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UPM TRANSPORT RESEARCH GROUPS UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID SPAIN. THE UPM Internal Structure. THE UPM Some data. THE UPM Research & Development. UPM -TRANSPORT RESEARCH GROUPS Objectives. Encouraging UPM research in the field of transport
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UPMTRANSPORT RESEARCH GROUPSUNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICADE MADRIDSPAIN
UPM-TRANSPORT RESEARCH GROUPSObjectives • Encouraging UPM research in the field of transport • Increasing interaction among transport researchers in the UPM • Taking part in EU R&D projects • Promoting technology transference to the society in the field of transport
INSIAInstitute for Automobile Research Railway Technologies Research Centre UPM-ECTRIResearch Centres Involved
TRANSYTResearch Centre in Transport Economics and Planning Participants: Civil and Forestry Engineering
TRANSYTResearch areas • Transport economics and regulation • Interaction between transport planning and land uses • Transport infrastructure financing • Logistics and intermodality • Transport environmental impacts • Transport demand modelling
TRANSYTResearch projects • R&D Projects • Development of management and financial models to construct transport infrastructures • Analysis of land impacts produced by surface transport modes defined in the Spanish Infrastructure Plan Study of the Transport Sector in Spain • Modelling and evaluating measures to manage traffic demand in urban corridors
ETSIT Telecomunication Eng. Research Areas • Signal Processing & Communications • Telematics • Electronics
ETSI Telecomunications Research projects • R&D Projects • Advising to private companies in the design of EFC systems for automatic toll collection • Computer vision systems for video enforcement, symbols recognition and target tracking • Design of GSM-R systems for high-speed trains • Definition of certification procedures for ITS systems for the Public Works Ministry • …
Railway Technologies Research Centre The CITEFRailway Technology Research Centre
CITEF RailwayResearch Main work areas and applied projects in transport sector(National and European) • ENGINEERING • Technical assistance to Public Administration: GIF. • Cooperation with Engineering Companies: Getinsa, Auxitec, ... • PROTOTYPING & INNOVATION • Lab-Rail: new technologies applied to Railway • GSM-R advanced tools. • Infrared and ultrasound technologies. • SYSTEM DYNAMICS • Three-dimensional vehicle dynamics: Metro Madrid, .... • Rail – wheel interaction: MCYT • Switches: MCYT • Ergonomics: internal projects • SIMULATION & VIRTUAL REALITY • Training: RENFE, Metro Madrid, … • Design: infrastructures, signalling, ... • Test: ERTMS equipment. • TRAINING • Post-graduate specialisation courses.
CITEF RailwayEngineering • Work inside the Installations area of GIF. November 2002 - . • Specifications and Technical Prescriptions for: • CatenarySignallingFixed Communications network Electrical substationsGSM-R Communications network • Energetic dimensioning studies. • Initial Projects for railway installations. • ERTMS rules preparation. • Control of the security processes. • Coordination and Monitorization of the Works. • High Speed Lines: • Lérida-Barcelona-French Border Córdoba-Málaga • Madrid-Segovia-Valladolid Branch Line to Toledo
CITEF Simulation to training • Emulator / Simulator for Training in High Speed (SIFAV), RENFE. • High speed train driving emulation under ERTMS and virtual reality. • Driving and failures simulator for Metro Madrid. • EMT Busses Driving Simulator. • Electrical Cells, FENOSA.
INSIAResearch areas • Accident statistics, analysis and reconstructions. • Transport models applied to safety and environmental impact. • Biomechanics and crash test dummies. • Passive safety system development (design and testing). • Buses and heavy vehicles dynamic and structural studies. • Vehicle component design. • Vehicle adaptation to RMP, ambulances... • ITS and onboard systems technologies. • Passive and active noise control techniques for the noise produced in transport (road transport, trains and planes).
INSIATesting facilities • A component sled test facility. • Lateral stability bench for buses and trucks. • Rollover platform for R66 ECE tests. • Pendulum for impact tests. • Traction machine for R17 ECE tests. • Automobile and heavy vehicle tyre bench. • Power test bench. • Acoustics laboratory. • Electronic and ITS laboratory. • Vibration shakers. • Dynamic and fatigue tests benchs. In a 3000 m2 testing building + a 1500 m2 office building.