DATS is a Research Group attached to the University Research Institute on Traffic and Road Safety (INTRAS). The research group was created in 1995 and is formed by professors and researchers of renowned prestige.
The aim of the DATS Group is focused on Consulting, Research, Development, Innovation, Training and Dissemination Projects in the fields of Transport, Traffic, Mobility and Road Safety.
It develops its projects both for administrations and institutions as well as for companies, whether public or private, national or international, in order to respond to the needs of its clients, as well as in general to solve the social problems represented by traffic accidents, poverty and environmental degradation across the world, with special attention to developing countries.
Therefore, one of the main activities is the accompaniment in the diagnosis of problems and detection of opportunities, as well as the definition of solutions and strategies to guide decision-making.
The work of the DATS Group has contributed to increase knowledge in the field. In this sense, the group has made an effort to disseminate findings through books, articles in scientific journals and/or scientific and outreaching conferences. Likewise, the group has actively participated in and with mass media with the aim of communicating and raising public awareness.
Consequently, the following services are included in its Service Charter:
- Preparation/Drafting of Strategic Plans for Transport, Logistics, Sustainable Mobility, Local and Urban Planning, Road and Workplace Safety (in-itinere and in-mission accidents).
- Definition, development and implementation of interventions, measures and counter-measures in the fields of Transport, Mobility and Road Safety.
- Legislative, Regulatory and Normative development.
- Deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
- Assessment and recruitment, especially of drivers, both positive and negative, including the development of instruments to achieve these goals.
- Design and teaching of training and education programmes, as well as the necessary teaching tools and resources (including those based on technologies such as Virtual Reality, especially simulators, and Augmented Reality). It is aimed at scholars, professionals, technicians and users/citizens in general.
- Creation of communication and advertising campaigns, including Corporate Social Marketing campaigns.
- Evaluation of Plans, Programmes and interventions, including those related to legislative, regulatory and normative development (Legislative Assessment).
The research group conducts its research activity in different lines of work:
- Childhood and environment line
Cohort study in collaboration with other research centres (INMA project) to share methodologies and knowledge on the effects of the environment on children's health, to describe the level of exposure and pollution during gestation and early childhood, to assess the role of the most common environmental pollutants and dietary protective factors on foetal growth and neuro-endocrine-immune development in order to develop environmental health indicators.
- Air pollution and health line
Study of the relationship between air pollution and health effects, developing multi-centre studies. Studies are also carried out to evaluate the impact of pollution on the health of the population.
- Weather and climate line
Evaluation of the relationship between climatic factors and meteorological variables, especially ambient temperature and health, as well as public health measures that can minimise the impact of foreseeable future climate changes.
- Line of evaluation of the health impact of various environmental risks
Through the measurement of the degree of exposure to risks, the development of biological markers and the relationship between these factors and the incidence of various pathologies. This impact is evaluated from different perspectives, ranging from environmental pollution (through biomarkers of exposure) to climate change (heat and cold waves), as well as the impact of certain technologies affecting the environment (mobile telephony, power lines, etc.).
Facthum is dedicated to training and research in the field of basic psychology and road safety, focusing on the human factor as the main factor involved in or responsible for traffic accidents. The research activity focuses on:
- Study of methodologies and technologies applied to road safety education.
- Study of methodologies and technologies applied to driver and pre-driver training.
- Study of the effect of substance consumption (drugs and pharmaceuticals) on driving.
- Study of the psychological profile of drivers and offenders.
- Study of the effectiveness of passive safety elements and user habits.
- Study of personality and psychophysical aptitudes in driving.
- Intervention in recidivist and multi-recidivist drivers.
- Study of basic psychological processes related to driving vehicles.
- Study of decision-making processes at the wheel.
- Study of drivers' attitudes towards road safety.
- Study of human behaviour to reduce traffic accidents.
- Study of road safety awareness campaigns.
- Study of the causes of traffic accidents and methods for their prevention.
- Study of variable messaging signalling.
- Accident investigation.
- Study of mobility and strategic road safety plans.
This research group is interested in the analysis of human movement related to motor control and physical activity from a health perspective. Therefore, its interest is focused both on the dynamic, kinematic and electromyographic analysis during the performance of activities such as static balance and gait and the analysis of the amount of physical activity (voluntary movement) performed by people and the relationship of this with their health. On the other hand, the group also conducts research in other areas related to physical exercise, applying advanced data analysis techniques (e.g. neural networks, text mining, data mining). During the last 5 years the research group has published around 40 articles indexed in JCR, of which we highlight the following 5 for their importance in the opinion of the members of the group:
- González, L.-M., García-Massó, X., Pardo-Ibañez, A., Peset, F., & Devís-Devís, J. (2018). An author keyword analysis for mapping Sport Sciences. PLOS ONE, 13(8), e0201435. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201435
- García-Massó, X., Ye-Lin, Y., Garcia-Casado, J., Querol, F., & Gonzalez, L.-M. (2019). Assessment of haemophilic arthropathy through balance analysis: A promising tool. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 22(4), 418-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2018.1561877
- González, L.-M., Devís-Devís, J., Pellicer-Chenoll, M., Pans, M., Pardo-Ibañez, A., García-Massó, X., Peset, F., Garzón-Farinós, F., & Pérez-Samaniego, V. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Sport in Twitter: A Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(9), 4554. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094554
- Maitre, J., Noé, F., González, L.-M., García-Massó, X., & Paillard, T. (2021). The tightening parameters of the vibratory devices modify their disturbing postural effects. Journal of Biomechanics, 126, 110624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110624
- Pellicer-Chenoll, M., Pans, M., Seifert, R., López-Cañada, E., García-Massó, X., Devís-Devís, J., & González, L.-M. (2021). Gender differences in bicycle sharing system usage in the city of Valencia. Sustainable Cities and Society, 65, 102556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102556
The information and communication systems group (GSIC) was founded in December 2005. The group is currently working in the field of wireless and mobile communications, including advanced multi-antenna solutions with cooperation and coordination, cognitive radios, channel estimation algorithms, etc. The group has participated in numerous national and European research projects, such as:
- CONSOLIDER Project: Foundations and Methodologies for Future Communication and Sensor Networks (COMONSENS).
- Collaborative processing and Self-organized communications for Wireless Sensor Networks (SOFIWORKS).
- Thematic Network: Information & Communication Theory and Technologies (INFOCOM).
- Cooperative and Cognitive Interference Management Strategies for Wireless Communication Networks (COSIMA).
- Radio-access techniques for heterogeneous wireless networks (RACHEL).
- Radio-access techniques for improving urban mobility in beyond 5G networks (RAMONET).
- FP7-ICT-2011-7.3.3, Autonomous Control of Large-scale Water Treatment Plants based on Self-Organized Wireless BioMEM Sensor and Actuator Networks (HYDROBIONETS).
- FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF, Wireless Sensor Networks for Cognitive Software Radios (WISERNETS).
- FP6 D2002-Mobility-3, Collaborative Signal Processing for Efficient Wireless Networks (ASPIRE).
- FP6 NoE-IST-4-027738, Creating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Applications (CRUISE).
- FP7-ICT-2007-1-1.1 (Network of the Future), Sensor Network for Dynamic and Cognitive Radio Access (SENDORA). The group has also led the Valencia5G agreement (2019-2021).
The research activity of the Innovation and Local Development R&D Group (INNODES) belonging to the Inter-University Institute of Local Development (IIDL) of the Universitat de València and Universitat Jaume I, focuses on aspects related to economic geography, spatial planning and regional development, in particular on the analysis of urban and metropolitan systems, innovation processes, planning of public services, geography of well-being, social innovation, tourism and its territorial impact, sustainability and processes of resilience and local development; as well as in the analysis of social dynamics, population movements and development cooperation in diverse territories.
The LISITT group was set up in 1989 with the aim of filling the existing gap in Spain in the area of telematics applications in the field of traffic and transport. Its initial activities were focused on the execution of international research and development projects within the European ESPRIT and DRIVE programmes of the 2nd Framework Programme of the European Union.
Since its origins, LISITT has specialised in the study and development of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), covering technological, organisational and strategic aspects. LISITT has been carrying out projects for more than 20 years for national traffic and transport administrations, including the Directorate General of Traffic, the Ministry of Public Works and its regional counterparts in the Basque and Catalan Governments. LISITT is currently a multidisciplinary group (Physics, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Mathematics, Geography) that brings together more than 60 professionals, all of them university graduates, including civil servants, contracted teachers and its own research staff, and has established itself as a reference group in consultancy on telematics applied to transport, in the development of ITS systems, and strategic consultancy on management issues and the development of traffic systems.
The work carried out since its origins has consolidated LISITT as a Spanish reference group in consultancy on telematics applied to transport, in the development of ITS systems, and strategic consultancy on management, development and maintenance of traffic systems for administrations, as reflected by the fact that LISITT has been participating for more than 10 years as expert advisors representing the Directorate-General for Traffic in different national and international standardisation committees and in European working groups on ITS systems, including the World Committee for Standardisation in ITS systems ISO/TC204, the European Committee for Standardisation of ITS systems CEN/TC278 and the Spanish Committee for Telematics applied to transport and road traffic AEN/CTN 159. The role played by LISITT in the creation, assistance and monitoring of the Euro-regional SERTI project (1995 - 2006), the Euro-regional ARTS project (1997 - 2006) and the European EasyWay project (2007-2013) should also be highlighted.
Apart from these consultancy activities in the standardisation groups in the field of ITS systems, LISITT's most important projects are grouped around the following topics:
- Consultancy to traffic administrations on coordination and organisation of international traffic control and management projects.
- Technical assistance to public administrations in traffic management and information systems.
- Study, development and maintenance of traffic information systems for public traffic administrations.
- Coordination and execution of R&D&I projects, both from the European Union and national calls for proposals.
- Analysis, design, construction and development of information systems for private companies.
- Computer security, data protection and privacy.
This group brings together researchers from different universities and disciplines who share a common goal: to develop research aimed, firstly, at providing a comprehensive education that contributes to the personal, intercultural and social education of 21st century students and, secondly, at developing their reading, linguistic, critical and creative skills and abilities.
To this end, we combine educational research with didactic innovation to study the pedagogical value of the use and impact of multiliteracies and multimodal resources in the classroom, through the approach of several cross-disciplines related primarily to the humanities, art education, foreign language teaching and new technologies for learning and knowledge (TAC).
The aim of Lit(T)erart is to deepen the contribution of these areas, mainly in teacher training and in the development of curricular proposals that promote the cognitive, conceptual, socio-cultural and aesthetic dimensions, and then focus on the design of an evaluation system based on the creation of rubrics that show the progress of students and the validity of the proposed methodology.
In line with the EHEA guidelines, we propose to build a didactic scaffolding based on the pedagogy of multiliteracies that not only considers language as an exclusive form for the construction of meanings, but also incorporates multimodality as a mode of representation for creating and expressing ideas.
The research group LSyM focuses its activity on simulation systems development, employing the latest Virtual Reality techniques. LSyM has always worked looking for close collaboration with the company and obtaining important results in the field of civil works. The group is a part of the Institute on Robotics and Information and Communications Technologies (IRTIC) of the Universitat de València.
Lines of research:
- Integration of the real-time immersive simulators: design of all simulator’s elements, including both hardware and software (dynamic models of objects and 3-D scenarios).
- Development of e-learning platforms based on 3-D simulation: simulation technologies based on WebGL and Unity-3D in order to implement virtual 3-D environments, executable from the browser on different computing platforms. Use of Moodle and other e-learning standards
- Advanced computing in graphics processing units (GPUs): Development of performance league calculation programmes based on CUDA, OpenCL and shaders, that run on GPU network architectures.
- Real-time physical modelling: Development of simulation and of models of collaborative behaviour between avatars.
Fields of application:
- Industrial: Virtual and augmented reality systems in several industrial areas (transport, railway sector, construction, maritime sector, etc.).
- Education: Web-based simulation of learning environments, e-learning platforms for training and evaluation courses.
Services to companies and other entities:
Technical assistance and consulting on:
- Development of real-time virtual environments to train operators of industrial machinery, cranes, civil engineering machinery and vehicles.
- Counselling on the integration of low-medium-high cost simulators and on the choice of the appropriate hardware for the app.
- Design and implementation of training systems based on the use of simulators in different areas (transport, heavy machinery, air traffic controllers, etc.) and focused on learning risk prevention techniques.
- Development of e-learning platforms
