Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Dr, MEng, MSc, MA, PGCHE, FHEA, PhD
Behavioural Research Centre Huddersfield Business School The University of Huddersfield Queensgate Huddersfield HD1 3DH
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
Research output per year
15 Last checked 24 January 2021.
Dr Alexandros Nikitas is a Reader in Smart Transport for Huddersfield Business School at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the Deputy Director of the School’s Behavioural Research Centre and co-investigator of the University’s European Structural and Investment Funds project LCR LEP Supply Chain. He is the lead of a flagship REF Impact Case for his School in the forthcoming REF 2021 Exercise dealing with Active Transportation in Greece and Beyond. He also served as the course-leader of the BSc Transport and Logistics Management Programme from 2018 to 2020. Dr Nikitas is in the Editorial Boards of two highly reputable Elsevier Journals 'Research in Transportation Business & Management' and 'Case Studies on Transport Policy' and has produced more than 80 papers and conference outputs in his career thus far. He is conducting research regarding the societal importance of sustainable mobility and autonomous, connected, shared and digitised transport. Earlier in his career Dr Nikitas was a Senior Researcher in Urban Futures and Transportation for Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden where he worked on FP7 and H2020 transport research initiatives including the 13M€ mega-project OPTICITIES. As part of this role he acted as a research advisor and associate coordinator of the Sino-Swedish programme LIP Shanghai initiated by the Swedish Mistra Urban Futures, which is a premier Swedish Centre for Urban Development. During his career Dr Nikitas has also been an invited visiting scholar for Tongji University and Chang’an University in China and EC’s Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. Between 2011 and 2014 he served as a Local Councillor for his hometown Drama, Greece.
Dr Nikitas has an MEng in (Civil) Engineering (University of Durham, 2002), an MSc in Transport, Planning and Engineering (Edinburgh Napier University, 2006), an MA in Applied Social Research in Built Environment with Merit (UWE, 2009) and finally a PhD in the area of Transport and Society (UWE, 2010). His PhD Thesis 'Understanding the Attitudes of Older People to Road Pricing' has received two international research excellence awards by prestigious institutions of academia and practice. During September 2016 he was also acknowledged as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy after completing an in-house PGCHE course with Distinction.
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Alexandros Nikitas (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › PhD Examination
Eric Tchouamou Njoya (Speaker) & Alexandros Nikitas (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Kalliopi Michalakopoulou (Speaker), Alexandros Nikitas (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Iain Reid (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & David Bamford (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Alexandros Nikitas (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › PhD Examination
Alexandros Nikitas (Speaker), Eric Tchouamou Njoya (Speaker) & Samir Dani (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
4/06/19
1 item of Media coverage
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24/05/19
1 item of Media coverage
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