Maria Konstantinidou graduated from the department of Urban Planning and Regional Development of University of Thessaly in 2010. In 2011, she obtained the MSc degree in Urban planning and Transports from the University Paris-Est Marne-la- Vallée in Paris and in 2015 the MSc degree in Environmental planning from the Hellenic Open University. In 2019 she graduated from the Hellenic Open University from an MBA program. Since 2018 she is a research associate of the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). Her research interests include business/exploitation issues as well as dissemination activities and users’ engagement strategy issues.