Begoña Guirao Abad is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Transport Engineering, Regional and urban Planning, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). She has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM (1990–1996). She received an FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education (1996–2000) and read her doctoral thesis in 2000, in the Department of Civil-Transport Engineering (UPM). During the period 2000–2003, she was a Research Fellow at ETSI Caminos of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), and in 2003, she was appointed Senior Lecturer at the UCLM in the area of Engineering and Infrastructure of Transports. In 2006, she moved to UPM. Her research activity focuses on road safety and transport planning (mainly carsharing, transit service quality, and high speed rail lines impacts on mobility). She is the author of more than 20 papers in indexed scientific journals and has participated in more than 15 research projects.