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CENIT - CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN

TRANSPORT

ENTITY PROFILE
CENIT is a research centre created in 2001 as a consortium between the Generalitat
de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia) and the Technical University of
Catalonia (UPC). Its main aim is to generate knowledge on transportation and to transfer
it to society by means of research, training and technology transfer, and to assess in
planning and transport design and subjects related to mobility. CENIT was the fi rst
research center on transportation to be created in Spain.
CENIT is member of several international and national expert groups, such as the
European Network of Excellence (NoE) EURNEX, and of CoEFUT (Center of Excellence
of Future Transportation) and is an active member of the Spanish Railway Technological
Platform (PTFE), Railgrup, CNC-Logistics, etc. UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTRES

AREAS OF ACTIVITY
• Operational analysis, pricing, investment • Railways, highways, ports, airports,
analysis, behaviour of demand, network transport economy, transport modeling,
design and optimization of routes, location public transport.
and layout, etc.

R&D: PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS
Project Product National International
ME3SAVE. Specifi c methodology for the economic and social assessment of
high speed lines.
RAILBOOK. Integrated Handbook for railway stations design and evaluation.
Ongoing.
RAILCALC. Calculation of charges for the use of rail infrastructure.

TARIFO. Methodologies for the setting of track access charges in line with
transport policy objectives.
RAILEX. Development of methodologies to set charges for use of rail infrastructure
that consider the internalisation of rail transport external costs. Ongoing.
New operation model for FGC’s lines of Vallès and Llobregat-Anoia. Ongoing.

Canon UIC. Study on infrastructure charges of high speed services in
Europe.
New Technologies for designing very high speed lines (300/350 km/h): Use of
Bituminous Subballast for the reduction of maintenance costs.
REPLICA. Spanish Network of Intermodal logistics platforms to improve
freight transport competitiveness and enviromental sustainability.

ADDRESS CONTACT PERSON
C/ Jordi Girona, 29 - 2A (Edifi cio Nexus II) Marta Sánchez Borràs
08034 Barcelona Head of the Railways Transport Division
Tel.: +34 934137667 Tel.: +34 934137667
www.cenit.es marta.sanchez-borras@upc.edu