Education & Qualifications

2015 – BME, Vehicle Engineering MSc

2021 – BME, PhD degree, Transportation and Vehicle Sciences

Research Areas

Road traffic modeling and control

Traffic and vehicle simulation

Co-simulation and mixed reality

Professional Experience

2012 – 2014 – MTA SZTAKI – Student, part time

2015 – 2016 – Chalmers University of Technology – Project Assistant

2016 – 2018 – AVL Hungary – Software and Function Developer

2018 – 2021 – BME, Dept. of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems – Project Assistant

2021 – 2022 – Chalmers University of Technology – Postdoctoral Researcher

2022 – BME, Dept. of Control for Transportation and Vehicle Systems – Research Fellow

Teaching Activity

Engineering Mathematics (MSc)

Mathematical Methods I-II. (PhD)

Awards, honors

2014 – FISITA Student Travel Bursary

2020 – ÚNKP-20-2

2021 – Real-Time Robust and AdaptIve Learning in ElecTricVEhicles (RITE), CHAIR-AoA Transport, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

2023 – Climate impact of speed limit reduction – Google Research Award

2024 – EKÖP 24-4-II

2025 – Erasmus+ Staff Mobility (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Projects, scholarships

“Bolyai János” research scholarship (2025-2028). Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Google – BME Traffic Lab research cooperation (2023-2024). Road traffic emission modeling using SUMO traffic simulator and HBEFA emission model to determine optimal speed limits

metaCCAZE (2024–2027). Flexibly adapted MetaInnovations, use cases, collaborative business and governance models to accelerate deployment of smart and shared Zero Emission mobility for passengers and freight. European Union, Horizon Europe. https://www.metaccaze-project.eu/

deployEMDS (2023–2026). European Mobility Data Space deployment. European Union, Digital Europe Programme. https://deployemds.eu/

Green LaMiS (2024–2026). Greening the last mile of public home services delivery. European Union + national co-funding, Interreg Central Europe Programme. https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/green-lamis/

smartUrbanity (2025-2027) Advancing the 15-Minute City with Citizens and Digital Twins. European Union, Horizon, Driving Urban Transitions Partnership. https://www.smarturbanity.com/

2019-1.1.1-PIACI KFI (2019-2022) Dynamic, adaptive traffic control services and evaluation tools based on digitally connected data sources. National development and innovation project

Highlighted Publications

Varga, B., Ormándi, T., Tettamanti, T., Aba, A., & Esztergár-Kiss, D. (2025).
Strategic trip planning for commuting considering user preferences of employees in organizations.
CITIES: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN POLICY AND PLANNING, 165. [SJR: D1]
Tettamanti, T., Tőkés, L., & Varga, B. (2024).
Fleet data based traffic modeling.
COMMUNICATIONS IN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH, 4. [SJR: D1]
Varga, B., Pereira, M., Kulcsár, B., Pariota, L., & Péni, T. (2023).
Data-Driven Distance Metrics for Kriging-Short-Term Urban Traffic State Prediction.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, 24(6), 6268-6279. [SJR: D1]
Varga, B., & Tettamanti, T. (2023).
Jam Propagation Analysis With Mesoscopic Traffic Simulation.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, 24(12), 14162-14173. [SJR: D1]
Ormándi, T., & Varga, B. (2023).
The importance of V2X simulation: an in-depth comparison of intersection control algorithms using a high-fidelity communication simulation.
VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS, 44. [SJR: D1]