The abertis foundation, Barcelona City Council and the Catalan Down’s Syndrome Foundation are promoting the Road Volunteer project as a pilot scheme in three schools in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district. Six young people with Down’s syndrome or a mental disability are observing the behaviour of pedestrians at school starting and leaving times. The initiative aims to improve road safety around schools, as well as integrating young people with Down’s syndrome into the employment world.

Since Thursday 29 September, Castellet Castle, headquarters of the abertis foundation, has housed an exhibition on the archaeological finds discovered following the recent remodelling of the AP-7 junctions in Vilafranca del Penedès. The roadworks revealed over two hundred structures dated between the Neolithic and first Iron Age (between 7500 and 2750 years ago) at three archaeological sites: Mas Pujó (South Vilafranca), La Serreta (Central Vilafranca) and Cinc Ponts (North Vilafranca).

The results of the 2011 review confirm that abertis, for the sixth year running, has retained its listing on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) World.

The experts who took part in today’s symposium on “Driving in your 70’s and 80’s. Why not?”, organised by the abertis foundation, argued for establishing mechanisms for coordination between the different Traffic and Health authorities at both regional and national level in the renewal of driving licences for people over 65 years old. 

The chairman of abertis, Salvador Alemany, the director of Televisió de Catalunya, Mònica Terribas, the sub-director general for Innovation, Training and Guidance of the Catalan government’s education department, Joan Gumbert, and the director of the Espai Terra  programme, Tomàs Molina, attended the presentation of the prizes in the Paisatge i Entorn (Landscape and Environment) awards, organised by the Televisió de Catalunya programme Espai Terra, the Catalan government’s education department and the abertis foundation. The aim of these awards is to raise awareness of the regions and landscape among upper-high school students. The event took place today at Castellet castle, in Castellet i la Gornal (Alt Penedès), headquarters of the abertis foundation.

The paper “Highway travel time estimation with data fusion” by Francesc Soriguera Martí is the winning piece of research in the Doctoral Thesis category of the 8th abertis Prize for research into transport infrastructure management, awarded every year by the UPC-abertis chair.