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    Modeling of taxi cab fleets in urban environment 

    Salanova Grau, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2013-12-19)

    Taxis are a necessary mean of transport in cities for meeting the mobility needs of its citizens. The impact of the taxi market in the daily life is quite important, concerning both financial (e.g. taxi drivers' salaries) ...

    Active traffic management in metropolitan freeways : modeling and assessing dynamic speed limit strategies 

    Torné Santos, Josep María (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)

    Traffic congestion is a major source of inefficiencies in metropolitan freeways (e.g. productivity loss, energy waste, pollutant emissions, among other externalities). Active traffic management (ATM) strategies are used ...

    Metodología para la estimación de la combinación de velocidades máximas que permiten alcanzar el tiempo de viaje comercialmente requerido en una infraestructura ferroviaria 

    González Franco, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2015-12-21)

    Over the past 30 years, high speed railway in Europe has experienced a great development due to, among other things, the reduction of travel times, the increase of frequency and the continuous improvement of service quality. ...

    Taming the road : a GIS-based visualisation and spatial analysis methodology towards retrofitting the intermediate urban mosaic 

    Mercadé Aloy, Josep (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)

    The contemporary networks of towns and cities continue to emancipate themselves by embracing ever larger territories while shaping their interstices in heterogeneous mosaics of settlements and open spaces of variable ...