Abertis, with culture worldwide
23 September 2019
The Abertis Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Plan establishes the involvement of the Group in the communities where it carries out its business.
On the occasion of European Road Safety Week, Abertis Spain held the 15th Abertis Award for Research into Transportation Infrastructure Management and Road Safety in Spain.
The competition is open to all students from the country’s different universities and the award acknowledges the best research work on these subjects. Our Group has two chairs in Spain: the Abertis-UPC Chair, in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and the Abertis-UPM Chair with the Polytechnic University of Madrid, directed by professors Francesc Robusté and José Manuel Vassallo, respectively.
Insofar as Road Safety research, the winner was César de Santos Berbel from the UPM for his doctoral thesis “A methodology for sight distance analysis on highways, alignment coordination, and their relation to traffic safety”.
“A Bayesian network approach for probabilistic safety analysis of traffic networks”by Elena Mora Villazán (University of Cantabria) received the award in the doctoral thesis category.
In the Master’s thesis, the award went to Xavier Ros Roca (Polytechnic University of Catalonia) for the work titled “Analyzing SPSA approaches to solve the non-linear non-differentiable problems arising in the assisted calibration of traffic simulations models’.
This year, the high level of the researchers led the jury to present four second prizes: to Irene Martínez Josemaría (UPC) for the work titled” ‘Optimal location of variable speed limit application areas in freeways”; to Albert Gragera Lladó (University of Barcelona) for his thesis “The Economics of Parking: Essays on regulation, competition and information frictions”; to Paola Carolina Bueno Cadena (UPM) for her thesis titled “Assessing social and distributional impacts of transportation policies for optimizing sustainability”; and to Nerea Rambla Cerdà (University of Valencia) for her master’s thesis “Análisis de conflictos entre ciclistas y vehículos en glorietas de carreteras convencionales. Propuesta de mejoras y rediseño de glorieta en CV-500 entre PK 21+000 y 22+000”.
The award ceremony took place at the Polytechnic University of Madrid’s Higher Technical School of Civil Engineers. The event was attended by José Manuel Vassallo, director of the Abertis-UPM Chair; José Javier Izquierdo Roncero, secretary general for Infrastructures at the Ministry of Development; Francisco J. Martín Carrasco, director of the ETS; José Miguel Atienza Riera, vice rector of the UPM; and José Aljaro, CEO of Abertis. José Aljaro highlighted the fact that the Abertis Chairs are “an innovative formula for considering the collaboration between universities and business and, in turn, for promoting training and generating knowledge to make availability to society as a whole”.
23 September 2019
The Abertis Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Plan establishes the involvement of the Group in the communities where it carries out its business.
23 September 2019
The exhibition “Miró: la experiencia de mirar” (Miró: the experience of looking)was held at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 25th November 2017 to 25th February 2018.
23 September 2019
In the previous summary we indicated that the artist Joan Miró maintained a close link with the avant-garde scene in Paris from his youth until a ripe old age. The exhibition sponsored by Abertis at the Grand Palais enabled the Catalan painter to return to the French capital.
23 September 2019
In February 1917, Europe was immersed in the 1st World War. Pablo Picasso was 36 years old then, but was already a great artist who had started the Cubism revolution.
