Comissió Tècnica de la Demarcació de Catalunya del Col.legi d'Enginyeria de Camins, Canals i Ports

Professor of Transportation at BarcelonaTech, Civil Engineering School, since 2002. I have been Director of the Civil Engineering School at Barcelona from 2004 to 2007 and before I was Academic Secretary from 1997 to 2004. I have been also Director of CENIT (Center for Innovation in Transport) since 1006 to 2013.During all these years my research areas and interests have been changing, but I remain faithful to Scientific Method and the service perspective of mobility that includes operations, stakeholder behavior and economics. My initial interests were logistics (vehicle routing models and software based on metaheuristics and logistics platforms and centers) and airports (capacity, process management, baggage handling, landside access). Then I started working on bus network design and management, research line that I still keep active with Dr. Miquel Estrada. In 1995 I started working on pricing designing the transit fare integration system of Barcelona (implemented in 2001) and in 1999 I started working on toll highways and road pricing as well as traffic analysis and travel time forecasting, research line that I keep active. Since 2008 I have been involved in urban mobility, the future of urban transportation and what I call "Mobility 4.0" in analogy to "Industrial Revolution 4.0" that is ready to come.I have also been involved in professional projects dealing with transportation planning, mobility management and pricing including TDM (transportation demand management) and TOD (Transit oriented development) , transportation project feasibility analysis / appraisal, and some modal incursions into port / harbor / harbour operations, container terminal layout and optimization and even city planning / accessibility analysis, etc.

BIT (Barcelona Innovative Transportation) is the research group devoted to optimize transportation, mobility and logistics at BarcelonaTech. We have been recognized by the Catalan Government as a "consolidated research group" in Catalonia. We are five full-time professors and several PhD and Masters students. Our research lines and interests range from traffic data analysis and travel time estimation, cooperative and autonomous vehicles, ridesharing and shared systems (bicycles, motorcycles and cars), buses network design / layout and management, city logistics, port operations and risk analysis, road pricing, airport processes and urban mobility.My interest in future urban mobility started when the European Parliament chose 6 Professors in Europe to think about the future of transportation in Europe in 2050 and I was assigned the topic of "Future Urban Transport", back in 2009. I wrote my reflections and presented them in the European Parliament and have given a number of classes and seminars on the topic, some of them addressed to BEST, Board of European Students on Technology. This topis includes Mobility as a Service, electric mobility, Autonomous Vehicles, Apps for taxis and MaaS, big data, IoT, etc. I have experience with on-demand bus services, park and rides, high occupancy vehicle lanes, traffic ramp metering and gate metering for traffic lights, transit network design and management, transit signal priority, ridesharing, MaaS, etc. (besides more traditional urban mobility tools such as pedestrian and bicycle, personal mobility devices, traffic, transit, and urban freight distribution).

Profesor e investigador en Transporte en Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Abertis endowed Chair deals with transportation infrastructure management. Abertis is the largest private infrastructure operator in the world, with headquarters in Barcelona. After several years serving as technical adviser to the Government of Catalonia about toll motorways (1999-2003), Abertis created and endowed Chair at BarcelonaTech. Besides awarding a Research Prize on Transportation Modeling to Masters and PhD theses, my research has been dealing with road pricing and toll highways, impact of eurovignette, feasibility of congesting pricing and charging schemes for Barcelona, impact of megatrucks, role of speed in society, parking facilities layout and management, logistics platforms feasibility analysis and functional design, etc.

El Centre d'Innovació del Transport (CENIT), era un consorci entre la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC- Barcelona Tech), i els departaments de Territori i Sostenibilitat (DTES) i d'Economia i Coneixement (DECO) de la Generalitat de Catalunya. La Generalitat de Catalunya va decidir tancar-ho el 2012 i ha acabat absorbit dins el CIMNE, Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria.

I had the honor of becoming the President of all Transportation Engineering Professors in Spain during 9 years, following the historic "father" of Transportation discipline Prof. Rafael Izquierdo (requiescat in pace).

Vam fundar ALG S.A. un grup d'amics el desembre de 1988 i vam començar a operar amb Josep Manel Almoguera, Jordi Singla i la Bet Sala el maig del 1989 al pis d'Angel Díaz del carrer Osi 29. Al cap d'un anys se'ns va fer petit el pis i ens vam traslladar a Av. Diagonal 529 compartint les oficines d'ALG amb l'IIF que després es va dir AMS Group.... Allà es va incorporar Iván Sarmiento (el meu primer alumne de doctorat que llegí la tesi el 1994 sobre congestió del trànsit urbà) i Helena Aparicio (EPD) entre d'altres. Al 1994 vam anar al carrer Urgell 240... Allà es van incorporar José Enrique Pérez (el meu segon alumne de doctorat que llegí la tesi el 1997 sobre optimizació de la ma d'obra portuària) i Joan Rojas que va deixar The Mac Group per a impulsar el projecte ALG després de consolidar-se.... Vaig deixar ALG l'any 1996 per a dedicar-me en exclusiva a la Universitat, a la docència i a la recerca que és el que m'agrada....