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UPC-abertis chair in the Management of Transport Infrastructures

The UPC-abertis chair in the Management of Transport Infrastructures, created by abertis in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, develops applied research work and gives specialised courses and seminars aimed at professionals in the sector.

The director of the chair, Francesc Robusté, is a doctor in Civil Engineering from the UPC, professor in Transport at the same university and director of the Transport Innovation Centre (CENIT), also at the UPC. He is president of the Spanish Forum on Transport Engineering (FIT) and author of more than 250 scientific publications on Transport Engineering.

With regard to fostering research, the UPC-abertis chair calls for entries every year for the abertis Award in the Management of Transport Infrastructures, open to students from all Spanish universities. The prize consists of a fund of 4,000 euros and the publication of the winning project.

Call for the 6th abertis award (new window)

UPC-abertis chair Site (new window)

The director of the chair Francesc Robusté

Work that has earned the abertis Award

Edition 2006:
- Winner:
  Modelling and optimal regulation of container port terminal concessions, by Sergi Saurí Marchán.
- Special mention:
  Contractual guarantees for quality in the construction and concession-based management of private-initiative transport infrastructures, by Anabelén Casares Marcos.
Edition 2005:
- Winner:
  Modelos de elección discreta en transportes con coeficientes aleatorios (Random Coefficient Discrete Choice Models in Transport), by Alfonso Orro Arcay.
- Special commendations:
  Detección automática de incidentes en vías rápidas. Implantación en la Ronda de Dalt de Barcelona (Automatic Incident Detection on Fast Routes: Implementation on Barcelona’s Ronda de Dalt), by Roger Garcia Ribó.
  Gestión de equipajes: descentralización, autoidentificación y autoclasificación. Aplicación en la Part Vella de la Terminal B del aeropuerto de Barcelona (Baggage Management: Decentralisation, Self-Identification and Self-Sorting. Application in the Old Part of Barcelona Airport’s Terminal B), by Pere Llorens Ardèbol.
Edition 2004:
- Winner:
  Modelling the operations and the behaviour of users of underground car parks, by Félix Andrés Caicedo Murillo
- Special mention:
  The provision, funding and functioning of transport infrastructures and their effects on the economic development, by Samuel López Carpintero.
Edition 2003:
- Winner:
  Methodology for the creation of a guarantee fund for infrastructures and evaluation of their efficiency in their application to concessions of transport infrastructures, by David Maté Sanz.

Salvador Alemany, managing director of abertis, and Francesc Robusté, director of the abertis chair, with the winners of the 2nd abertis award.

Josep Martínez-Vila, director general of corporate management at Abertis, and Francesc Robusté, director of the Abertis chair, with the 3rd Abertis award winners.

Sergi Saurí, winner of the 4th abertis Award, with Manel Nadal, secretary for Mobility of the Generalitat of Catalonia

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UPC-abertis chair in the Management of Transport Infrastructures

Work that has earned the abertis Award

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