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Georgios Fontaras

Georgios Fontaras

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
44
Citations
6758
World Ranking
5869
National Ranking
186

Overview

Georgios Fontaras is affiliated with the Joint Research Centre in Italy and specializes primarily in the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Automotive Engineering. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Transportation.

The main topics of Fontaras's work include vehicle emissions and performance, electric vehicles and infrastructure, energy, environment, and transportation policies, air quality and health impacts, transportation planning and optimization, traffic control and management, and electric and hybrid vehicle technologies.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Fontaras cover a range of topics in sustainability, energy efficiency, and transportation systems. Notable publications include:

  • Impact of climatic conditions on prospects for integrated photovoltaics in electric vehicles, 2022, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • The energy impact of adaptive cruise control in real-world highway multiple-car-following scenarios, 2020, European Transport Research Review
  • The impact of automation and connectivity on traffic flow and CO2 emissions. A detailed microsimulation study, 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • Understanding the origins and variability of the fuel consumption gap: lessons learned from laboratory tests and a real-driving campaign, 2020, Environmental Sciences Europe
  • "The impact of energy efficiency and decarbonisation policies on the European road transport sector", 2023, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice

Frequent coauthors working closely with Fontaras are Dimitrios Komnos, Alessandro Tansini, Biagio Ciuffo, Jelica Pavlovic, and Stijn Broekaert. These collaborations have contributed to a body of research spanning numerous publications across various subjects within their fields of study.

Fontaras regularly publishes in several key venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
  • Energies
  • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Energy Conversion and Management

Best Publications

  • Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from passenger cars in Europe – Laboratory versus real-world emissions

    Georgios Fontaras;Nikiforos-Georgios Zacharof;Biagio Ciuffo

  • Effects of biodiesel on passenger car fuel consumption, regulated and non-regulated pollutant emissions over legislated and real-world driving cycles

    Georgios Fontaras;Georgios Karavalakis;Marina Kousoulidou;Theodoros Tzamkiozis

  • Experimental evaluation of hybrid vehicle fuel economy and pollutant emissions over real-world simulation driving cycles

    Georgios Fontaras;Panayotis Pistikopoulos;Zissis Samaras

  • Real world emissions performance of heavy-duty Euro VI diesel vehicles

    Theodoros Grigoratos;Georgios Fontaras;Barouch Giechaskiel;Nikiforos Zacharof

  • Use of portable emissions measurement system (PEMS) for the development and validation of passenger car emission factors

    Marina Kousoulidou;Georgios Fontaras;Leonidas Ntziachristos;Pierre Bonnel

  • Development and review of Euro 5 passenger car emission factors based on experimental results over various driving cycles

    Georgios Fontaras;Vicente Franco;Panagiota Dilara;Giorgio Martini

  • Gaseous Emissions from Light-Duty Vehicles: Moving from NEDC to the New WLTP Test Procedure

    Alessandro Marotta;Jelica Pavlovic;Biagio Ciuffo;Simone Serra

  • Biodiesel blend effects on common-rail diesel combustion and emissions

    Marina Kousoulidou;Georgios Fontaras;Leonidas Ntziachristos;Zissis Samaras

  • On the way to 130 g CO2/km—Estimating the future characteristics of the average European passenger car

    Georgios Fontaras;Zissis Samaras

  • How much difference in type-approval CO2 emissions from passenger cars in Europe can be expected from changing to the new test procedure (NEDC vs. WLTP)?

    J. Pavlovic;B. Ciuffo;G. Fontaras;V. Valverde

  • Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of passenger cars over the New Worldwide Harmonized Test Protocol

    D. Tsokolis;S. Tsiakmakis;A. Dimaratos;G. Fontaras

  • Effects of low concentration biodiesel blends application on modern passenger cars. Part 3: Impact on PAH, nitro-PAH, and oxy-PAH emissions

    Georgios Karavalakis;Georgios Fontaras;Dimitrios Ampatzoglou;Marina Kousoulidou

  • Assessment of on-road emissions of four Euro V diesel and CNG waste collection trucks for supporting air-quality improvement initiatives in the city of Milan

    Georgios Fontaras;Giorgio Martini;Urbano Manfredi;Alessandro Marotta

  • The evolution of European passenger car characteristics 2000–2010 and its effects on real-world CO2 emissions and CO2 reduction policy

    Georgios Fontaras;Panagiota Dilara

  • The effect of electrified mobility on the relationship between traffic conditions and energy consumption

    Chiara Fiori;Vincenzo Arcidiacono;Georgios Fontaras;Michail Makridis

  • A simulation-based methodology for quantifying European passenger car fleet CO2 emissions

    Stefanos Tsiakmakis;Georgios Fontaras;Biagio Ciuffo;Zissis Samaras

  • Effects of low concentration biodiesel blend application on modern passenger cars. Part 1: feedstock impact on regulated pollutants, fuel consumption and particle emissions.

    Georgios Fontaras;Marina Kousoulidou;Georgios Karavalakis;Theodoros Tzamkiozis

  • The impact of soy-based biodiesel on PAH, nitro-PAH and oxy-PAH emissions from a passenger car operated over regulated and nonregulated driving cycles

    George Karavalakis;George Deves;Georgios Fontaras;Stamoulis Stournas

  • Effect of biodiesel origin on regulated and particle-bound PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon) emissions from a Euro 4 passenger car.

    Georgios Karavalakis;Evangelos Bakeas;Georgios Fontaras;Stamos Stournas

  • The difference between reported and real-world CO2 emissions: How much improvement can be expected by WLTP introduction?

    Georgios Fontaras;Biagio Ciuffo;Nikiforos Zacharof;Stefanos Tsiakmakis

  • A quantitative analysis of the European Automakers’ voluntary commitment to reduce CO2 emissions from new passenger cars based on independent experimental data

    Georgios Fontaras;Zissis Samaras

Frequent Co-Authors

Zissis Samaras
Zissis Samaras Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Leonidas Ntziachristos
Leonidas Ntziachristos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Giorgio Martini
Giorgio Martini European Commission Joint Research Centre
Barouch Giechaskiel
Barouch Giechaskiel European Commission
Tomer Toledo
Tomer Toledo Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Hongming Xu
Hongming Xu University of Birmingham
Constantini Samara
Constantini Samara Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Anastasia Zabaniotou
Anastasia Zabaniotou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ludovic Leclercq
Ludovic Leclercq Université Gustave Eiffel

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