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UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA. GIST -

TRANSPORT SYSTEMS RESEARCH GROUP

ENTITY PROFILE
The Transport Systems Research Group (GIST) of University of Cantabria was created
in 2004 to specialise in research and development in the fi eld of transport engineering.
The group’s main work is based around transport networks, demand modelling, traffi c
engineering and railway systems engineering. The group actively collaborates with other
national and international universities and research centres in Madrid, Catalunya, Burgos,
Chile, USA, Italy and Holland (TU Delft). The group’s scientifi c contribution in the fi eld
of railways has been disseminated through various congresses and publications: CITF
(Zaragoza), CIT (Madrid), ICCSEEC (Greece), SRRE (TU Delft), IAVSD (Manchester) or
the journal of Accident Analysis and Prevention (article currently under review). UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTRES

AREAS OF ACTIVITY
• This R+D group introduces new ways of • User characterisation and demand
looking at the management, maintenance studies, traveller behaviour during
and exploitation of the railway sector. emergency situations, vehicle-track
interaction using multi-body simulation
(MBS) and FE, etc.

R&D: PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS
Project Product National International
Automatic safety decision making system for high speed passenger trains during
emergency situations. Spanish Ministry of Public Works. Ongoing.

ADDRESS CONTACT PERSON
Av. Los Castros s/n Luigi dell’Olio.
39005 Santander, Cantabria Lect. in Transp. & Infr. Engineering
Tel.: +34 942202294 Tel.: +34 942202294
http://grupos.unican.es/gist/grupo.html delloliol@unican.es