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With nine research clusters, three innovation units, and a global network with deep local roots, the CIMNE community is driving constant progress. Stay updated on scientific breakthroughs, international projects, and corporate developments shaping the future of engineering.
With nine research clusters, three innovation units, and a global network with deep local roots, the CIMNE community is driving constant progress. Stay updated on scientific breakthroughs, international projects, and corporate developments shaping the future of engineering.
MindOpera is a comprehensive facilities information management system that enables public administrations, hospitals, universities and building managers to unify, analyse and optimise all energy and maintenance data in a single environment. This innovative tool,...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and Singular Aircraft have signed a letter of intent framing strategic collaboration in research, development and innovation in the aeronautical field. The document, signed on Tuesday, aims to...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has successfully renewed its quality certification to provide engineering services for structural calculations to the nuclear power plants operated by the Ascó-Vandellós Nuclear Association (ANAV),...
Dr. Sergi Saurí, director of CENIT —the transport innovation unit at CIMNE— stressed today that “meeting the planned investment schedule” and ensuring a strong “maintenance commitment”, both tied to sound governance, are key to improving Rodalies de Catalunya, the...
On 10 December, Barcelona hosted the official presentation of a study on port governance that promises to become a reference for maritime policy in the Mediterranean region. Dr. Sergi Saurí, director of CENIT, the Innovation Unit in Transport at CIMNE, presented the...
As of today, Sant Cugat will host modular goods transfer zones in Plaça Joan Borràs and on Rambla del Torrent d'en Xandri. They have also been installed in other Catalan cities including Granollers, Sabadell and Mataró. These “nanotransfer hubs”, a pioneer in Europe,...
Genís Majoral, researcher in our Innovation Unit in Transport (CENIT), successfully defended his doctoral thesis on December 1 at UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech). “Designing Robust Transport Policy Mechanisms for Multiple Economic and...
Researchers at CENIT, the Innovation Unit in Transport of CIMNE, along with project partner HINICIO, have contributed to a World Bank report that identifies Colombia’s potential to become a major supplier of green hydrogen–based fuels for shipping and other...
Barcelona’s shared bike network Bicing has helped encourage active mobility among citizens A new publication from CENIT — Innovation Unit in Transport at CIMNE and the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) in Singapore shows how a cross-domain approach to...
CIMNE and the Catalan company Pro-activa, with the support and encouragement of the Catalan Business Competitiveness Agency (ACCIÓ), have teamed up to create an Artificial Vision technology aimed at helping to prevent drownings at beaches. The system...
Researchers at CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, have begun working on a significant new project that aims to provide insights into one of the most pressing developments in European shipping: the extension of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)...
Jakarta took a step closer in its journey toward a more sustainable, breathable future in April, as Sergi Sauri and Tomas Henriquez from CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport (CENIT) led a validation workshop focused on shaping the city's future Integrated Low...
CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, joined European partners in Paris in June for the closing meeting of RAIL4CITIES, an international project under the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, hosted at the headquarters of the UIC – International Union of...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has presented a pioneering Climate Vulnerability Map for Barcelona, marking a significant advancement in urban climate resilience strategies. The tool, developed as part of the "Climate Ready...
Public transport in Catalonia has been benefiting from temporary fare subsidies, which are only guaranteed until 30 June, 2025. Once they expire, it is not clear who should bear the cost of public transport, a share split between end users ─through ticket fares─ and...
Known for its beautiful landscape and vibrant culture, Bali is facing a growing challenge from traffic congestion and pollution. As tourism and population growth continue to rise, carbon emissions from traditional fuel-powered vehicles threaten environmental...
By Clara Soler i Bañuelos In the coming years, public transport authorities will face unprecedented financing challenges amidst radical transformations in urban mobility. CIMNE's Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, operates at the critical intersection of...
A novel study by researchers at CIMNE and the Port of Barcelona has developed an innovative framework to accurately quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from road transport activities within seaports. The research, which combines advanced data collection methods...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has unveiled a cutting-edge machine learning model designed to predict high-resolution electricity demand in Catalonia, addressing the challenges posed by climate change and increasing...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, led by Xavier Martínez Garcia, a professor at the Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona (FNB) at the UPC and researcher at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), has been awarded the prestigious JEC...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, coordinated by the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), has been named a finalist in the prestigious JEC Composites Innovation Awards 2025, under the category of Maritime Transportation & Shipbuilding. These...
Dealing with sustainable mobility challenges is no easy task: from technological barriers to physical and infrastructure constraints, the evolution of urban transport is as complex as it is inevitable. The Turkish capital city of Ankara decided to address this...
CIMNE researchers last week presented two use cases for monitoring air quality in Barcelona and predict energy consumption in extreme climate events in Catalonia, both implemented on the “Data Lake” of Destination Earth, an ambitious European endeavour to...
Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Around 3,000 maritime incidents occur every year in the European maritime fleet. 28% of these accidents are categorised as severe or very severe accidents. CIMNE is working with twelve other European partners to...
Schools play a central role in urban spaces, often serving as a second home for children. But modern cities can struggle with heavy traffic and congestion, particularly around school zones. Heavy traffic not only puts children at risk but also contributes to air and...
CIMNE’s innovation unit in transport, CENIT, is one of the more than 40 cross-cutting partners involved in the PIONEERS project, an ambitious European initiative led by the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, that addresses the challenges that maritime terminals in the...
English CIMNE presents an opportunity to license its CoolSteam technology for seawater desalination using an innovative vacuum evaporation-condensation method. This method significantly reduces the use of electrical energy compared to current technologies. Interested...
El Centro Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (CIMNE) es uno de los seis socios del proyecto transfronterizo europeo EKATE+, una iniciativa que usará tecnologías basadas en inteligencia artificial (IA), gemelos digitales...
Dr. Pere-Andreu Ubach, from the Civil and Environmental Engineering research group at CIMNE, this week defended the need to validate the effectiveness of inflatable breakwaters to minimize coastline erosion and promote the recovery of seagrass meadows. Speaking for...
Our Last Mile Distribution course, organised in collaboration with EIT Urban Mobility, has been a huge success.⦁ Sergi Sauri, Director of CENIT, kicked off the first session with an overview of the pressing issues surrounding last-mile distribution in cities.⦁ In week...
This year’s Smart City Expo 2023 held at the Fira Barcelona was a chance for the CENIT team to connect with brilliant minds across the field of Smart Cities and sustainable mobility.Our stand was a hive of activity with visitors from around the world including...
CIMNE spin-off Inergy, a provider of advanced energy consultancy services and tools, has won the tender to provide the island of Menorca (Spain) with an advanced energy management system to optimise and reduce energy consumption on the island, a UNESCO Biosphere...
SimTwins, a collaborative initiative developed by CIMNE to improve the future of industries through digital twins, has won the first prize in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Innovation Journey award. The prize, presented yesterday to Sebastian Ares,...
Researchers from the EU-funded Building Information, aGGregation, harmonisation, and analytics project (BIGG), in which CIMNE is a partner, have published a series of business cases demonstrating the practical application of big data and data analytic techniques to...
The European Public Local Authorities‘ Network for driving the Energy Transition (ePLANET) project has revealed budget constraints and lack of financial and technical expertise as the main obstacles local authorities in Europe face in designing their energy...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) will participate in the Smart City Expo Congress 2023, which will take place from 7 to 9 November at the Fira de Barcelona. At the event, CENIT Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport will...
In mid-September, CIMNE researcher Pere Andreu Ubach took part in a conference on sand management for beach sustainability, organised by Sitges Town Council . The aim of the meeting was to find the best solutions and actions to conserve and restore...
WE’RE HIRING! CENIT is looking for a Transport Researcher to join our team of diverse and experienced multilingual researchers. Location: UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Working Hours: Full-time (40 hours/week) Responsibilities: ⦁ Work on innovative transport and...
CENIT’S ANDRÉS REYES DÍAZ WINS THE ABERTIS PRIZE FOR BEST MASTER’S DISSERTATION IN SPAIN The Abertis Spain Chair, associated with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, awarded its 20th Abertis Awards for research into Sustainable Mobility to the best Master's and...
UNLOCKING SUSTAINABLE FUNDING: CIMNE'S COLLABORATION WITH ATM FOR FUTURE PUBLIC TRANSPORT MODELS In order to define a sustainable, permanent, sufficient, and stable funding model for public transport until the year 2040, the ATM (Autoritat del Transport Metropolità)...
CENIT'S LATEST STUDY REVEALS THE IMPACT OF THE EU ETS ON MARITIME TRANSPORT CENIT has conducted a comprehensive analysis of the EU ETS extension. The resulting study shows how the EU ETS would impact on the European maritime system negatively. The main reason is that...
A STEP FORWARD FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY IN COSTA RICA CENIT visited San José in Costa Rica last month to deliver the key outcomes from our consultancy focused on the electrification of Costa Rica's San José Metropolitan Area (SJMA) public transport. Costa Rica has set...
The researcher from the CENIT Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport at CIMNE, Samra Sarwar, has published the article "Analysis of superblocks during the transition phase from traditional vehicles to a fully automated vehicle environment: A case study of...
LAIF is a predictive aquatic surveillance system that works using computer vision technology. It analyses different patterns of behaviour of people in an aquatic environment and should be able to detect behaviour compatible with drowning. Once detected, it will...
Fibregy, a pioneering European research project dedicated to revolutionizing offshore energy platforms through the utilization of Fibre-Reinforced Plastics (FRP), recently hosted another highly successful open-door industrial day. This event took place in La Ciotat...
By mid-July, the research consortium of the EU-funded project EN-TRACK announced the first public release of the energy efficiency platform. After two years of collaboration with partners and data collection from pilots in Spain and Bulgaria, EN-TRACK is now seeking...
From smart cities to the future of ports, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and CENIT are introducing three innovative micro-credentials on the digitalization of mobility. These flexible short courses are designed to help professionals acquire and improve...
Last month the Turkish delegation comprised of EGO Executives, EGO staff and our project partner DAI Global Belgium SRL paid a study visit to Spain within the frame of “Smart Ankara Sustainable Urban Mobility Project (SUMP project)” which is financed by the European...
This January 2023, Genís Majoral and Sergi Saurí presented at the 102nd TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, a research entitled “Lessons from Reality on Automated Container Terminals: What Can Be Expected from Future Technological Developments.” The paper will be...
Figure: phases of the deployment of the recharging points infrastructure One of the main challenges currently facied by the road freight sector is the reduction of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions, while one of the strategies to address it comes from technological...
Participants in the Last Mile Distribution training Last February, CENIT organised, jointly with EIT UM, a training course on last mile distribution, sponsored by the Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) of Barcelona. The course provided an overview of last mile...
Figure 1: current functioning model of stations (the most common in European stations) Figure 2: SCP model CENIT is part of the consortium working on the HORIZON project RAIL4CITIES - Railway stations for green and socially-inclusive cities. Stations hold a unique...
The CIMNE researcher Pere-Andreu Ubach participated on 22th December, 2022, at the podcast titled "Arran del mar" (At sea level) by Canal Blau TV (Xarxa de Comunicació Local). During his intervention, he was interviewed about engineering solutions to avoid the...
In November, Cenit was delighted to continue our collaboration with the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) by welcoming the Singapore delegation here to Barcelona. We enjoyed an action-packed week which included a visit to see Barcelona’s famous superblocks and a ride...
In October, CENIT-CIMNE was in charge of the organisation of the 2nd Conference on Fire Safety at Sea #CFIS2022 held at the European Maritime Safety Agency premises in Lisbon, Portugal. It was a successful, enjoyable conference which counted on over 150 attendees in a...
In November, Cenit were delighted to have their first stand at the Smart City Expo World Congress. We had unparalleled opportunities for networking and promoting our research and lots of fascinating visits and meetings at our stand. We are working through and...
El CENIT y el EIT de Urban Mobility organizan un curso sobre Distribución de Última Milla. Durante cuatro sesiones se expondrán los principales problemas de la logística urbana, especialmente el reparto de la última milla, posibles soluciones y el modo más adecuado de...
Barcelona City Council and CENIT-CIMNE are working on the Kids First (K1) Project, which is co-funded by EIT Urban Mobility. Check out the ongoing work in Barcelona for making the city sustainable for kids. Barcelona City Council is currently undergoing the execution...
The group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE, CENIT, takes part in the EU-funded project K1 (Kids First). Within the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) programme, the K1 (Kids First) address the task of rethink one of the most crucial...
A new CIMNE desalination pilot plant arrives at the MtePack warehouse, where the electrical connection of its equipment will be made. The entire installation has been assembled by AMB ELECTRONICA. Process design, core distillation columns construction and automation...
Inergy is a CIMNE spin-off focused on digitization in the field of energy management. The company has celebrated its 10th anniversary these days with a party that has served as the setting for the recording of a commemorative video. The event was attended by, among...
Last friday 25th November, 2022, CIMNE participated in the TECNOEXPO Viladecans. The centre was present at different demonstration and innovation project presentation spaces. This event was mainly addressed to municipalities, companies of the territory and its...
OCEAN is the acronym of Operator-Centered Enhancement of Awareness in Navigation, an European-funded project coordinated by HVL, the Western Norwegian University of Applied Sciences. It has just started at the beginning of this month and CIMNE researcher Francisco...
09/09/22 Researcher: Samra Sarwar Location: European Transport Conference (ETC) Milan, Italy Title: Optimal Dynamic Tolls for Commuting During Transition Phase from Manual Car to Fully Autonomous Vehicle Environment. 15/09/22 Researcher: Francisco Rodero Location:...
European multidisciplinary consortium receives EU funding to increase navigational safety The OCEAN project is focused on enhancing operator awareness in navigation, to reduce the frequency of severe accidents like collision and grounding, to mitigate...
Ongoing research at CENIT is heading toward analyzing future cities incorporating tactical urbanism with a superblock model approach. The elevated dependency on cars for mobility, consequent environmental pollution due to emissions and reduction of public spaces are...
The capacity of the container ship fleet is growing for the first time in many years. What do these new vessels look like? Will they continue to break capacity records? Are they more sustainable? We look at trends based on new vessel orders by the major shipping...
CIMNE has just launched the Virtual Lab program which simulates an universal press in a very friendly and intuitive graphical environment based on GiD and in which the user can perform destructive compression, traction, shear and bending tests with normalized or...
GID Simulation, the pre and post processing software for numerical simulation, has recently published in its social networks a new video about a concrete dam fracture simulation. The video shows the deformation of the dam using contour lines. Watch more simulation...
National Geographic Spain has published an interesting article about how to produce graphene from recycled plastic. According the article, plastic waste from cars could have a second useful life in the form of graphene thanks to the development of a new recycling...
On 7th September, 2022, CIMNE-Beegroup will be partipating at the "Learnings from across the EU: Smart Meter Rollup", a workshop which aims to promote and disseminate learnings about the pros and cons of various approaches to rolling out smart meters across the EU,...
On 10th June, 2022, was taken place a Lab Meeting of the project PECT InnoDelta. It is a territorial specialization and competitiveness project financed by the Government of Catalonia and the European Commission through FEDER funds. Its mission is to create a...
Abstract The revolution towards the port of the future is going to change the long-term Port Business Ecosystem (PBE). The objective of this paper is to analyse how current trends might have implications for the future PBE. For this purpose, the research uses the...
The Hubs for Last Mile Delivery Solutions activity aim to alleviate local environmental and traffic problems in urban areas through the creation of shared urban consolidation and distribution centres (UCDC), on the borders of the LEZ implemented in AMB. During the...
In April, Cenit signed a research collaboration agreement with the Center for Liveable Cities of Singapore and Casa Asia. It provides a great opportunity to share experiences between Barcelona and Singapore in the field of mobility. TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY...
Check out the infographic on Africa Marrero to celebrate the International Women in Maritime Day. Africa infografic Word for newsletter.docx Africa Marrero Ports and Maritime Researcher at Cenit
Authorities visit to the pilot plant On 6th March, 2022, the president of Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez, has visited the Canary Ocean Platform (PLOCAN) located at Telde (Gran Canaria). Among other projects, he has visited the...
A new course on Demand Modeling Traditional transport demand models; 4 stage models, have evolved from trip-based to tour-based to activity-based models. Activity-based models assume that a person’s need to travel is based on what activities they are involved in. The...
According to the Institute for Mobility Research in Berlin (IFMO), 18- to 30-year-olds have no interest in owning a car, due to a greater regard for the environment as well as a shift in needs and priorities. Public transport, carsharing services and UBER are the...
Do you ever wonder how your smartwatch or smartphone can differentiate between walking and jogging while tracking your exercise routine? This aspect is known as Human Activity Recognition (HAR) and is based on the analysis of various sensors’ data including GPS,...
Cool Steam is is a desalination technology developed by the ICT-Natura department of CIMNE together with Fresh Water Nature spin-off. It is being tested on pilot scale at different field sites in order to evaluate its viability to produce affordable...
CIMNE wants to guarantee full gender equality opportunities and ensure that any person in the centre is valued based on their profile and professional performance without distinction of gender, age, race, belief or personal or circumstantial variables. To ensure that,...
Benedetto Grillone, member of the Building, Energy and Environment Group (BEEgroup) of CIMNE has participated on 17 February in the "Transfiere" Forum held in Málaga (Spain). The event, which arrives to its eleventh edition, is an European Meeting on Science,...
Air pollution has been described as the ‘new tobacco’ by the head of the World Health Organization. In fact over 90% of the world’s population suffers toxic air and research is increasingly revealing the profound impacts on the health of people, especially children....
Crowd management has taken on a renewed importance in our cities following the outbreak of Covid-19 in autumn 2019. Along with important economic and social changes we have also seen our mobility and safety in urban spaces compromised. City Councils are required to...
In 1966, the first container liner service from the US to the Dutch city of Rotterdam started and with it we witnessed the birth of international container shipping. The ensuing success of containerization not only changed the face of shipping, but also...
In its approach to became an smart city, Sant Vicenç dels Horts City Council has signed a framework agreement with CIMNE. The research and development centre in computational engineering has been the technological partner chosen by this municipality to carry...
Tras congregar a más de 5000 directivos y profesionales del sector en su versión online en 2020, el Congreso de Innovación Logística se ha consolidado como el punto de encuentro de conocimiento y foro de networking de referencia en España y Latinoamérica. En 2021, y...
On January 25, 2019, a mining waste dam of the company Vale SA suddenly collapsed, generating a tsunami of millions of cubic meters of water and toxic mud over the region. It is the biggest environmental disaster in the history of Brazil and 270 people lost their...
The consultancy financed by the Inter-American Development Bank for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago has been successfully delivered by CENIT and fellow research partners; CPCS Canada and Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland.With...
The Port of Barcelona signs agreement with CENIT and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) to finance 3 PhD positions.The agreement is signed as the Port of Barcelona looks to continue to develop research themes that are critical to the definition of the Port´s...
CENIT joins an international consortium of 46 partners led by the Port of Antwerp to form a leading voice on the Greening of European Ports. The PIONEERS consortium has been awarded a 25 million euro grant from the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme. CENIT...
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Dr. Aleix Pons has successfully defended his thesis on Second-best pricing schemes for Transport InfrastructureDr. Pons worked on the CENIT transport economics and policy research team from 2014 to 2018 before moving to London to continue his career. During his time...
Diagram of hydrogen distribution stations for use in mobility: hydrogen and hydrolines. Source: www.energetica21.comCENIT reviews Hydrogen as an alternative technology and prepares a practical guide for public transport implementationWe are all agreed on the need to...
CENIT heads up innovative pilots to create foundations for a fossil-fuel free transportation zone business model for small businessesThe post-pandemic growth of e-commerce has raised concerns about the viability of small businesses being able to survive in a...
Francisco Rodero, Lead on Intelligent Transport Systems at CENIT, heads up a training session on mobility modelling during this coming month of June and July hosted by the Professional Association of Col.legi de Camins. Francisco will be sharing his expert knowledge...
The post analysis of the recent blocking of the Suez Canal during six days following the grounding of the 20,000 TEU container ship Ever Given continues with CENIT´s Javier Garrido being quoted in April´s edition of Mar. The full article runs from page 6, with Javier...
CENIT is delighted to announce that our PIONEERS consortium led by the Port of Antwerp has been awarded a 25 million euro grant from European Commission´s Horizon 2020 programme. CENIT will be working alongside other leading international think-tanks, ports, terminal-...
CENIT is in the news with Director Sergi Saurí being interviewed on Good Morning Europe on the continued debate surrounding the Government's plans to introduce pay per use tolls on all public highways by 2024. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAxFCu8_JbY
On April 1st, HALLO project has kicked-off. Promoted by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology, it will create shared Urban Consolidation and Distribution Centres (UCDC) in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and demonstrate complementary actions such...
The Latin American Development Bank report highlights the current investment gap in the region and reviews intervention strategies to tackle future challenges and trends Increased and sustained investment in infrastructure is of paramount importance for...
CENIT has pioneered a holistic approach to evaluate infrastructure investments using an inclusive Cost Benefit Analysis approach All new major road and rail investment projects are subject to a set of strict criteria to determine the correct use of public funds...
CENIT aids call for municipal action on urban mobility with practical procurement guide for alternative bus technology Flowchart | Download PDF Traditionally the increase in urban mobility demand and infrastructure has been positively correlated with...
A new methodology to quantify ship emissions in the Port of Barcelona reduces the emissions of the most contaminating ships For years the environmental impact of port emissions has been overestimated due to a miss match in methodologies. Pollution from ship...
Eglantina Dani is the co-leader of the European project EnerNETMob: Mediterranean Interregional Electromobility Networks for intermodal and interurban low carbon transport systems at CIMNE. She is a member of CENIT, Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of...
África Marrero, Naval and Oceanic Engineer by the Technical University of Cartagena, joined CENIT, the Innovation in Multimodal Transport Group of CIMNE, two years ago. Marrero’s research areas include computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and sustainable...
El pasado día 3 de noviembre tuvo lugar la primera Jornada sobre Oportunidades de Innovación en Biomedicina del Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid. Juan Ángel Jover, Jefe del Servicio de Reumatología del Hospital, y Julio...