Ch. Tsekeris) “Transport and Development.” (2007) In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by G.

Ritzer. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell-Wiley Publishing, Blackwell Reference Online 2009 Update.

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Contributions in Development Plans and related projects

Size of Competition in the Greek Economy (2010). Author of the chapters “Road Freight Transport” and “Air Transport” (Co-authored with K. Vogiatzoglou), Athens: Ministry of Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping.

The Regional Dimension of the National Strategic Reference Framework. (2010). Author of the chapters “Accessibility Improvement” and “Digital Convergence”, Athens: Ministry of Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping.

Shipping – Transport: Sectoral Contribution to the Greek Economy and Medium-Term Prospects. (2008). The study was coordinated by S. Spathi. Athens: Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance. Study for the Determinant Factors of Import and Export Trade Performances of Greece: Econometric Analysis. (2007). The study was coordinated by Dr. S. Savva-Balfoussias. Athens: Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance. Other Scholarly Publications

“The role of Greece in the development of infrastructure networks in South-Eastern Europe.” (2010). Agora Without Frontiers, 16, (forthcoming).

“Environmental and energy impacts of transport: International and domestic experience and

management policies.” (2009). Aeihoros, 12, 130-143.

“Methodology for estimating traffic network performance under routing information.” (2005). Technika Chronika – Part I. 25 (1), 87-101 (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos). “Design criteria of automatic control systems in urban traffic.” (2002). Bulletin of the Hellenic Association of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. 349, 56-63 (Co-authored with P. Paraskevopoulos). Discussion Papers

Spatial Agglomeration of Manufacturing in Greece. (KEPE Discussion Paper No. 121) (Co- authored with K. Vogiatzoglou.) Probing into Greece’s National Strategic Reference Framework. A Suggestion to Review the Regional Allocation of Funds. (KEPE Discussion Paper No. 118) (Co-authored with P. Prodromídis.) Greek airports: Efficiency measurement and analysis of determinants. (KEPE Discussion Paper No. 110).

Public expenditure competition in the Greek transport sector: Inter-modal and spatial considerations. (KEPE Discussion Paper No. 101). Consumer demand analysis of complementarities and substitutions in the Greek passenger

transport market. (KEPE Discussion Paper No. 94.)

6 Presentations - Publications in International Conference Proceedings

“Optimal city zoning and network structure using macroscopic traffic modeling.” (2011). In: Proceedings of the Kuhmo-Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics, International Transportation Economics Association, Stockholm, Sweden. (Co-authored with N. Geroliminis.) “Benchmarking and explaining the efficiency of container ports in South-Eastern Europe.” (2011). In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Shipping Intermodalism and Ports ECONSHIP 2011, International Association of Maritime Economists, University of Aegean, Chios. (Co-authored with S. Niavis.)

“Disaggregate analysis of gasoline consumption demand in Greece.” (2010). In Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Transportation Research in Greece, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Volos.

“Greek airports: Efficiency measurement and analysis of determinants.” (2010). In Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Transportation Research in Greece, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Volos.

“Multi-regional agent-based modeling of household and firm location choices with endogenous transport costs.” (2010). In Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, European Regional Science Association, Jönköping, Sweden. (Co-authored with K. Vogiatzoglou and S. Bekiros).

“Airport efficiency and public investment in Greece.” (2010). In Proceedings of the 2010 International Kuhmo–Nectar Conference on Transport Economics, University of , .

“Simulation-based design of large-scale supply chain networks: The case of automobile industry.” (2010). In Proceedings of the 9th Special Conference of the Hellenic Operational Research Society on “Quantitative Models in the Managerial and Financial Decision Making”, Technological Educational Institute of , Agios Nikolaos, Crete. (Co-authored with P. Ntemoli).

“Road pricing: Implications for public transport.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Systems for Public Transport, Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong. (Co-authored with S. Voβ.) “Models to predict traffic volatility in transportation networks.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Redondo Beach, California. (Co- authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Intermodal competition of public investments in the transport sector.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 4th International Kuhmo–Nectar Conference on Transport and Urban Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen. “Road pricing – A survey.” (2008). In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies: Transportation and Management Science. Edited by Lo, H.P., Leung, S.C.H. and Tam, S.M.L. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Society for Transportation

7 Studies, 495-504. (Co-authored with S. Voβ.) “Dynamic econometric analysis of freight transportation flow generation in Greece.” (2008). In Proceedings of the4th International Congress on Transportation Research in Greece. Hellenic

Institute of Transport. Athens, Greece, 273-284. (Co-authored with A. Tsouma and S. Savva- Balfoussia.) “Elastic multi-user stochastic equilibrium toll design with direct search meta-heuristics.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 8th EU/MEeeting on Metaheuristics in the Service Industry. Edited by M.J.

Geiger and W. Habenicht. University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, 9-16. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.) “Dynamic congestion pricing based on user-optimal stochastic learning models.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 4th International Kuhmo–Nectar Conference on Pricing, Financing,

Regulating Transport Infrastructures and Services. University of , Italy. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.) “Models for surveillance of variability in motorway traffic flow.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 9th European Control Conference. Control Association. Kos, Greece. (Co- authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Road pricing and congestion pricing in urban freeways.” (2007). In Proceedings of the International Conference “Roads of the Future”. Greek Road Federation. Athens, Greece. (Co- authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Telematics systems architecture and decision support in urban transportation networks.” (2007). In Proceedings of the International Conference “Roads of the Future”. Greek Road Federation. Athens, Greece. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.) “Competitive network design in short-sea liner markets using agent-based game-theoretic models.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference “Competitiveness and Complementarity of Transport Modes - Perspectives for the Development of Intermodal Transport”. University of Aegean, Chios, Greece (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos). “Discrete choice modeling of the inter-urban public transportation demand of Greek households.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference “Competitiveness and

Complementarity of Transport Modes - Perspectives for the Development of Intermodal Transport”. University of Aegean, Chios, Greece. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou.) “Evolutionary game-theoretic model for performance reliability assessment of road networks.” (2007). In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability. The Hague, Netherlands (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos). “Genetic algorithm-based micro-simulation approach for estimating turning proportions at signalized intersections.” (2006). In Proceedings of the 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in

Transportation Systems. Delft, The Netherlands, 159-164. (Co-authored with L. Dimitriou and A. Stathopoulos.)

“Real-time traffic volatility forecasting in urban arterial networks.” (2006). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington,

8 D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Enhanced dynamic O-D matrix updating using long-term flow information.” (2004). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “On-line performance measurement models for urban arterial networks.” (2004). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 83rd Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Skabardonis.) “Long-term travel demand forecasting in general dynamic transportation networks.” (2003). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Real-time dynamic O-D matrix adjustment using simulated and actual link flows in urban-scale networks.” (2003). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Traffic control and demand profile changes: The case of Athens.” (2002). In Proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control 15th World Congress. 19. Edited by E.F

Camacho, L. Basañez and J.A. de la Puente. Oxford: Elsevier. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “Deterministic semi-dynamic network assignment model using transient O-D matrices.” (2002). In Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board 81st Annual Meeting. National Research Council. Washington, D.C. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.) “A comparison of metaheuristic approaches for estimating demand matrices in transport networks.” (2002). In Proceedings of the 1st International Congress on Transportation Research

in Greece. Hellenic Institute of Transport. Athens, Greece, 24-36. (Co-authored with A. Stathopoulos.)

Presentations - Publications in Other Conference Proceedings “Tools and suggestions for reviewing the regional allocation of funds in Greece’s National Strategic Reference Framework.” (2011). In: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Greek Section of the European Regional Science Association, Institute of Regional Development, Panteion University, Athens. (Co-authored with P. Prodromídis.)

“Household expenditures for transport in Greece: Inter-temporal evolution and interregional perspective.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 287- 294. “Public investment expenditures for transport in Greece: Inter-temporal evolution, interregional allocation and statistical analysis.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on

Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 295-302. “Transport and regional economic development: Theoretical background and analytical 9 framework.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 313- 320. “Reflexive influences on spatial planning.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 431-437. (Co-authored with Ch. Tsekeris.) “Environmental and energy impacts of transport: International and domestic experiences and management policies.” (2009). In Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Conference on Planning

and Regional Development. Edited by V. Kotzamanis et al. Volos: Thessaly University Press, 1065-1072. (Co-authored with A. Tsouma.)

Refereeing activities Environment and Planning A, Computers & Operations Research, Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking, European Journal of Operational Research, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research, Science and Engineering Ethics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation Research Part C, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Transportation Research Record – Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Journal of Transportation Engineering, Journal of Airport Management, Journal of Maps, Journal of Transport Geography, Transportmetrica, Transport Policy, International Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment, Public Transport: Planning and Operations, Contemporary , Journal of Air Transport Management.

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