CPS Ingenieros

CPS is to undertake tasks related to management, analysis, trials, studies and the preparation of reports on ITS, Road Safety, modelling, and information management issues concerning the use and operation of roads in specific circumstances such as mass movements, adverse weather conditions, road works, sporting events or other incidents

The methodology followed by the INTERNATIONAL ROAD ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME (IRAP) enables road safety to be assessed and classified basedon a star-regulated evaluation system. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently considers this system to be the ideal instrument for establishing road safety infrastructure improvement targets.

The accreditation obtained by CPS, encompassed within the extensive experience of the Road Safety technical team in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Italy and Portugal, allows the development of the following activities related to road safety:

• Road Surveying
• Road Attribute Coding
• Analysis and Reporting

OD/SMART (new system for automatic vehicle counting on intersections), shall be developed over the course of the next three years. The consortium is headed by the company BINARIA and, apart from CPS INGENIEROS,the UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA is also involved. This ambitious research project falls within the domain of new technologies and ITS development for the improvement of mobility study procedures.

Valencia has celebrated the European week of sustainable mobility, a week full of activities for the promotion of sustainable mobility. In the schedule of the week, the Conselleria presents the awards European week of sustainable mobility in the Valencian Community (SEMcv). Among those awarded: territorial entities and social agents that have stood out for their actions or measures towards sustainable mobility.

The plan indicates the lines of action to advance the objective of creating a safer, friendlier and more accessible city. The plan establishes strategies of short, medium and long term for its application before 2023 and contains eight lines of actions to be developed. These lines of action include the improvement of infrastructures, education and dissemination, the process of data collection and study in depth as to where the accidents have occurred and been registered. It also includes a wide range of actions to be developed by all the City services and councils.

With the main objective of reducing the number of accidents by ensuring the safe mobility of different users within Valencia’s public space, CPS began preparation of the Plan, May of last year, through a series of interviews and surveys with the main stakeholders of mobility and road safety in Valencia, including different administrations. The stakeholders allowed CPS the first diagnosis of the situation.

With the diagnostic results, a participation survey was carried out with local relevant agencies that are associated with studying road safety in cities, to discuss and have feedback over the content, development, orientation and other relevant aspects that should be considered for the Plan. From there, eight local objectives and eight strategic lines of action were developed for the distinct work areas through an action plan composed of a series of different actions.

The Road Safety Master Plan allows for a framework document that summarizes what has been done so far and what has to be done in the coming years.

To know the service level of links 332 and 334 of the motorway after the commissioning of the business area, CPS has been contracted to carry out the traffic study in the links by collecting information in the field of a future prognosis of the projected state of the roads for the year of commissioning and in the coming year.

Estos enlaces actualmente dan servicio al municipio de Cheste y al Circuito de Cheste mediante un enlace de pesas compuesto cada uno de dos glorietas y un paso a distinto nivel que atraviesa la autovía y conecta ambas glorietas. These connections currently give service to the municipal of Cheste and Circuito de Cheste through connections that each are composed of 2 roundabouts and a crossing over the highway to connect both the roundabouts.

The objective of the Plan is to define the criteria and actions that, in the future, should make its mobility more sustainable economically, environmentally, and socially. Improvingroad safety, the offer of public transportation, pedestrian and cyclist mobility, accessibility,loading and unloading of goods/items or mobility under the concept of mobility and gender, are some of the aspects that PMUS will address.

The Plan will be developed in the following major phases: diagnosis of the current situation; program of actions; monitoring and dissemination plan. The citizen participation, transversal to the development of the works, is a fundamental element to achieve a consensual agreement with future guarantees.

The technical team of the Traffic and Mobility Department of CPS participated in the innovation workshops organized by the Generalidad Valenciana dedicated to the development of mobility from the point of views of gender and children.

These workshops dealt with different issues related to current mobility and where actions should be directed to achieve mobility that is more inclusive in the future, taking into account the needs of people in each scenario that makes up mobility. In this way, the workshop generated several working groups, where CPS experts participated in both as members of the table and as moderators. The results of these workshops have been compiled and published on the page of the Generalitat in the following link: http://www.habitatge.gva.es/es/talleres-de-innovacion.

Within the framework of several activities held to celebrate the Second Week of Sustainable Mobility organized by Sedaví’s Town Hall, the PMUS document was presented to coincide with completion of its final draft.

Throughout the development of this Plan, a full data collection has been conducted in the town (surveys, vehicle capacity meters, road inventory, etc.) and in March an Open Day to encourage citizen participation was held.

Following the appraisal and diagnosis stage, the finalized document has been completed and includes all activities programmed within the Plan and follow-up in the future.

The citizen participation workshop was held on 27 March 2018 at Sedaví Town Hall after notifying residents via the different social media channels available (website, Facebook, etc.) A specific call was made to municipal associations to provide a voice for all involved to take part and present their issues and proposals related to mobility in the town and through the PMUS, work towards an improved, more sustainable urban mobility in Sedaví.

The workshop consisted of a presentation of the objective addressed therein along with a group analysis exercise of the main obstacles with regard to 6 large mobility-related groups, these being:

• 1. Pedestrian Infrastructure
• 2. Accessibility
• 3. Cyclist Infrastructure
• 4. Public Transport Access
• 5. Freight Transport
• 6. Private Transport and Parking

After collecting the results a large map of the town was presented so that participants could point out specific areas in the town with problems.

The entire development and conclusions of the workshop will be compiled in a significant chapter included in the PMUS completing the diagnosis stage and providing a basis for the following proposals and future actions stage.

The project is for a cycle route made up of 1.300 metres of one-directional cycle route shared with other motor vehicles and 800 metres of conventional mandatory two-directional cycle lane. This stretch will connect the current cycle lane located on the east side of the Avenida de Aragón with that ofcalleJerónimoMonsoriu, opposite MetroValencia’s Line T2 Ayora Metro Station. The layout of the shared-use cycle route runs through the streets of Vicente Sancho-Tello, Rodríguez de Cepeda, Aben Al Abbar, Puebla de Farnals, CardenalBenllochandEolountil it connects with the mandatory cycle lane onAvenida de Aragón. The stretch of mandatory cycle lane starts at the intersection of Rodríguez de CepedaandAben Al Abbar streets, runs along Ramiro de Maetzu, and ends inJerónimoMonsoriu. The new cycle lane is 2.50 metres wide with discontinued kerbs and mainly takes up areas currently used for parking and carriageways, thereby minimising the use of footpaths. Carriageways and parking areas have been redistributed and new parking areasfor motorcycles and bicycles have been provided, adapting signalling and traffic lights accordingly.