Interview – CARNET

2021-05-19

“We should not forget the lesson that this pandemic is teaching us: to reduce the use of private vehicles”

Elisa Sayrol, Ph.D. holder in Telecommunications Engineering, is a researcher specializing in image and video processing. She is an associate professor at the UPC Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB), where she was the director for six years. Currently, she coordinates the master’s degree in Urban Mobility. Since 2017, she has formed part of the academic management of CARNET, the mobility hub promoted by the UPC, SEAT, and Volkswagen. She arrived at CARNET in 2017 thanks to...

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2021-03-16

Highlights, Interview

“We must make a commitment to develop a more hybrid city, which does not include exclusively residential areas”

Estanislau Roca’s passion in considered to be Barcelona’s urban planning, to which he has dedicated much of his professional life: he has been during various decades a lecturer at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC), where he al was the vice-dean for Infrastructure and Architecture. Moreover, he has had a productive research career that led to his activity in CARNET. He considers that the city has evolved considerably since Cerda’s Plan (1859), followed by the...