Ph.D. - 2016
Dimitra received her Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She obtained her Ph.D in Civil Engineering at Purdue University. Throughout her years of study as an undergraduate and graduate research assistant, Dimitra has worked on several projects involving public transportation and airport operations, and transportation planning and evaluation, respectively. Dimitra's general research interests include public transportation planning and development, travel behavior, sustainability and transportation energy, transportation equity, and transportation statistics and visualization. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at West Virginia University.
Her dissertation:
Assessing Public Transportation Options for Intercity Travel in U.S. Rural and Small Urban Areas: A Multimodal, Multiobjective, and People-Oriented Evaluation
Selected Publications:
Pyrialakou, V.D., Gkartzonikas, C., Gatlin, J.D., and Gkritza, K. (2020). "Perceptions of safety on a shared road: Driving, cycling, or walking near an autonomous vehicle. Journal of Safety Research, (72), 249-258.
Losada Rojas, L.L, Gkartzonikas, C., Pyrialakou, V.D. , and Gkritza, K. (2019). “Exploring Intercity Passengers’ Attitudes and Loyalty to Intercity Passenger Rail: Evidence From An On-Board Survey.” Transport Policy, (73), 71–83.
Pyrialakou, V.D., Gkritza, K., and Liu, S.S. (2019). "The use of focus groups to foster stakeholder engagement in intercity passenger rail planning." Case Studies on Transport Policy, (7)(2), 505-517.
Pyrialakou, V.D., Gkritza, K., and Fricker, J.D. (2016). "Accessibility, mobility, and realized travel behavior: Assessing transport disadvantage from a policy perspective." Journal of Transport Geography, (51), 252-269.
Krishnan, V., Kastrouni, E., Pyrialakou, V.D., Gkritza, K., and McCalley, J.D. (2015). "An optimization model of energy and transportation systems: Assessing the high-speed rail impacts in the United States." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, (54), 131-156.
