ECTRI Members gathered in Bilbao on November 27-28 for the ECTRI Autumn Assemly of Members, kindly hosted by Deusto/DeustoTech.
The first day of meeting started with R. Cortazar Goicoechea, Vice-Dean of the host organisation which presented the Deusto University and in more detail the Faculty of Engineering, composition, programmes, facilities and ongoing research.
The meeting continued with the follow up of ECTRI’s Implementation and Action Plan and the management of the association, with special presentations of E. Bekiaris, on SKILLFUL project “Future Requirements & Training Challenges in Transport Research“ and the ETRR Journal Editorial progress report by K. Geurs, ETRR Editor in Chief.
To close the day, Prof. Gunnar Prause from Tallinn University of Technology was invited to present Transport research in Estonia: governance, key topics and projects.
The second day was dedicated to the workshop organised by the host on ITS, with the following speakers and presentations:
- TIMON project- towards road safety. Traffic congestion prediction systems and multimodal route planning systems by Dr Antonio Masegosa, University of Deusto – DeustoTech – Mobility
- PostLowcit project – Urban logistics: automatization challenges – Stakeholder view: operational challenges by Mr Santiago Muñoz, Correos (National postal operator)
- PostLowcit project – Urban logistics: automatization challenges – Technological challenges by Dr Ignacio Angulo, University of Deusto
Photo gallery of the meeting is available in the Flickr album.