Assessing and predicting the impact of road transport on safety and the environment. Developing and applying models. 

Scientific Accidents Investigation

Models Development 

 

Main Objetives and Activities

  • Definition of transport impact indicators, and development of methodologies for their estimation.
  • Application of advanced statistical modeling to the analysis and prediction of road accidents frequency, risk and severity. Evaluation of the influence of socioeconomic, technological and legislative variables.
  • Development of a DRAG-Spain model (Demand of Road Use, Accidents and their Gravity)
  • Development and application of methodologies for the estimation of energy consumption and pollutant emissions from road traffic.

 

R+D+i Team

Blanca Arenas Ramírez. Investigadora Reponsable
Profesora Titular de Universidad. Dra Ingenieria de Caminos, Canales y Puertos por UPM.
Directora de la Unidad de Estudios de Transporte e Impacto Ambiental de los Vehículos del Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil Francisco Aparicio Izquierdo de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (INSIA-UPM)

blanca.arenas@upm.es

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