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Those responsible for the seven lines of research that finance the Municipal Infrastructure and Environmental Chairs of the City Council of Cartagena - UPCT have presented the advances in their respective investigations, which will conclude at the end of the year.

Its objective is to promote since 2015 the technological transformation and sustainability of the municipality and has an annual budget of more than 100,000 euros, thanks to which this year there are 15 scholarship students to develop the different research led by a dozen teachers from the Polytechnic University from Cartagena.

In the area of ​​Infrastructure, coordinated by José Pérez, a mobility study has been carried out in the historic center and in the widening, prioritizing the use of roads, accounting for up to 15,000 parking spaces and analyzing traffic delays through real trials with the 'floating vehicle' technique.

"We have only found specific problems of congestion in the roundabouts of Mandarache and Puertas de San José," says researcher Pilar Jiménez, noting also that improvements will be proposed in the road, in areas of limited speed at 30 kilometers per hour and on the bike lanes, "given the problems of discontinuity detected," he says.

The intermodality of the means of transport, pedestrian mobility and the viability of the taxi sector are the other two lines of research that this chair of the City Council of Cartagena and the UPCT have underway.

In addition, projects are being developed to reduce the carbon footprint in water purification, in the adaptation of parks and gardens to climate change and in the reuse of solid urban waste through its composting, highlighting the collection by separated from organic waste that will be mandatory in the European Union from next year.

This line is coordinated by Professor Ángel Faz.

"We are studying the viability as a fertilizer for the mixture of solid urban waste with the remains of pruning and with the algae that are collected on the beaches of the Mar Menor", explains the researcher of the GARSA group Lola Gómez, advancing that from September The trials will begin, for which remains collected in the dining room of the Alberto Colao University residence of the UPCT will be used.

UPCT students are also studying microdepuration alternatives powered by renewable energies for sewage treatment plants in rural Cartagena.

In the same area, Agricultural Engineering and Architecture researchers are developing a catalog of species adapted to climate change and studying the influence of lighting systems on the vegetation of parks and gardens.

On the trees already existing in the city, researchers are also working in Telecommunications who are developing an 'app' that will plan routes through green corridors and climate shelters within the city and that will collect real-time information on the weather conditions that will be collected by the network of sensors that the City Council is deploying and for which professors and students of 'Teleco' are conducting a radio coverage study to plan the location of the necessary base stations.

Source: UPCT