A thesis entitled Characterisation and modelling of operating speed on conventional roads using naturalistic observation of light vehicles by Dr Ana María Pérez Zuriaga has won the 10th abertis Prize for Research into Transport Infrastructure Management, awarded by the abertis chair-UPC. The award is given in recognition of  the best doctoral thesis by a student at a university in Spain.

In the category for best graduate dissertation, final degree projector master’s dissertation, the prize went to Héctor Fornés Martínez for a project entitled Analysis and optimization of the luggage check-in counter allocation process at airports.

In attendance at the prize-giving ceremony held today at the Civil Engineering School of Barcelona were the Minister of Planning and Sustainability of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Santi Vila, the President of abertis, Salvador Alemany, and the Rector of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC), Antoni Giró.

The ceremony is a prelude to the 2nd International Prize by the abertis chair to be awarded on 29 May in Paris. The winners of the international prize will be chosen from the winners announced today at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC) as well as the winners at the UPC’s French counterpart, the chaire abertis at the Paris Tech Civil Engineering School (ENPC) and IFSTTAR (the French Institute of Transport Science and Technology, Development and Networks). The winners will be chosen from the winners of the doctoral thesis category and the category for best graduate dissertation, final degree project or master’s dissertation.