{"id":24611,"date":"2026-01-08T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transyt.upm.es\/?page_id=24611"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:07:54","slug":"maria-castro-malpica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/transyt.upm.es\/en\/directory\/researchers\/maria-castro-malpica\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda Castro Malpica"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"24611\" class=\"elementor elementor-24611\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-77c9ad0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"77c9ad0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9042066\" 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.elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mar\u00eda Castro Malpica<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-794a9b5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"794a9b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7bd6e5e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7bd6e5e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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She is a Full Professor at the Department of Transportation Engineering, Territory and Urban Planning of this University. She runs the Master of Civil Engineering Systems. She has held several civil engineering positions in the private sector for eight years before joining academia. Her research focuses on Transportation Engineering and Infrastructure. She has conducted several studies about pavements and road geometric design. In her pavement research line, she has contributed to bridge pavement design and fatigue of bituminous mixtures. In her line of research on road geometric design, her work on vehicle speed models, road design consistency, and sight distance stands out. Recently, she has been working on traffic safety studies using a driving simulator. She is the author or co-author of numerous papers published at international conferences and journals.<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ORCID: <\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8941-5795\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8941-5795<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ResearchGate: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Maria-Castro?ev=hdr_xprf\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Maria-Castro?ev=hdr_xprf<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Scopus ID: 24342803800<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Google Scholar: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=RrMylY8AAAAJ&amp;hl=es\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=RrMylY8AAAAJ&amp;hl=es<\/a><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Researcher ID: B-2618-2010<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar\u00eda Castro Malpica Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid E.T.S.I. de Caminos, Canales y Puertos Dr. Mar\u00eda Castro Malpica Catedr\u00e1tica Dpto. de Ingenier\u00eda del Transporte, Territorio y Urbanismo 910674217 maria.castro@upm.es Mar\u00eda Castro Malpica holds a PhD and a Master in Civil Engineering from Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid. 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