UPM researchers collaborate in a project to implement the first autonomous bus in Malaga LINK TO THE NEWS Users approve autonomous buses for their safety and reduced emissions. The collaboration of TRANSyT-UPM in this task consists of analyzing the perception of potential users of the autonomous bus, to know the possible psychological barriers that negatively … Read more
TRANSyT participates with the University of Bío-Bío (Chile) in a Research Project on Covid-19 in the line of mobility and accessibility The project will develop a methodology with geospatial technological support, aimed at implementing sustainable criteria from a social perspective, with the aim of giving safe accessibility to goods and services of first necessity. The … Read more
News in the Argentine newspaper Clarín, after an interview with María Eugenia López Lambas, Deputy Director of Transyt Public transport adapts to the new circumstances: Disinfection, more frequency of trains and buses. “With covid, as with any highly contagious disease, the evil is not public transport but any agglomeration. From the marches of March 8 … Read more
Briefing note: Ford Fund Smart Mobility Challenge Awards Ceremony On June 17, the presentation and publication session of the winners in the Ford Fund Smart Mobility Challenge took place. Funded by the Ford Foundation and organized by TRANSyT-UPM, this competition sought to recognize and financially support the development of innovative projects that addressed in a … Read more
The deputy director of Transyt interviewed in the RTVE program 1 Seguridad Vital, offers her experience on pedestrian mobility and how to promote it in large cities. Full documentary In leisure trips and shopping we walk because our time is worth very little. But in occupational mobility (for work or studies) we go by car … Read more
The Mobility cluster of the Future (MoviTur), directed by Andrés Monzón (Professor of Transport at UPM), and to which the GIAU+S belongs, has its impetus in a workshop organized by the UPM in December 2019. The meeting that was held to support the relations between R&D&I structures of the UPM (with a consolidated trajectory, in … Read more
The Center for Innovation in Technology (itdUPM) and the Research Chair of Sustainable Mobility (CIMS-CRTM) will coordinate at the UPM the actions to be followed together with the City Council and the Community of Madrid, as well as with other public and private entities LINK TO THE NEWS The UPM contributes, through "The Day After", … Read more
Application submission period extended until May, 30, 2020 PhD Program: Civil Engineering Systems (UPM). This PhD position is part of the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) between the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Transport Research Centre (TRANSyT) and the European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC) DETAILS in PDF
30-04-2020 Our deputy director gives her opinion on the immediate challenges of urban transport: the role of public and private companies. LINK TO THE NEWS Small cities have easier mobility for their citizens who will always be able to walk or bike, but in places like Madrid and Barcelona it is not clear how the … Read more
The deputy director of Transyt gives her opinion on urban density and the new normal marked by social distancing. LINK TO THE NEWS Maintaining social distance, between one and a half meters and two meters on the street, is not equally easy in all cities, nor in all parts of a city. With the time … Read more
