Elena López SuárezTRANSYT- UPM Madrid Polythecnic University; Clinical Psychologist at Private Consultancy
Elena López Suárez
Psychologist (Ph.D., MA BA.), Civil Engineer (PhD MS BSE.)
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
June 2010 - November 2020
Private Psychotheray Consultancy
Position
- Medical Professional
October 2002 - present
Education
September 2013 - June 2016
September 2010 - September 2013
September 2006 - June 2010
Publications
Publications (53)
The aim of this article is to identify the factors affecting user perception of transfers in order to reduce the penalty associated with transfers. Policy makers can thus concentrate on the most relevant factors to achieve a more effective investment of public funds. We carried out an extensive review of the literature and identified a total of 45...
Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) represents a technological innovation with the potential to revolutionise the urban mobility paradigm, triggering a societal shift towards more sustainable travel behaviours. Successful implementation of these novel mobility solutions will largely rely on travellers' adoption of MaaS mobile-technologies. As with any new...
Objectives
The present research was intended to validate a new psychometric instrument—the Meditative State Scale (MSS)—designed from a novel approach that integrates knowledge from the foundational pillars in which meditation practices were grounded with recent neuroscientific and psychological findings.
Methods
The research was divided into two...
Issues of territorial scale are of great importance in rail transport, mainly due to the inherently discontinuous spatial nature of access to rail networks deriving from the necessary spatial separation between stations. Their study requires the use of spatial analysis techniques, in which accessibility indicators play a major role with the support...
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" Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-speed Rail Cities and Regions evaluates the varied experiences that HSR systems have brought about to different station-cities and their regional territories around the world, with an eye towards better future planning and policy of such systems.
This e...
High Speed Rail (HSR) in Spain began in 1992 and currently has a network of some 3200 km. In this 25-year period, accessibility has progressively increased, changing its spatial distribution throughout the country. However, improvements in the HSR network may or may not have contributed to a more balanced territorial distribution of accessibility l...
The computation of accessibility indicators requires the analyst to decide how spatial data are to be allocated in the defined areal units. This implies the selection of a geographical representation system and a spatial data distribution procedure to allocate data in each unit. However, there is no consensus on a “best choice” from the set of avai...
A Spanish adapted version of the Expressions of Spirituality Inventory- Revised (ESI-R;
MacDonald, 2000a, 2000b), a 30-item measure of a five factor model of spirituality, was
administered to a sample of 376 adults along with Spanish adaptations of the NEO-FFI
personality inventory (Manga, Ramos, & Morán, 2004), the Ryff ’s Scales of Psychological...
In conjunction, meditative practice, clinical practice and scientific research could be a good way to understand the phenomenon of the states that occurs in meditation/mindfulness based on the potential breadth of perception that this conjunction may offer. Based on this triple approach, this paper develops a new way of categorizing the states of c...
Transition to a cyclable city: Policies and variables affecting cycling commuting
Urban areas benefit from significant improvements in accessibility when a new high speed rail (HSR) project is built. These improvements, which are due mainly to a rise in efficiency, produce locational advantages and increase the attractiveness of these cities, thereby possibly enhancing their competitiveness and economic growth. However, there ma...
The conflict of efficiency vs. cohesion objectives is of particular interest in the transport planning field. If the only objective was the maximization of economic growth, the ‘most efficient’ policy would attempt to concentrate the economic activity in several strong regional centres and interconnect them with a high quality transport...
In the last few years, the European Union (EU) has become greatly concerned about the environmental costs of road transport in Europe as a result of the constant growth in the market share of trucks and the steady decline in the market share of railroads. In order to reverse this trend, the EU is promoting the implementation of additional charges f...
This paper develops a methodology for calculating the European value added value (EVA) generated by transport infrastructure projects. This approach is particularly useful for evaluating projects in the framework of Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), although it may also be used in trans-national projects in other geographical areas. The me...
Background
Energy Policy is one of the main drivers of Transport Policy. A number of strategies to reduce current energy consumption trends in the transport sector have been designed over the last decades. They include fuel taxes, more efficient technologies and changing travel behavior through demand regulation. But energy market has a high degree...
In this paper we developed a methodology based on the input-output approach to estimate the effect that charging Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) may have on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). In order to test this methodology, we applied the model to the case study of Spain. We found that the increase in the CPI owing to the charges applied to HGVs is not...
Last decades have witnessed significant advances in transportation planning methodologies, facilitated by the development of computational algorithms, technologies, spatial modeling tools—such as geographical information systems (GIS) and decision support systems (DSS). However, at strategic planning levels, a commonly accepted assessment model int...
Most Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) research has been concerned with SEA as a procedure, and there have been relatively few developments and tests of analytical methodologies. The first stage of the SEA is the ‘screening’, which is the process whereby a decision is taken on whether or not SEA is required for a particular programme or plan...
The inclusion of strategic environmental effects of transport infrastructure plans in assessment methodologies is an active
research field. This paper addresses this issue and defines a methodology for the evaluation of climate change effects of
the extension of High Capacity road and rail networks at strategic levels. This evaluation is carried ou...
Traditional transport infrastructure assessment methodologies rarely include the full range of strategic benefits for the transportation system. One of these benefits is the contribution to cross‐border integration, critical for the European integration process. However, this is a key issue in strategic planning and decision‐making processes, as it...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present what kind of elements and evaluation methods should be included into a framework for evaluating the achievements and impacts of transport projects supported in EC Framework Programmes (FP). Further, the paper discusses the possibilities of such an evaluation framework in producing recommendations rega...
Las actuaciones previstas en el Plan Estratégico de Infraestructuras y Transporte 2005-2020 (PEIT) suponen ampliar la red de carreteras de alta capacidad en 5.000 km y la de ferrocarril de altas prestaciones en 6.000 km, con una inversión de 120.000 millones de euros. Esta mejora de las infraestructuras producirá una redistribución de los niveles d...
The success of implementing alternative fuels for road transport depends on their cost, performance and reliability. This paper focuses on the use of natural gas and LPG, hydrogen and biofuels in Europe. A brief presentation is given of their technical development status, their market potential, and barriers to their implementation in various marke...
Cohesion is considered one of the main policy goals both at a EU an national level. However, there is currently a lack of a common approach to measure cohesion effects of large-scale transport infrastructure investments. Accessibility indicators have an unexploited potential in transportation assessment methodologies. Accessibility is considered an...
Traditional transport infrastructure assessment methodologies rarely include the full range of strategic benefits for the transportation system. One of these benefits is the contribution to cross-border integration. However, this is a key issue in strategic planning and decision-making processes, as its inclusion may increase the probability of lar...
ABSTRACT
Last decades have witnessed a shift in transport planning objectives from economic
efficiency towards strategic policy goals, such as cohesion or environmental issues,
intimately linked with the ‘sustainable transport’ paradigm. However, the treatment
of these strategic aspects is uneven and scarce among assessment methodologies.
The devel...
Accessibility gains arising from transport infrastructure improvements are one of the key elements boosting a complex process involving transport, land use and regional development effects. The inclusion of the wider socio-economic effects stemming from large-scale transport infrastructure investments is uneven among national evaluation procedures,...
Cohesion is considered one of the main policy goals both at EU and national levels. However, there is currently a lack of a common approach to measure cohesion effects of large-scale transport infrastructure investments. Accessibility indicators have an unexploited potential in transportation assessment methodologies. Accessibility is considered an...
Equity issues are increasingly included among social impacts of transportation investments. Equity implications take into account the distribution of effects among different societal groups (social equity) or regions (spatial equity). The analysis of the spatial distribution of effects is crucial, as certain transportation investments may contribut...
Spanish Infrastructure Master Plan 2000-2007 will lead to important changes in the structure of national transport network and its access to transeuropean networks. One of the key objectives of the Plan is to encourage national competitiveness, not only in the current European market, but also to face the imminent UE enlargement, which will intensi...
The ambitious planned development of the high-speed rail (HSR) network in Spain requires the implementation of new sector regulations to fully achieve its objectives, namely to make the sector more competitive and to promote a more balanced and efficient transport system. For this purpose, the Spanish administration recently launched the new Rail S...
3) elopez@caminos.upm.es (4)TRANSyT-UPM, Centro de Investigación del Transporte, Av. Profesor Aranguren, s/n, 28040, Madrid, España, andres.monzon@upm.es RESUMEN El presente trabajo propone una metodología para calcular el valor añadido europeo (VAE) generado por proyectos de infraestructuras de transporte. En particular, este enfoque es especialme...
El fenómeno de la fragmentación de hábitats es una de las mayores amenazas para la conservación de la biodiversidad. Las infraestructuras lineales de transporte están consideradas como uno de los principales agentes responsables de este fenómeno, por su efecto de ruptura de las unidades ambientales que atraviesan. Sin embargo, la inclusión de los e...
Las infraestructuras de transporte juegan un papel muy importante como elemento vertebrador del territorio de la Comunidad de Castilla y León. Para analizar este papel es necesario un análisis integrado de la calidad del sistema de transporte y de las características del sistema territorial. Esta integración se realiza mediante la utilización de in...
The Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive (2001/42/EU) establishes that the Environmental Report must include the identification and evaluation of the likely significant effects on the environment of implementing the Plan or Programme due to be studied. Transport Plans usually generate accessibility improvements or facilitate access between...
En las ultimas decadas se viene produciendo un cambio en los objetivos que dirigen las labores de planificacion de infraestructuras de transporte. Este cambio ha provocado que, junto a criterios como la eficiencia economica, se incluyan objetivos de caracter mas estrategico, como la cohesion o los aspectos medioambientales. Sin embargo, no existe u...
El PEIT ha establecido las características de las líneas ferroviarias de alta velocidad de manera homogénea. Asimismo, se ha hecho una evaluación todo-nada de las propuestas ferroviarias del PEIT. Sin embargo, no todas las líneas tendrán los mismos impactos territoriales. En el presente trabajo se presenta una metodología para aislar el impacto de...
The construction of a high speed rail project may both contribute to strategic transport policy goals, and at the same time it may result in negative impacts. Among them, this paper addresses the issue of the conflict between efficiency (economic) vs. equity (social) effects of high speed rail projects. If the only objective was the maximization of...
Projects
Project (1)
The overall aim of STEPS was to develop, compare and assess possible scenarios for the transport system and energy supply of the future and supports both the overall FP6 Programme objective and the specific future needs of the transport energy sector. In doing this it took into account effects such as:
* autonomy and security of energy supply;
* effects on the environment;
* economic, technical and industrial viability and
* interactions between transport & land use.
