Education & Qualifications

  • M.Sc. in Transportation Engineering 1998
  • PhD. in Transportation Engineering 2007
  • DSc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2020

Research Areas

  • Road traffic control, road traffic automation

Professional Experience

  • Full professor (DSc.) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering
  • Scientific advisor at HUN-REN Institute For Computer Science and Control

Teaching Activity

  • Road Traffic Control I-II. (BSc)
  • Mathematical Methods I-II. (PhD)
  • Modeling and Control of Vehicle Transportation Systems (MSc)

Awards, honors

  • Young Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007)
  • Prize of the Computer and Automation Research Institute (2003, 2006, 2008)
  • Young Prize of the Computer and Automation Research Institute (1999, 2004)
  • “Outstanding Young Technological Innovator of the Year 2001” special prize of Alstom Power Hungaria Company

Projects, scholarships

  • 2020 – 2024 – Dynamic, adaptive traffic control services and evaluation tools based on digitally connected data sources (national development and innovation project: 2019-1.1.1-PIACI KFI)
  • 2004-2007 RPC (Reactor Pressure Control)PAZRT, I&C
  • 2000-2004 UTS (Universal Test System) PAZRT, RRP
  • 2000 Integrated Vehicle Control System, KNORR-BREMSE Kft
  • 2000 TM (Test Machine), PART, RRP
  • 1998-99 RC interface (Representative Configuration interface), PART, RRP
  • 1998 ITG (Startup Test Machine)
  • 1997-98 BER (Safety Monitoring System),
  • Paksi Atomerőmű Rt. (PART)
  • Reaktor Refurbishment Project (RRP)

Highlighted Publications

Zhang, X., Varga, I., & Tettamanti, T. (2026).
Analysis and modeling of human driving behavior in highway merging areas using a combined approach of stochastic methods and artificial intelligence.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES, 39. [SJR: D1]
Csikós, A., Varga, I., & Hangos, K. (2018).
A hybrid model predictive control for traffic flow stabilization and pollution reduction of freeways.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART D-TRANSPORT AND ENVIRONMENT, 59, 174-191. [SJR: D1]
Csikós, A., Varga, I., & Hangos, K. (2015).
Modeling of the dispersion of motorway traffic emission for control purposes.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, 58(Part C), 598-616. [SJR: D1]
Tettamanti, T., Luspay, T., Kulcsar, B., Peni, T., & Varga, I. (2014).
Robust Control for Urban Road Traffic Networks.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, 15(1), 385-398. [SJR: D1]
Szabó, Z., G, S., P, G., I, V., K, H., & J, B. (2010).
Identification and dynamic inversion-based control of a pressurizer at the Paks NPP.
CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE, 18(5), 554-565. [SJR: D1]