Dr Dimitris Potoglou

Senior Lecturer in Transport and Applied Choice Analysis

: potogloud@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44(0)2920876088
: Room 2.79, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WT

: Media commentator
: Available for postgraduate supervision

Dr Dimitris Potoglou is a Senior Lecturer in Transport and Applied Choice Analysis and Course Director of the MSc Transport and Planning. Prior to joining the School of Geography and Planning, Dimitris worked as a Research Policy-Analyst at RAND Europe, a not-for-profit research institute, and as a post-doctoral fellow at the Delft University of Technology.

His research focuses on transport analysis with funded and published work spanning travel behaviour, transport infrastructure and its benefits to land values, travel and built environment interactions and car ownership including demand for cleaner car technologies.

A parallel stream of his research work has been the design and analysis of stated preference discrete choice and best-worst scaling experiments to better understand individual choices and provide robust evidence in areas critical to public policy and decision-making. He has developed and contributed to several interdisciplinary research projects to study the value of personal information, social care, the impact of biomedical research and privacy and security in real-life contexts spanning health data, internet use and rail-travel.

Dimitris holds a BSc in Environmental Studies (University of the Aegean), an MSc in Environmental Engineering (National Technical University of Athens) and a PhD in Transport Geography (McMaster University).

Education and Qualifications

2014: Postgraduate Certificate for University Teaching and Learning, Cardiff University, UK
2006: PhD Geography, McMaster University, Canada
2001: MSc Environmental Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
1999: BSc Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, Greece

Career overview

2012 - present: Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK
2008 - 2015: Policy Analyst, RAND Europe, UK (part-time 9/2012 - 01/2015)
2006 - 2008: Postdoctoral Researcher, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2002 - 2006: Teaching and Research Assistant, McMaster University, Canada,
2001: Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece
2000: Instructor, Occupational Training Centre "Integration", Greece
1997-1999: Research Assistant, University of the Aegean, Greece

Visiting academic appointments

Visiting Researcher, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno, Italy, 11/2016 (2 weeks)
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Messina, Italy, 03/2016 (2 weeks)
Honorary Lecturer, The University of Sydney Business School, Institute of Transportation and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia 05/2016 (3 weeks)
Guest Researcher, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2008 - 2012

Honours and awards

Nominated for Enriching Students' Life Award, Cardiff University, 2013/14 and 2014/15
Alice Farrands' Research Scholarship, RAND Europe, 2008
Alexander S. Onassis Benefit Foundation, Academic Scholarship, 2002 - 2006
McMaster University, Graduate Scholarship, 2002-2006
Canadian Transportation Research Forum, Jim Davey Award, 2004 and 2005
Hellenic-Canadian Federation of Ontario Academic Award, 2004
University of the Aegean, Graduation Award, 1999
Greek State Institute of Scholarships (IKY), 1997 and 1998

Awards to students

Botakoz Arslangulova (née Abdrazakova), Highly Commended for the RT Wynn Medallion for Best Student–Paper, CILT–Wales National Transport Awards, 2016
Matthew Barron, John Heasman Prize 2015-16, British Parking Association, 2016
Emma Thorpe, RTPI Research Awards First Prize in the Student Category, 2015
Matthew Barron, Sawtooth Software Academic Grant Recipient, 2015
Chao Qi, John Heasman Bursary 2014-15, British Parking Association, 2014
Lucy Baker, RT Wynn Medallion for Best Student-Paper, CILT-Wales National Transport Awards, 2014

Professional memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2014 -
Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics, 2013 -

Speaking engagements

'Privacy of Health Records: Evidence from a pan–European Study', Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath: Evaluating Social Prescribing, 28 November, 2017, Bath
'Privacy of Health Records: Evidence from a pan–European Study', ADRC-Wales: Public Engagement and Social Science Research Challenges and Emerging Solutions, 22 June, 2017, Cardiff
'Privacy of Health Records: Evidence from a pan-European Study', Digital Enlightenment Forum: Trusted Data Management in Health Care, 7 June, 2016, Amsterdam.
'Bus Stop, Property Price and Land Value Tax A Quantile Hedonic Exploration', Transport Statistics User Group Wales, 25 April, 2016, Cardiff.
'How did we get here? Andrea Collins and Dimitris Potoglou talk to Andy Fryers, Hay Festival Winter Weekend, 27 November, 2015, Hay-on-Way.
'Short-stay Car Parking Choice Behaviour: A Case Study of Cardiff City Centre', ParkEx, 21 April, 2015, The NEC, Birmingham.
'Public Preferences for Security and Privacy: Evidence from a Pan-European Study' School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University; Event hosted by the Innovation and Engagement Unit, 11 March, 2015, Cardiff. This talk can be viewed here.
'Preferences for Privacy, Surveillance and Security: A Pan-European Study on the Metro/Train Travel' School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University; Event hosted by the Spatial Analysis Research Group, 19 March, 2015, Cardiff.
'Design of stated preference discrete choice experiments and surveys', School of Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, 13 November 2013, Newcastle.
'Economic value of personal information online: Preliminary findings from three stated preference discrete choice experiments', Institute for Transport Studies, 17 May 2013, Leeds.
'How about an electric car? Review of barriers, policy interventions and an exploratory study in the East of England', Research Centre on Economics of Institutions, University of Rome III, Rome, 22 February 2012.
Keynote Speaker, XIII Scientific Meeting of the Italian Society of Transport Economics (SIET), 16 -17 June 2011, Messina (declined).
'Security, at what cost? Quantifying people's trade-offs across privacy, liberty and security', Modelling World, Transport Modelling Seminars, 17 June 2010, London.
'Security, at what cost? Quantifying people's trade-offs across privacy, liberty and security', US House of Representatives, Washington, DC: Briefed professional staffers of the Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Committee, 12 March 2010, Washington, DC.
'Environmental valuation of goods and services using discrete choice modelling', Dept. of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, 19 January 2010, Mytilene.
'Security, at what cost? Quantifying people's trade-offs across privacy, liberty and security', RAND Europe Board of Trustees, 14 January 2009, London.

Committees and reviewing

Programme Director, MSc Transport and Planning, 2014 –
Member of the Postgraduate Taught Committee, 2014 –
Member of the Postgraduate Taught Programmes Student-Staff Panel, 2013 –

External activity

Member of the US Transportation Research Board's Task Force on Data Privacy, Security and Protection Policy, 2016 -
External Examiner, BSc/MSc Logistics, University of Greenwich, 2016 -
External Examiner, BSc/MSc Logistics, University of Wales Trinity St. David, 2015 -
Executive Committee Member of the Universities Transport Study Group (UTSG), 2014 - 2016
Member of the Programme Committee, International Conference on Geographical Information Systems: Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM), 2016 -
Member of the Editorial Board of the Open Transportation Journal, 2011 - 2015
Methodological Innovations Committee, European Transport Conference, 2011 - 2014
Reviewer for: Transportation Research Part A - Policy and Practise, Journal of Choice Modelling, Journal of Transport Geography, Transport Policy, Transportation Research Part D - Transport and Environment and others.

2018

Potoglou, D.et al. 2018. The impact of public transport infrastructure on land values: using spatial analysis to uncover policy-relevant processes. In: Briasoulis, H., Soulakellis, N. and Kavroudakis, D. eds. The practice of spatial analysis: Essays in memory of Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou.. Springer, pp. 275-293.
Alotaibi, O. and Potoglou, D. 2018. Introducing public transport and relevant strategies in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia: a stakeholders? perspective. Urban, Planning and Transport Research 6(1), pp. 35. (10.1080/21650020.2018.1463867)
Potoglou, D.et al. 2018. Factors associated with urban non-fatal road-accident severity. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion 25(3), pp. 303-310. (10.1080/17457300.2018.1431945)
Potoglou, D., Husein, R. and Maoh, H. 2018. Factors influencing jouney-to-work by public transit in mega Canadian cities. In: Briasoulis, H., Soulakellis, N. and Kavroudakis, D. eds. The practice of spatial analysis: Essays in memory of Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou.. Springer, pp. 167-186.

2014

Patil, S.et al. 2014. Surveillance and privacy related preferences of European metro travellers. Presented at: 42nd European Transport Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, 29 September – 1 October 2014.
Patil, S.et al. 2014. Public preferences for data privacy – A pan-European study on the metro/train surveillance. Presented at: Transportation Research Board (TRB) 94th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, 11-15 January 2014.
Potoglou, D.et al. 2014. Privacy, security and surveillance: New insights into preferences of European citizens. Presented at: 42nd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), Arlington, VA, USA, 12-14 September 2014.
Patil, S.et al. 2014. Trade-off across privacy, security and surveillance in the case of metro travel in Europe. Transportation Research Procedia 1(1), pp. 121-132. (10.1016/j.trpro.2014.07.013)

2013

Santos, G.et al. 2013. Factors influencing modal split of commuting journeys in medium-size European cities. Journal of Transport Geography 30, pp. 127-137. (10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.04.005)
Potoglou, D.et al. 2013. The value of personal information online: Results from three stated preference discrete choice experiments in the UK. Presented at: 21st European Conference for Information Systems, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 5-8 June 2013. , (10.13140/2.1.3066.7203)
Rohr, C.et al. 2013. Measuring consumer preferences for postal services. In: Krew, M. and Kleindorfer, P. R. eds. Reforming the postal sector in the face of electronic competition. Advances in Regulatory Economics series Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 241-260.
Mabit, S. L.et al. 2013. Valuation of travel time for international long-distance travel - results from the Fehmarn Belt stated choice experiment. Journal of Transport Geography 33, pp. 153-161. (10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.10.003)

2012

Daly, A.et al. 2012. Using ordered attitudinal indicators in a latent variable choice model: a study of the impact of security on rail travel behaviour. Transportation 39(2), pp. 267-297. (10.1007/s11116-011-9351-z)
Netten, A.et al. 2012. Outcomes of social care for adults: developing a preference-weighted measure. Health Technology Assessment 16(16) (10.3310/hta16160)
Potoglou, D., Kanaroglou, P. S. and Robinson, N. 2012. Evidence on the Comparison of Telephone and Internet Surveys for Respondent Recruitment. The Open Transportation Journal 6(1), pp. 11-22. (10.2174/1874447801206010011)

2011

Potoglou, D.et al. 2011. Best-worst scaling vs. discrete choice experiments: An empirical comparison using social care data. Social Science & Medicine 72(10), pp. 1717-1727. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.027)

2010

Potoglou, D.et al. 2010. Quantifying individuals' trade-offs between privacy, liberty and security: the case of rail travel in UK. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 44(3), pp. 169-181. (10.1016/j.tra.2009.12.006)
Robinson, N.et al. 2010. Security at what cost?. In: Moore, T. and Shenoi, S. eds. Critical Infrastructure Protection IV: Fourth Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, ICCIP 2010, Washington, DC, USA, March 15-17, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 342. Berlin: Springer, pp. 3-15., (10.1007/978-3-642-16806-2_1)

2009

Potoglou, D., Kim, C. . W. and Burge, P. 2009. Discrete choice modelling. In: Ling, T. and van Dijk, L. eds. Performance Audit Handbook: Routes to Effective Evaluation. Technical Report, Vol. 788-RE. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, pp. 34-41.

2008

Potoglou, D. and Kanaroglou, P. S. 2008. Disaggregate Demand Analyses for Conventional and Alternative Fueled Automobiles: A Review. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 2(4), pp. 234-259. (10.1080/15568310701230398)
Potoglou, D. 2008. Vehicle-type choice and neighbourhood characteristics: An empirical study of Hamilton, Canada. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 13(3), pp. 177-186. (10.1016/j.trd.2008.02.002)
Potoglou, D. and Kanaroglou, P. S. 2008. Modelling car ownership in urban areas: a case study of Hamilton, Canada. Journal of Transport Geography 16(1), pp. 42-54. (10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2007.01.006)
Potoglou, D. and Susilo, Y. O. 2008. Comparison of Vehicle-Ownership Models. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board(2076), pp. 97-105. (10.3141/2076-11)

2007

Potoglou, D. and Kanaroglou, P. S. 2007. Household demand and willingness to pay for clean vehicles. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 12(4), pp. 264-274. (10.1016/j.trd.2007.03.001)
Paez, A.et al. 2007. Elderly mobility: Demographic and spatial analysis of trip making in the Hamilton CMA, Canada. Urban Studies 44(1), pp. 123-146. (10.1080/00420980601023885)
Potoglou, D., Kanaroglou, P. S. and Benoit, C. 2007. An integrated modelling framework for vehicular carbon monoxide concentrations in urban areas. In: Balduino, S. P. ed. Progress in Air Pollution Research. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 185-200.
Potoglou, D. and Kanaroglou, P. S. 2007. An internet-based stated choices household survey for alternative fuelled vehicles. Canadian Journal of Transportation 1(1), pp. 36-55.

2005

Jerrett, M.et al. 2005. A review and evaluation of intraurban air pollution exposure models. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 15(2), pp. 185-204. (10.1038/sj.jea.7500388)
Potoglou, D. and Kanaroglou, P. S. 2005. Carbon monoxide emissions from passenger vehicles: predictive mapping with an application to Hamilton, Canada. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 10(2), pp. 97-109. (10.1016/j.trd.2004.11.003)
Potoglou, D. and Kanaroglou, P. S. 2005. Will alternative fuelled vehicles contribute to solving the sustainability problem? A framework for assessing future vehicle demand [Abstract]. Presented at: 9th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology - CEST2005, Rhodes Island, Greece, 1-3 September 2005Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology. pp. A1222-A1227.

2004

Potoglou, D., Kouzeli-Katsiri, A. and Haralambopoulos, D. 2004. Solar distillation of olive mill wastewater. Renewable Energy 29(4), pp. 569-579. (10.1016/j.renene.2003.09.002)

MSc Transport and Planning

Module leader for:

CPT896 - Transport Analysis
CPT876 - Researching Transport
CPT877 - Transport and the City

BSc Urban Planning and Development

Module leader for:

CP0338 - Sustainable Transport

Dimitris is a member of the Spatial Planning and Analysis in City Environments (SPACE) and the Festivals Research Groups.

Interests / Areas of Expertise

Travel behaviour
Car ownership, type choice and demand for cleaner cars
Privacy and security trade-offs
Design of discrete choice and best-worst scaling experiments to inform public policy and decision making
Quantitative methods

Projects

2017-2018: Cardiff University Research Leave Fellowship Scheme
Total: £15,000

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2013-2015: Understanding the relative valuations of research impact: Applying best-worst scaling experiments to survey the public & biomedical/health researchers
Funded by the Medical Research Council (Ref: MR/L010569/1).
Co-Investigator (PI: Prof. Jonathan Grant, King's College London).
Total: £154,934.75.

This study aims to address this gap by refining and adapting a survey-based approach known as Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) to analyse the relative valuations of research impact as perceived by the general population and researchers. This study will focus on biomedical and health research and will contribute to the MRC's objective to fund studies that 'Deliver user/beneficiary views on the contribution of academic research and MRC input to this'.

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2013 - 2015: Financing Local Public Transport using Land Value Capture Tax : The Case of Cardiff Bus.
Funded by British Academy/Leverlulme Small Research Grant (Ref: SG122122).
Principal Investigator, with Dr Yiming Wang.
Total: £6,947.
This project is a scoping study to examine a potential policy option of levying land value capture property tax to fund local public transport in the UK. Traditional charging scheme only recognises the internal use value of transport facility. What is overlooked is that the public transport system often promotes and, in economic terms, exerts positive externalities upon the market values of real estate properties which are adjacent to the transport network. Such added property values, if recovered through taxation, can be used to finance local public transport systems, which, given the current economic climate, are typically short of funding in the contemporary UK. The geographic focus of this study will be on the public bus system in the city of Cardiff, Wales.

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2012 - 2014: Public Perception of security and privacy: Assessing Knowledge, Collecting Evidence, Translating Research into Action.
Funded by Project PACT, FP7 and DG Enterprise, Grant Agreement No. 285635.
Principal Investigator, with Neil Robinson for RAND Europe
Total: €2.5M.
Security technologies and related measures are implemented to mitigate likely risks from terrorist attacks and other threats, but these technologies and measures may compete with privacy and civil liberties. RAND Europe is participating in PACT, a 3-year EU-funded research project to assess existing knowledge about the relation between security and privacy; collect empirical evidence through a pan-European survey; and analyse the main factors that affect how the public perceives the security and privacy implications of security technology. RAND Europe is leading the design and analysis of a large-scale survey that is aimed to collect responses from 27,000 participants across the EU27 member states using face-to-face interviews and internet surveys. The survey questionnaire involves asking participants' preferences in three real-life situations where different factors related to privacy and security may compete.

PhD Supervision

Damilola Akosile (2016 - present)
Dr Omar Alotaibi (2013 - 2017)

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