Ioannis Tsouros

Transportation and mobility research for better decisions.
Transportation
Mobility
Research
Decision-making
Policy
Equity

Chios port — 38.37°N 26.14°E
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01 — Research

How people travel, what we can learn from it, and how we can make it better.

01Travel behaviour and choice modellingPreferences · time use · acceptance 02New mobility servicesMaaS · automated vehicles · micromobility 03Mobility data and simulationGPS trajectories · activity-based models 04Transport policy assessmentIncentives · pricing · sustainable transport 05Equity and justiceInclusive mobility · gender · social justice
02 — Publications
2026Reconstructing semantic mobility timelines with semi-live incremental processingA pipeline that turns raw phone location streams into stays and trips, in batch and near-real time.IEEE Access ↗ 2021MaaS users: who they are and how much they are willing-to-payWho the likely users of Mobility as a Service are, and what they would pay for it.TR Part A ↗ 2020To what extent do people value sustainable-resourced materials? A choice experiment with cars and mobile phones across six countriesA choice experiment on how much people value sustainably sourced materials in cars and phones.J. Cleaner Prod. ↗ 2020Prototype business models for Mobility-as-a-ServiceWhat a viable business model for Mobility as a Service could look like.TR Part A ↗ 2020Who will buy alternative fueled or automated vehicles: a modular, behavioral modeling approachA behavioural model of who is likely to buy alternative-fuel and automated vehicles.TR Part A ↗

72 publications · 25 journal articles · 1,280 citations · h-index 13 — Google Scholar ↗

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Citations per year · 2026 to November
03 — Projects
2025 –MobiNexusConnecting academia and industry around shared mobility, electrification and automated vehicles.Horizon Europe ↗ 2023 – 26ExtremeXPExperimentation-driven analytics, applied to GPS trajectory processing for flexible transport.Horizon Europe ↗ 2023 – 26SPINETravel surveys, trip detection and micro-incentives for sustainable commuting in the project cities.Horizon Europe ↗ 2023 – 26SUMShared mobility integrated with public transport; Larnaca Living Lab.Horizon Europe ↗ 2023 – 26GREEN-LOGDynamic pricing for sustainable urban logistics in Ghent and Mechelen.Horizon Europe ↗ 2022 – 25MOVE2CCAMAn impact assessment tool for connected, cooperative and automated mobility.Horizon Europe ↗ 2021 – 24FRONTIERNetwork and traffic management for connected and automated vehicles; pilots in Oxfordshire, Athens and Antwerp.Horizon 2020 ↗ 2019 – 23HARMONYTransport simulation for new mobility services; the Tactical Passenger Simulator and a fast destination-choice model.Horizon 2020 ↗
2019 – 22ENIRISSTNational research infrastructure for shipping, supply chain and transport.National infrastructure
2017 – 20MaaS4EUSmartphone travel data collection and demand modelling for Mobility as a Service.Horizon 2020 ↗ 2015 – 18OPTIMUMTraveller profiles and models of sensitivity to dynamic toll prices.Horizon 2020 ↗
2011 – 15GreTIAExperiments, simulation, behavioural models and a policy platform for transport in island areas.Sustainable transport in islands

Twelve funded research projects since 2011: first as PhD and postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Aegean, since 2022 as Lead Scientist at MobyX.

04 — Tools, methods, software
Behavioural modelling
Discrete and hybrid choice · latent class and segmentation · willingness to pay · activity and time use
Surveys and experiments
Stated-preference and menu-based experiments · efficient designs · smartphone travel surveys · incentives and nudging
Simulation
Activity-based and agent-based · synthetic populations · destination and mode choice · traffic microsimulation
Mobility and spatial data
GPS trajectories · trip and mode detection · GTFS matching · GIS, isochrones and accessibility · anonymisation
Policy analysis
Scenario assessment · dynamic pricing · decision-support dashboards · stakeholder workshops
Research softwarebuilds
UtilityLab ↗ · Pythia · HarmonyMS · gtfs2geojson · Location Data Anonymizer
Modelling toolsuses
Biogeme · R · LatentGOLD · SPSS · Matlab · MATSim · VISUM
Code and platformsuses
Python · Dash · C++ · PostgreSQL · LimeSurvey · Qualtrics
Previews
UtilityLab landing page: design a stated choice experiment, from structure to survey
UtilityLabDesigning stated choice experiments
Map of one day reconstructed by Pythia: stays at home and university joined by bus and walking trips, with detected bus lines
PythiaGPS trajectory analysis pipeline
Interactive map of walking catchments and bus lines around the Exarcheia metro station, Athens
Exarcheia metro stationLocation analysis for Athens Metro Line 4
3D map of a psychogeography walk along the Garyllis corridor, Limassol, with participant markers coloured by feeling
CORESpaces WalksPsychogeography walks · with MaaSLab
3D map of a junction in Attica with red-light camera positions and their fields of view
Traffic cameras in AtticaOpen map of enforcement cameras
Policy platform dashboard for Chios: scenario controls, daily indicators, and maps of cars by zone and traffic by link
Sustainable Transport Policy PlatformPolicy evaluation · PhD work
05 — Teaching

Adjunct lecturer, 2019–2021, at the University of the Aegean and the University of West Attica: intermodal transport, transportation systems analysis, GIS and telematics.

Teaching assistant, 2012–2018, in transportation demand modelling, demand analysis, and data, models and decisions.

06 — About

Dr. Ioannis Tsouros is a transportation researcher working on how people travel and how policy can change it. He is Lead Scientist and co-founder of MobyX, and an external scientist at the Transportation and Decision-Making Laboratory of the University of the Aegean, where he received his PhD in 2018.

07 — Contact
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