International Abertis Award

On 18th October, the Spanish Embassy in Paris hosted the International Abertis Award for Research into Transportation Infrastructure Management and Road Safety.


Winners of each category from the different countries in which the International Network of Abertis Chairs is present, i.e. Brazil, Chile, Spain, France and Puerto Rico, take part in the international award. 

Taking part in the event was the Spanish ambassador in France, Fernando Cardedera; the director of the French subsidiary of Abertis (Sanef), Arnaud Quémard; the director of the Abertis Chair in France, Simon Cohen; the Research manager of the École de Ponts Paris Tech, Françoise Prêteux; and the Chief Corporate Reputation and Communications Officers at Abertis, Sergi Loughney. 

In terms of acknowledgements, the Doctoral Thesis modality was awarded to Dr Elena Mora (University of Cantabria) for her thesis “A Bayesian network approach for probabilistic safety analysis of traffic networks”, who had already won the 15th Abertis Spain Award.

The winner of the Master’s Thesis category was Bryan Ruíz (University of Puerto Rico) for the work titled “Use of driving simulator for the operational and safety evaluation of signage and pavement markings: a case study of PR-22 dynamic toll lane”.  

Insofar as Road Safety research, the acknowledgement went to Dr César de Santos (Polytechnic University of Madrid) for the doctoral thesis “A methodology for sight distance analysis on highways, alignment coordination, and their relation to traffic safety”. 

All the winning work of the International Abertis Award and of the different national awards can be seen on the website: www.catedrasabertis.com

The Abertis Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Plan establishes the involvement of the Group in the communities where it carries out its business.

The exhibition Miró: la experiencia de mirar” (Miró: the experience of looking)was held at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 25th November 2017 to 25th February 2018.

In the previous summary we indicated that the artist Joan Miró maintained a close link with the avant-garde scene in Paris from his youth until a ripe old age. The exhibition sponsored by Abertis at the Grand Palais enabled the Catalan painter to return to the French capital. 

In February 1917, Europe was immersed in the 1st World War. Pablo Picasso was 36 years old then, but was already a great artist who had started the Cubism revolution.

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