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Begoña Guirao
Department of Transport Engineering, Regional and urban Planning, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM, 28040 Madrid, Spain

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Published: 23 May 2021 in Sustainability
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In most cities, discretionary passenger transport by car is predominantly supplied by taxi services. These services face competition from new digital platforms (UBER, Cabify, etc.) that connect users with the services offered by authorized drivers with a license for rented vehicles with drivers (VTC). However, very little is known about the impacts that these services produce in cities where they operate. So far, most studies on this issue have focused on cities of the United States of America, and they broadly found a positive impact in terms of road safety. Road safety has become one of the priority focuses for ensuring social welfare, to the point of being integrated into the Sustainable Development Goals as a primary value to achieve sustainable, safe and responsible mobility. Within this context, the objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of ride-hailing platforms on the frequency of traffic accidents with at least one fatally or seriously injured person in the municipality of Madrid from 2014 to 2018. To do this, a regression analysis has been carried out using a random effects negative binomial regression (RENB). The results of the model show that Uber and Cabify services are associated with a decrease in fatal and serious accidents in Madrid.

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María Flor; Armando Ortuño; Begoña Guirao; Jairo Casares. Analysis of the Impact of Ride-Hailing Services on Motor Vehicles Crashes in Madrid. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5855 .

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María Flor, Armando Ortuño, Begoña Guirao, Jairo Casares. Analysis of the Impact of Ride-Hailing Services on Motor Vehicles Crashes in Madrid. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):5855.

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María Flor; Armando Ortuño; Begoña Guirao; Jairo Casares. 2021. "Analysis of the Impact of Ride-Hailing Services on Motor Vehicles Crashes in Madrid." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 5855.

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Published: 09 April 2021 in Future Transportation
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In the last decades, car sharing has been a tool for city planners to reduce private car traffic and pollution in big urban areas. The emergence of the ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies), together with the development of the collaborative economy, has allowed for the birth of the new Free-Floating Carsharing (FFCS): A more flexible type of carsharing, in which electric cars can be used. Little research has been devoted using real FFCS flows data, to the FFCS impacts on user behavior and even on the public transport system thus far. Furthermore, in big metropolitan areas, central rail stations should promote modal interchanges, including new modes of electric FFCS systems. The aim of this paper is to design a web-based platform to collect and analyze FFCS demand on the surrounding areas of rail stations and makes a proposal to provide these systems with electrical recharging energy obtained from the regenerative braking of high-speed trains. This case study includes Atocha and Chamartín Central Stations in Madrid (Spain). Scientific evidence shows a high demand of FFCS cars at central rail stations and a trip profile with a short time duration linked to the closest districts of rail stations.

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Begoña Guirao; Rafael Molina-Sánchez; Armando Ortuño; Daniel Gálvez-Pérez. Integration of Free Floating Car Sharing Systems in Rail Stations: A Web Based Data Analysis. Future Transportation 2021, 1, 38 -53.

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Begoña Guirao, Rafael Molina-Sánchez, Armando Ortuño, Daniel Gálvez-Pérez. Integration of Free Floating Car Sharing Systems in Rail Stations: A Web Based Data Analysis. Future Transportation. 2021; 1 (1):38-53.

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Begoña Guirao; Rafael Molina-Sánchez; Armando Ortuño; Daniel Gálvez-Pérez. 2021. "Integration of Free Floating Car Sharing Systems in Rail Stations: A Web Based Data Analysis." Future Transportation 1, no. 1: 38-53.

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Published: 13 March 2020 in Sustainability
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Globally, road traffic accidents are an important public health concern which needs to be tackled. A multidisciplinary approach is required to understand what causes them and to provide the evidence for policy support. In Spain, one of the roads with the highest fatality rate is the crosstown road, a particular type of rural road in which urban and interurban traffic meet, producing conflicts and interference with the population. This paper contributes to the previous existing research on the Spanish crosstown roads, providing a new vision that had not been analyzed so far: the driver’s perspective. The main purpose of the investigation is to identify the contributing factors that increment the likelihood of a fatal outcome based on single-vehicle crashes, which occurred on Spanish crosstown roads in the period 2006-2016. In order to achieve this aim, 1064 accidents have been analyzed, applying a latent cluster analysis as an initial tool for the fragmentation of crashes. Next, a multinomial logit (MNL) model was applied to find the most important factors involved in driver injury severity. The statistical analysis reveals that factors such as lateral crosstown roads, low traffic volumes, higher percentages of heavy vehicles, wider lanes, the non-existence of road markings, and finally, infractions, increase the severity of the drivers’ injuries.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz; Begoña Guirao; Maria Attard. Analysis of the Risk Factors Affecting the Severity of Traffic Accidents on Spanish Crosstown Roads: The Driver’s Perspective. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2237 .

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Natalia Casado-Sanz, Begoña Guirao, Maria Attard. Analysis of the Risk Factors Affecting the Severity of Traffic Accidents on Spanish Crosstown Roads: The Driver’s Perspective. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (6):2237.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz; Begoña Guirao; Maria Attard. 2020. "Analysis of the Risk Factors Affecting the Severity of Traffic Accidents on Spanish Crosstown Roads: The Driver’s Perspective." Sustainability 12, no. 6: 2237.

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Published: 09 February 2020 in Sustainability
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Free-floating carsharing systems (FFCS) have become a new type of urban sustainable mobility, much more flexible than the previous station-based carsharing but limited by on-street parking availability and managed by municipal administrations. Literature on FFCS until now mostly relies on survey-based methodologies and simulations, and little research on FFCS has been devoted to the scientific analysis of real flows using revealed web-based data. This paper contributes to the existing literature with an analysis of FFCS trips using rental data collected directly from operators’ websites, paying special attention to the most frequent trips. The added value of this research is that it provides the first analysis of the more FFCS demanding districts in the city of Madrid. The results showed that the main origin and destinations points were concentrated in low populated and high-income districts that also had good parking availability and connectivity to the public transportation network.

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María Ampudia-Renuncio; Begoña Guirao; Rafael Molina-Sanchez; Luís Bragança. Electric Free-Floating Carsharing for Sustainable Cities: Characterization of Frequent Trip Profiles Using Acquired Rental Data. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1248 .

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María Ampudia-Renuncio, Begoña Guirao, Rafael Molina-Sanchez, Luís Bragança. Electric Free-Floating Carsharing for Sustainable Cities: Characterization of Frequent Trip Profiles Using Acquired Rental Data. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (3):1248.

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María Ampudia-Renuncio; Begoña Guirao; Rafael Molina-Sanchez; Luís Bragança. 2020. "Electric Free-Floating Carsharing for Sustainable Cities: Characterization of Frequent Trip Profiles Using Acquired Rental Data." Sustainability 12, no. 3: 1248.

Journal article
Published: 06 January 2020 in Cities
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In recent years the sharing economy has become established in different modes in the urban transport system, and claims to be reducing the number of cars and contributing to lower traffic pollution. Free-floating carsharing (FFCS) is a new and more flexible type of carsharing that is driving the growth of carsharing markets around the world. While there is a very extensive literature on traditional carsharing, more research needs to be done on the new FFCS trip profile in order to estimate its spillover effects on the urban transportation system. As FFCS systems are based on ICTs, new web-based methodologies (instead of traditional surveys) are the best approach to analyse them. This paper contributes to the existing literature with a spatial evaluation of the FFCS trip profile, obtaining a temporal distribution of the main flows throughout the FFCS service area. The added value of this research is that it provides the first spatial analysis of a FFCS system in Spain using rental data collected from the operators' websites. The results clearly show the prevalence of the short-distance FFCS trip that is faster than available public transport and whose origin and destination are closely dependent on parking availability.

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María Ampudia-Renuncio; Begoña Guirao; Rafael Molina-Sánchez; Cristina Engel de Álvarez. Understanding the spatial distribution of free-floating carsharing in cities: Analysis of the new Madrid experience through a web-based platform. Cities 2020, 98, 102593 .

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María Ampudia-Renuncio, Begoña Guirao, Rafael Molina-Sánchez, Cristina Engel de Álvarez. Understanding the spatial distribution of free-floating carsharing in cities: Analysis of the new Madrid experience through a web-based platform. Cities. 2020; 98 ():102593.

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María Ampudia-Renuncio; Begoña Guirao; Rafael Molina-Sánchez; Cristina Engel de Álvarez. 2020. "Understanding the spatial distribution of free-floating carsharing in cities: Analysis of the new Madrid experience through a web-based platform." Cities 98, no. : 102593.

Journal article
Published: 26 December 2019 in Sustainability
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Population growth has increased over the past two centuries. In the driest countries, water supply alternatives are scarce, with desalination being an alternative to ensure water supply to the population. Desalination plants have increased in size and efficiency, and require large investments, large infrastructures, and complex technology, besides they also need sophisticated contractual formulas to successfully build them. Various contract models are tools that should be used by taking into consideration the characteristics of the project, the parties involved, and who is responsible for each of the risks involved. To help choose the most suitable type of contract for a particular project, so-called decision support systems have been developed over the past thirty years. In this paper, a new decision support system is presented and applied to a case study of two desalination plants built under the design and build and turnkey modes of contract. The objective was to determine the most suitable contract model for these types of projects which had very ambitious objectives and decisive social, economic, and environmental implications.

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Francisco Berenguel-Felices; Antonio Lara-Galera; Begoña Guirao-Abad; Rubén Galindo-Aires. Contracting Formulas for Large Engineering Projects. The Case of Desalination Plants. Sustainability 2019, 12, 219 .

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Francisco Berenguel-Felices, Antonio Lara-Galera, Begoña Guirao-Abad, Rubén Galindo-Aires. Contracting Formulas for Large Engineering Projects. The Case of Desalination Plants. Sustainability. 2019; 12 (1):219.

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Francisco Berenguel-Felices; Antonio Lara-Galera; Begoña Guirao-Abad; Rubén Galindo-Aires. 2019. "Contracting Formulas for Large Engineering Projects. The Case of Desalination Plants." Sustainability 12, no. 1: 219.

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Published: 21 October 2019 in Sustainability
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Although transport infrastructure is one of the prominent factors that make Spain a major tourist destination, the international literature has revealed that the opening of new High-Speed Rail (HSR) lines is not sufficient by itself in order to increase tourist outputs in the new connected destinations. Nevertheless, the roles played by different characteristics of both travelers and destinations are of interest but they still remain not sufficiently explored. This paper focuses on the role played by HSR in fostering cultural tourism by applying a fixed-effect econometric model to a panel database (1988–2017). The database includes the number of tourists to some of the major Spanish cultural centers. The results show different impacts based on the regions, the characteristics of the museums, and the expected tourists. For destinations with previous cultural attraction, a positive effect is more evident. Moreover, the centrality of the HSR station as an enabling factor as well as the growth of the tourist market to the surrounding municipalities has been detected. Another interesting result is related to the cooperation effect between HSR and air transport, which encourages the arrivals of foreign tourists. These findings should help planners to develop policies that optimize tourist revenues by exploiting the potential of HSR development in the future.

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Juan Luis Campa; Francesca Pagliara; María Eugenia López-Lambas; Rosa Arce; Begoña Guirao. Impact of High-Speed Rail on Cultural Tourism Development: The Experience of the Spanish Museums and Monuments. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5845 .

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Juan Luis Campa, Francesca Pagliara, María Eugenia López-Lambas, Rosa Arce, Begoña Guirao. Impact of High-Speed Rail on Cultural Tourism Development: The Experience of the Spanish Museums and Monuments. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (20):5845.

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Juan Luis Campa; Francesca Pagliara; María Eugenia López-Lambas; Rosa Arce; Begoña Guirao. 2019. "Impact of High-Speed Rail on Cultural Tourism Development: The Experience of the Spanish Museums and Monuments." Sustainability 11, no. 20: 5845.

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Published: 22 September 2019 in Sustainability
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According to the Spanish General Traffic Accident Directorate, in 2017 a total of 351 pedestrians were killed, and 14,322 pedestrians were injured in motor vehicle crashes in Spain. However, very few studies have been conducted in order to analyse the main factors that contribute to pedestrian injury severity. This study analyses the accidents that involve a single vehicle and a single pedestrian on Spanish crosstown roads from 2006 to 2016 (1535 crashes). The factors that explain these accidents include infractions committed by the pedestrian and the driver, crash profiles, and infrastructure characteristics. As a preliminary tool for the segmentation of 1535 pedestrian crashes, a k-means cluster analysis was applied. In addition, multinomial logit (MNL) models were used for analysing crash data, where possible outcomes were fatalities and severe and minor injured pedestrians. According to the results of these models, the risk factors associated with pedestrian injury severity are as follows: visibility restricted by weather conditions or glare, infractions committed by the pedestrian (such as not using crossings, crossing unlawfully, or walking on the road), infractions committed by the driver (such as distracted driving and not respecting a light or a crossing), and finally, speed infractions committed by drivers (such as inadequate speed). This study proposes the specific safety countermeasures that in turn will improve overall road safety in this particular type of road.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz; Begoña Guirao; Antonio Lara Galera; Maria Attard. Investigating the Risk Factors Associated with the Severity of the Pedestrians Injured on Spanish Crosstown Roads. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5194 .

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Natalia Casado-Sanz, Begoña Guirao, Antonio Lara Galera, Maria Attard. Investigating the Risk Factors Associated with the Severity of the Pedestrians Injured on Spanish Crosstown Roads. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (19):5194.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz; Begoña Guirao; Antonio Lara Galera; Maria Attard. 2019. "Investigating the Risk Factors Associated with the Severity of the Pedestrians Injured on Spanish Crosstown Roads." Sustainability 11, no. 19: 5194.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2019 in Research in Transportation Business & Management
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The study of the relations of dependence between population ageing and road safety are becoming increasingly important with the ageing of the population in industrialised nations, which will imply a substantial increase in the number of older drivers and also in older pedestrians and cyclists. While there is extensive literature on the decline of driving and pedestrian skills in the elderly, few studies focus on the impact of age on accident severity according to the type of road. This approach has mainly been used for high-capacity routes, without considering rural roads. Rural roads are also associated with small towns, which have a higher percentage of elderly people who are more dependent on driving due to the absence or limitations of urban public transportation. In recent years Spain has seen a sharp rise in traffic accidents, especially in rural crosstown roads, and population ageing should be analysed as a potential risk factor. This paper contributes to the limited existing literature on rural road safety by applying a logistic regression model to the accidents on Spanish crosstown roads involving one vehicle and one elderly pedestrian in the period 2006–2015. The objective of the study is to analyse the conditional probability of a fatal outcome in the case of a crash resulting in at least one severe injury. On crosstown roads, territorial indicators associated to pedestrian mobility such as the physical severance index are revealed as interesting new variables to be considered in future research.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz; Begoña Guirao; Daniel Gálvez-Pérez. Population ageing and rural road accidents: Analysis of accident severity in traffic crashes with older pedestrians on Spanish crosstown roads. Research in Transportation Business & Management 2019, 30, 100377 .

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Natalia Casado-Sanz, Begoña Guirao, Daniel Gálvez-Pérez. Population ageing and rural road accidents: Analysis of accident severity in traffic crashes with older pedestrians on Spanish crosstown roads. Research in Transportation Business & Management. 2019; 30 ():100377.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz; Begoña Guirao; Daniel Gálvez-Pérez. 2019. "Population ageing and rural road accidents: Analysis of accident severity in traffic crashes with older pedestrians on Spanish crosstown roads." Research in Transportation Business & Management 30, no. : 100377.

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Published: 01 December 2018 in Journal of Infrastructure Systems
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Public Administrations need to raise private financial resources to provide for infrastructures. These projects are, however, perceived by investors as risky, so it is necessary to look for risk-sharing mechanisms that make them attractive and fundable. The establishment of a contingent subsidy linked to the volume of traffic reduces the variance of cash flows and reduces the risk of the project. The optional nature of this type of mechanism means that the project must be assessed within the real options framework, because traditional methods of project valuation are inappropriate when they incorporate flexibility and uncertainty. This work quantifies the value of a subsidy to the project depending on the volume of traffic under two different approaches: using analytical methods and simulation. The results show that the establishment of a subsidy according to traffic levels contributes an important value to the project.

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Antonio Lara Galera; Antonio Sánchez Soliño; Begoña Guirao Abad. Sharing Risks in Toll Motorway Concessions: Subsidies as Real Options on Traffic Volume. Journal of Infrastructure Systems 2018, 24, 06018001 .

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Antonio Lara Galera, Antonio Sánchez Soliño, Begoña Guirao Abad. Sharing Risks in Toll Motorway Concessions: Subsidies as Real Options on Traffic Volume. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 2018; 24 (4):06018001.

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Antonio Lara Galera; Antonio Sánchez Soliño; Begoña Guirao Abad. 2018. "Sharing Risks in Toll Motorway Concessions: Subsidies as Real Options on Traffic Volume." Journal of Infrastructure Systems 24, no. 4: 06018001.

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Published: 08 November 2018 in Regional Studies
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Begoña Guirao; Natalia Casado-Sanz; Juan Luis de la Campa. Labour opportunities provided by Spanish high-speed rail (HSR) commuting services in a period of financial crisis: an approach based on regional wage disparities and housing rental prices. Regional Studies 2018, 54, 539 -549.

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Begoña Guirao, Natalia Casado-Sanz, Juan Luis de la Campa. Labour opportunities provided by Spanish high-speed rail (HSR) commuting services in a period of financial crisis: an approach based on regional wage disparities and housing rental prices. Regional Studies. 2018; 54 (4):539-549.

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Begoña Guirao; Natalia Casado-Sanz; Juan Luis de la Campa. 2018. "Labour opportunities provided by Spanish high-speed rail (HSR) commuting services in a period of financial crisis: an approach based on regional wage disparities and housing rental prices." Regional Studies 54, no. 4: 539-549.

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Published: 30 October 2018 in Transportation Research Procedia
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Mobility in large cities is changing. Congestion and space problems and the growing concern for the environment make the citizen begin to abandon the private vehicle and look for alternatives of transportation. More flexible carsharing systems, such as Free-Floating Carsharing (FFCS), have broken into the markets of European and US cities, experiencing a surprising growth in demand. Smartphone applications enable the user to search and book a car close to his geographical position within a service area defined by each FFCS company. Users can take and leave the cars freely in public parking spaces inside the service area. Flexibility is, therefore, the main attraction and the most revolutionary feature of FFCS systems. While there is an extensive literature about the impacts of traditional station-based carsharing systems on public transportation and sustainability, little work has been done on FFCS systems. This paper contributes to the limited existing literature with an analysis of the behaviour of university students towards FFCS systems, taking Madrid (Ciudad Universitaria Campus) as case study. University students are a likely user population group, so their mobility patterns and transportation preferences have been studied. The methodology has been based on two survey campaigns conducted with a one-year time slot (2016: 186 valid questionnaires; 2017: 213 valid questionnaires). The results clearly show how the quality attributes of FFCS depend strongly on the maximum distance and time accepted by each user to walk and wait in the search of an available car.

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Begoña Guirao; M. Ampudia; R. Molina; J. García-Valdecasas. Student behaviour towards Free-Floating Carsharing: First evidences of the experience in Madrid. Transportation Research Procedia 2018, 33, 243 -250.

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Begoña Guirao, M. Ampudia, R. Molina, J. García-Valdecasas. Student behaviour towards Free-Floating Carsharing: First evidences of the experience in Madrid. Transportation Research Procedia. 2018; 33 ():243-250.

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Begoña Guirao; M. Ampudia; R. Molina; J. García-Valdecasas. 2018. "Student behaviour towards Free-Floating Carsharing: First evidences of the experience in Madrid." Transportation Research Procedia 33, no. : 243-250.

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Published: 30 October 2018 in Journal of Transport Geography
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The impact of High Speed Rail (HSR) on tourism is an important issue that has not been sufficiently studied until now. An analysis of the recent literature leads to the conclusion that these impacts depend on the characteristics of each tourist destination and the different pattern followed by domestic and foreign visitors. While studies focused on Asia show HSR to have a significant effect on tourism indicators, European case studies reveal a lower impact, mainly caused by foreign visitors. Nevertheless, a deeper analysis of foreign tourism and its relation with HSR is required. This paper empirically analyses how Spanish HSR (its existence and the growth of the network) conditions the number of foreign visitors, per country of origin, in the six regions linked by HSR. A fixed effects model has been applied to a new panel database (1997–2016) compiled with official statistics from surveys of tourists at borders, rather than through the traditional approach of considering hotel overstays. The results by country of origin show, for the main nationalities, that the influx of tourists is not dependent on the existence or expansion of HSR. However, the analysis at the regional level suggests that HSR benefits trips within mainland Spain to some coastal tourist destinations while its impact on visitor numbers in inland regions may be irrelevant or even negative. Finally, the enlargement of the HSR network may favour the regions in a central position in the network, encouraging further competition between the tourist destinations located at HSR network nodes.

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Juan Luis Campa; Rosa Arce; María Eugenia López-Lambas; Begoña Guirao. Can HSR improve the mobility of international tourists visiting Spain? Territorial evidence derived from the Spanish experience. Journal of Transport Geography 2018, 73, 94 -107.

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Juan Luis Campa, Rosa Arce, María Eugenia López-Lambas, Begoña Guirao. Can HSR improve the mobility of international tourists visiting Spain? Territorial evidence derived from the Spanish experience. Journal of Transport Geography. 2018; 73 ():94-107.

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Juan Luis Campa; Rosa Arce; María Eugenia López-Lambas; Begoña Guirao. 2018. "Can HSR improve the mobility of international tourists visiting Spain? Territorial evidence derived from the Spanish experience." Journal of Transport Geography 73, no. : 94-107.

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Published: 30 October 2018 in Transportation Research Procedia
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The recent spike in the accident rate of urban Spanish roads, after years of negative growth, has been accompanied by a serious increase in accidents in a specific type of road: crosstown roads (called “travesías” in Spanish). Thus, in 2013, there was a 47% increase in accidents with casualties in these routes over 2012 data; in 2014, an 88% increase over the previous year and, although 2015 data reflect a slight decline (-3%), figures are still worrying. Moreover, these routes have always shown a higher fatality rate than the rest of urban roads. The road safety analysis of these routes is complicated due to the diversity of the features, the dispersion of the data and the complete lack of related literature. The main target of this paper is the road safety characterization of these specific routes in order to explain why the accidents in these routes happen, their severity and their relation with the ageing process in Spain, where in 2012 the population over 65 years old was 17%, this ratio being even higher in small cities. Spanish General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) provided database (2006-2013) on accident statistics and the methodology was focused on cluster analysis, identifying 3 homogeneous groups of crosstown roads. With the final clusters, different behaviour patterns towards road safety were modelled and analysed, paying special attention to “vulnerable road users” (according to DGT definition). Results revealed the clear influence of the age variable in two of the clusters, but also some shortcomings in the database, which collects information on some routes that do not fulfil the conditions to be considered “passing routes”.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz; Begoña Guirao. Analysis of the impact of population ageing and territorial factors on crosstown roads safety: the Spanish case study. Transportation Research Procedia 2018, 33, 283 -290.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz, Begoña Guirao. Analysis of the impact of population ageing and territorial factors on crosstown roads safety: the Spanish case study. Transportation Research Procedia. 2018; 33 ():283-290.

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Natalia Casado-Sanz; Begoña Guirao. 2018. "Analysis of the impact of population ageing and territorial factors on crosstown roads safety: the Spanish case study." Transportation Research Procedia 33, no. : 283-290.

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Published: 17 September 2018 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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Carsharing systems have become an important tool for transport policymakers, as improvements in the perceived quality of these systems can reduce the number of cars, resulting in more sustainable cities. Recently, new types of car sharing such as free-floating carsharing (FFCS) are surprisingly driving the growth of the carsharing markets in European and US cities and there is a need to estimate their spillover effects and study strategies to promote their use. This paper contributes to the existing literature with a holistic evaluation of the impacts generated by FFCS on user behaviour in a specific population: university students. The added value of this research is that it provides the first analysis of the impacts of a FFCS (Car2go) system in Spain, and includes a comparison with previous similar research in the city of Hamburg. The methodology was based on a survey campaign of students (186 valid questionnaires), validated with over 330 sequential observations of available cars on the university campus. The results clearly show how the quality attributes of FFCS depend strongly on car availability and on the limit time and distance tolerated by each user to wait and walk in search of a free car respectively.

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María Ampudia-Renuncio; Begoña Guirao; Rafael Molina-Sanchez. The impact of free-floating carsharing on sustainable cities: analysis of first experiences in Madrid with the university campus. Sustainable Cities and Society 2018, 43, 462 -475.

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María Ampudia-Renuncio, Begoña Guirao, Rafael Molina-Sanchez. The impact of free-floating carsharing on sustainable cities: analysis of first experiences in Madrid with the university campus. Sustainable Cities and Society. 2018; 43 ():462-475.

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María Ampudia-Renuncio; Begoña Guirao; Rafael Molina-Sanchez. 2018. "The impact of free-floating carsharing on sustainable cities: analysis of first experiences in Madrid with the university campus." Sustainable Cities and Society 43, no. : 462-475.

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Published: 01 August 2018 in Cities
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Although the link between transport accessibility and the regional and local scope of labour markets has been widely studied in the literature, high speed rail (HSR) commuting is a relatively new user behaviour and little research has been done to date on labour migration derived from inter-regional HSR commuting. This paper contributes to the limited existing literature by analysing the evolution of the impact of HSR on labour markets in commuting relations. The added value of this research is that it is the first assessment of a panel data regression analysis taking account of HSR as a variable and using labour inter-regional mobility data (2002–2014). The model has been validated using the HSR commuting areas that converge in the metropolitan areas of Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Malaga. Results have highlighted the complexity of the variables involved in the decision to commute by HSR. This complexity is linked to the causal relations between the most representative variables, namely unemployment rates and housing prices, which are more difficult to study during periods of economic crisis. The location of the HSR station has been revealed as a key indicator, and is even more significant (in the case of the Madrid functional area) than the actual availability of the HSR commuting services.

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Begoña Guirao; Juan Luis Campa; Natalia Casado-Sanz. Labour mobility between cities and metropolitan integration: The role of high speed rail commuting in Spain. Cities 2018, 78, 140 -154.

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Begoña Guirao, Juan Luis Campa, Natalia Casado-Sanz. Labour mobility between cities and metropolitan integration: The role of high speed rail commuting in Spain. Cities. 2018; 78 ():140-154.

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Begoña Guirao; Juan Luis Campa; Natalia Casado-Sanz. 2018. "Labour mobility between cities and metropolitan integration: The role of high speed rail commuting in Spain." Cities 78, no. : 140-154.

Journal article
Published: 01 July 2017 in Land Use Policy
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Begoña Guirao; Antonio L. Lara Galera; Juan Luis de la Campa. High Speed Rail commuting impacts on labour migration: The case of the concentration of metropolis in the Madrid functional area. Land Use Policy 2017, 66, 131 -140.

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Begoña Guirao, Antonio L. Lara Galera, Juan Luis de la Campa. High Speed Rail commuting impacts on labour migration: The case of the concentration of metropolis in the Madrid functional area. Land Use Policy. 2017; 66 ():131-140.

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Begoña Guirao; Antonio L. Lara Galera; Juan Luis de la Campa. 2017. "High Speed Rail commuting impacts on labour migration: The case of the concentration of metropolis in the Madrid functional area." Land Use Policy 66, no. : 131-140.

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Published: 01 January 2017 in Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
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A successful civil engineering project is often a highly collaborative team-based activity, and the engineering education community must therefore prepare graduates to work in this type of environment. A large body of research has demonstrated the considerable benefits and minor organizational problems of collaborative work in higher education. However, there are only a few case studies reported in the literature that evaluate the positive and negative experiences encountered by students when undertaking group projects, and these invariably focus on first-year students. This paper contributes to this limited literature by assessing previously existing methodologies applied to group projects in the final year of an engineering degree, and compares the results with those obtained for students with no experience in collaborative work. The methodology was tested on a survey sample of 105 students enrolled in the Roads module of the new Civil and Territorial Engineering degree at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Although the results highlight the extremely positive effects of group projects on the students’ perceptions, certain deficiencies were also detected relating to the lack of previous collaborative work in the students’ background, an area which requires further research.

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Ph.D. Begoña Guirao; Jorge Escobar. Civil Engineering Students in the Final Year of Their Bachelor’s Degree: Evaluation of Group Project Work under a Retrospective Dimension. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 2017, 143, 04016019 .

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Ph.D. Begoña Guirao, Jorge Escobar. Civil Engineering Students in the Final Year of Their Bachelor’s Degree: Evaluation of Group Project Work under a Retrospective Dimension. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 2017; 143 (1):04016019.

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Ph.D. Begoña Guirao; Jorge Escobar. 2017. "Civil Engineering Students in the Final Year of Their Bachelor’s Degree: Evaluation of Group Project Work under a Retrospective Dimension." Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 143, no. 1: 04016019.

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Published: 21 December 2016 in Transportation Research Procedia
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Literature review shows that little research has done so far to estimate how tourism indicators are affected by new High Speed Rail (HSR) lines. In 2012, a multivariate panel analysis developed by Chen and Haynes was applied to the Chinese regions to quantify the HSR impact on tourism output. The Chinese experience confirmed that, during the period 1999-2010, emerging high speed rail services did have significant positive impacts on boosting tourism in China. Since them, no similar empirical tool has ever been tested in Europe. The aim of this paper is to analyze and validate the suitability of this tool to assess empirically the effects of HSR on Spanish tourism during the period 1999-2014, and to enhance the abovementioned model with a tourism database. With more than 20 years’ HSR experience, and operating the longest HSR network in Europe (2,900 km), Spain offers a good scenario for this model application because Spanish tourism sector represents 10.2% of its gross domestic product (GDP). Results clearly show that there is a direct linkage between the evolution of certain Spanish tourism outputs and the construction of the HSR network. However, authorś recommendations include future new research on some variables limitations like the type of tourism output considered or the consideration of alternative explanatory indicators.

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B. Guirao; Juan Luis de la Campa; María-Eugenia López-Lambas. The Assessment of the HSR Impacts on Spanish Tourism: An Approach Based on Multivariate Panel Data Analysis. Transportation Research Procedia 2016, 18, 197 -204.

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B. Guirao, Juan Luis de la Campa, María-Eugenia López-Lambas. The Assessment of the HSR Impacts on Spanish Tourism: An Approach Based on Multivariate Panel Data Analysis. Transportation Research Procedia. 2016; 18 ():197-204.

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B. Guirao; Juan Luis de la Campa; María-Eugenia López-Lambas. 2016. "The Assessment of the HSR Impacts on Spanish Tourism: An Approach Based on Multivariate Panel Data Analysis." Transportation Research Procedia 18, no. : 197-204.

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Published: 03 October 2016 in Journal of Transport Geography
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China and Spain are currently among the top tourist destinations, coming third and fourth place in the 2014 world ranking of tourist arrivals, behind France and the US. Tourism is crucial for the economies of Spain and China, and both countries have the longest high speed rail (HSR) networks in the world. What role has HSR infrastructure played in the development of tourism in both countries? Little research has been done to date, even in Europe, to estimate empirically how tourism indicators are affected by new HSR lines. In 2012 a multivariate panel analysis by Chen and Haynes was applied to 27 Chinese regions, and confirmed that emerging high speed rail services (during the period 1999–2010) had significant positive impacts on boosting tourism in China. No similar empirical tool has ever been tested in Europe. The aim of this paper is to analyse and validate this tool when applied to the Spanish context, and to develop a comparative analysis with the Chinese case study. The methodology is applied to 47 Spanish provinces during the period 1999–2015, and the results clearly reveal a positive but lower-value link (compared to China) between the increase in certain tourism outputs (foreign arrivals and revenues) and HSR network construction. However, further research is needed into the model's limitations, namely the availability of suitable tourism indicators in the official databases, the HSR explanatory variables considered, and the ability to detect “circular cause-effects” between HSR and tourism.

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Juan Luis Campa; María Eugenia López-Lambas; Begoña Guirao. High speed rail effects on tourism: Spanish empirical evidence derived from China's modelling experience. Journal of Transport Geography 2016, 57, 44 -54.

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Juan Luis Campa, María Eugenia López-Lambas, Begoña Guirao. High speed rail effects on tourism: Spanish empirical evidence derived from China's modelling experience. Journal of Transport Geography. 2016; 57 ():44-54.

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Juan Luis Campa; María Eugenia López-Lambas; Begoña Guirao. 2016. "High speed rail effects on tourism: Spanish empirical evidence derived from China's modelling experience." Journal of Transport Geography 57, no. : 44-54.