(Ferrovial) Center for Intelligent Infrastructure Innovation

The aim is to integrate information technologies in municipal waste collection operations to mitigate the impact on the environment and improve service quality. The plan is to develop sensors that would be installed in selective waste collection containers (glass, paper, and plastic). These sensors would communicate with the central system which, in turn, would gather information to optimize the routes of waste collection trucks.

The Enhanced System for Automatic Detection of High-Occupancy Vehicles (DAVAO in its Spanish abbreviation) will make it possible to measure the number of occupants in vehicles as they pass free-flow under a gantry. This system addresses the need to monitor traffic in lanes reserved exclusively or as priority lanes for cars carrying more than two or three passengers. The shared used of vehicles increases the capacity of the infrastructure, contributing to making traffic more rational and less pollutant.

Application of technologies designed to monitor energy efficiency in buildings and facilities by, for example, developing programs that simulate the energy performance of buildings or new energy savings and efficiency techniques.

A software program for unifying Back Office systems for toll transactions (for highway concessions featuring conventional toll systems) providing Cintra concessionaries a common system to reduce maintenance and upgrading costs and to incorporate any type of progress achieved in toll systems (new payment methods, free-flow, etc.).

This system proposes an entry lane ticket tolling system that does not require a ticket to be issued at the entrance to determine the origin of transit.  SAVE replaces cardboard with a license plate reading system and OCR.  It will be tested first in a prototype channeled traffic lane and subsequently in free-flow lanes (without obstacles).

This project aims to improve current toll lanes by incorporating a hardware kit (certified by banking entities) that is able to read, in a secure fashion, EMV Standard chip cards, non-contact SIM (cell phone) cards with NFC communications protocol.

This project consists of a concept test for a collection system for tolls charged for the use of infrastructures (Road Pricing) by means of vehicle geopositioning systems (GPS) and their location in the so-called "toll dominions". The aim is to carry out service pilot projects in sections of existing highways to compare the satellite-based functioning with electromicrowave-based tolls and to test the feasibility of the operations model of this service.

Managed lane models enabling the dynamic transformation of certain highway lanes into toll lanes according to the level of road traffic, thereby contributing to resolving traffic congestion in urban centers.

This information system is used for calculating, in real time, the optimal routes for waste transportation according to the waste collection points (information that could come from the RINTER system) and the actual situation in road sections (traffic congestions, works) to optimize movements, save energy and reduce CO2 emissions without this having a negative impact on waste collection services.