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Biography
Prof. Nikitas is a Professor of Sustainable Transport Futures for Huddersfield Business School (HBS). He is a world’s top 2% career-long researcher according to the latest Stanford/Elsevier c-score based ranking list (#564 all-time researcher in Logistics and Transportation) while he was also ranked #197, #146, #141 and #109 globally in the same area in Stanford/Elsevier’s yearly lists for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively. He is the Founding Director of the Future Mobility Lab, a new sustainable transport and smart mobility research initiative. He was the Deputy Director of the School’s Behavioural Research Centre and partner of the University’s European Structural and Investment Funds project LCR LEP Supply Chain. He submitted a flagship 4* REF Impact Case for his School in the REF 2021 exercise dealing with Active Transportation in Greece and beyond. Prof. Nikitas is a key figure in the Transport and Logistics Suite degree provision in all study levels.
Prof. Nikitas is the Chair of the Executive Commitee of UTSG (Universities' Transport Study Group) with a tenure between 2022 and 2025. Prof. Nikitas has the great honour to lead the premier transport teaching and research group in the UK and Ireland including 60 academic institution members such as Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Imperial, Loughborough, TCD, Leeds and Southampton to name a few. The correspondence of UTSG is international and connects thousands of transport experts daily through its e-mail list.
Prof. Nikitas is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Transport & Health, the top journal that combines transport with health and wellbeing principles. He is also in the Editorial Boards of three highly reputable Elsevier Journals 'Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice', 'Research in Transportation Business & Management' and 'Case Studies on Transport Policy'. He has also organised and co-organised national and international conferences and conference sessions many times.
Prof. Nikitas has produced more than 130 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. He is also the Academic Adviser of the West Midlands Combined Authority in future mobility and travel behaviour change and leads a pioneering research programme on sustainable mobility and mobility hubs funded by Kirklees Council that intends to improve significantly transport provision in the town of Huddersfield.
Earlier in his career Prof. 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 Prof. 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. Now he is a Visiting Professor for Chalmers University of Technology, one of the true Scandinavian academic powerhouses, working on joint papers and projects with the team of the Design & Human Factors Division.
Prof. 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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research Expertise and Interests
- Sustainable Mobility
- Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
- Shared Mobility
- Mobility-as-a-Service
- Transport and Social Exclusion
- Road Pricing
- Mobility Futures
- Intelligent Transport
- Bike-sharing and bicycling
- Vehicle automation and its societal importance
- Road pricing and travel demand measures
- Older people and mobility
- Transport and social exclusion
- Sustainable mobilities and urban development
- Acceptability, attitudes, social norms and pro-social value orientations in transport
- Accident and prevention analysis for vulnerable transport users
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Projects
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Centre for Biominetic Societal Futures
Towns-Andrews, L., Kusev, P., Kara, A., Herath, D., Validi, S., Jabbar, A., Nikitas, A., Roper, S., Ginger, M., Phillips, R., Du, C., Amaratunga, D., Haigh, R., Murphy, A., Hill, R., Parkinson, S., Johnson, A., Bryan, H., Thomas, P., McIntyre, D., Jeffries, L., Bailey, R., Townsley, J., Unver, E., Goswami, P., Roach, J., Grimm, V., Worley, C., Siebers, P., Bardone, E., Madsen, J. K., Neumann, M., Seri, R., Durrant, R., Wortley, R., Sidebottom, A., Ekblom, P., Pease, K., Taylor, M., Silke, A., Dewandre, N. & Hemachandra, K.
1/10/21 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
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What psychological and socio-demographic factors can influence people’s intention to use ridesharing during the war? A case study in Ukraine
Dadashzadeh, N., Volkova, N., Ekmekci, M., Horpenko, D., Woods, L. & Nikitas, A., 1 Feb 2025, In: Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 109, p. 211-230 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A worldwide review of formal national street classification plans enhanced via an analytical hierarchy process: Street classification as a tool for more sustainable cities
Tsigdinos, S., Salamouras, G., Chatziioannou, I., Bakogiannis, E. & Nikitas, A., 1 Nov 2024, In: Cities. 154, 15 p., 105371.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Can Driverless Transport Be Sustainable? A Triple Bottom Line Problematisation
Nikitas, A., 4 Jun 2024, Sustainable Automated and Connected Transport. Thomopoulos, N., Attard, M. & Shiftan, Y. (eds.). Emerald Publishing, Vol. 19. p. 85-100 16 p. (Transport and Sustainability; vol. 19).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and Infrastructure Needs: Exploring Road Network Changes and Policy Interventions
Chatziioannou, I., Tsigdinos, S., Tzouras, P. G., Nikitas, A. & Bakogiannis, E., 16 May 2024, Deception in Autonomous Transport Systems : Threats, Impacts and Mitigation Policies. Parkinson, S., Nikitas, A. & Vallati, M. (eds.). Springer, Cham, p. 65-83 19 p. (Wireless Networks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Contextualizing urban road network hierarchy and its role for sustainable transport futures: A Systematic Literature Review Using Bibliometric Analysis and Content Analysis Tools
Tsigdinos, S., Nikitas, A. & Bakogiannis, E., 18 Jun 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Frontiers of Engineering Management. 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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The Deceitful Connected and Autonomous Vehicle, Its Mischiefs and How to Deal with Them
Alexandros Nikitas (Speaker)
2 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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56th Annual Universities' Transport Study Group (UTSG) Conference
Alexandros Nikitas (Organiser)
1 Jul 2024 → 3 Jul 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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The role of ridesharing in improving transportation resilience during a crisis
Nima Dadashzadeh (Speaker), Daniil Horpenko (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Nataliia Volkova (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Mustafa Ekmekci (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Lee Woods (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Alexandros Nikitas (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
11 Jul 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Chalmers University of Technology
Alexandros Nikitas (Visiting Professor)
15 Oct 2022 → 15 Nov 2022Activity: External Appointments and Visits › International Collaboration
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Universities Transport Study Group (External organisation)
Alexandros Nikitas (Chair)
2022 → 2025Activity: Membership types › Membership of board
Press/Media
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To dock or not to dock? The lowdown on dockless bike-share schemes
4/06/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Backed by billions, Uber's Jump electric bikes may conquer London
24/05/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Mobike gives up on bike hire in Manchester - Financial Times
5/09/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research