Rafael González Escobar

• Civil Engineering
• Master's Student at University of Extremadura

The scope of the research work described in this article involved identifying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the urban public transport system in a medium-sized city and its adjacent metropolitan area, using as reference information the number of tickets effectively sold in order to determine the fluctuation in the volume of passengers on...

The scope of the research work described in this article involved identifying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the urban public transport system in a medium-sized city and its adjacent metropolitan area, using as reference information the number of tickets effectively sold in order to determine the fluctuation in the volume of passengers on...

The aim of this research consisted of assessing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the interurban public transport system in a rural region with a sparse population density, considering the number of tickets sold and passengers in each locality, as well as the different connecting lines. From a methodological point of view and with the intenti...

The aim of this research work consisted of assessing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the interurban public transport system in a rural region with a sparse population density, considering the number of tickets sold and passengers in each locality, as well as the different connecting lines. From a methodological point of view and with the in...

Among the priority concerns that figure in the public manager’s portfolio, the existing problems in cities when planning a more efficient management of urban space are well known. Within the wide range of reflections that local corporations consider, one of their main concerns is based on achieving a more livable city model, where the quality of li...

The public decision-making process at the municipal level becomes extremely complicated for government managers when unpopular measures must be adopted. In this sense, citizen participation processes become a tool of undoubted added value that allows municipalities to adapt their policies to the needs and feelings of their inhabitants. The aim of t...

The key factor in moving towards a more sustainable travel model is based on improving mobility, especially in rural areas that share territorial dynamics with urban areas and are connected by a daily flow of inhabitants. The purpose of this article is to carry out a diagnosis of the daily mobility patterns of the inhabitants of a number of rural m...

At a local level, public authorities’ decision making has a significant influence on the development, structure and spatial configuration of the city. For this reason, it is considered essential to combine political positions with urban sustainability criteria, particularly in cities that have been declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The objec...

On several occasions, when the problem of urban transport is addressed, only the supply and demand, number of users, urban design, i.e., aspects that influence the operational functioning of the concession of this public service, are considered. The research proposed in this article aims to examine the situation of public transport stops in the cit...

The search for sustainability has led to the utilization of more ecological materials with at least, a similar structural performance to those used at present. In this regard, reed fits the environmental and structural requirements as it is a sustainable and biodegradable lignin-cellulose material with remarkable mechanical properties. This researc...

In recent years, there has been a considerable increase in the construction of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in rural settings as a result of the obligations set forth in Directive 91/271 and Framework Directive 2000/60, which require an improvement in the quality of wastewater effluent in order to meet certain quality parameters in the disch...

Explicación de la situación actual de la Metodología BIM para una administración

The objective of this study was to examine critically the city of Cáceres's current sustainable urban mobility plan, analysing the measures already implemented by the City Council from the perspective of their functionality, and proposing different approaches to improving traffic and road safety in order to optimize the effectiveness of those measu...

The main objective of this study was to analyse the overall performance of the urban public transport franchise in the city of Cáceres, including its degree of use and the profiles of potential users. A further aim was to ascertain the motives for the journeys and the population's level of accessibility to the service, taking into account the city'...

La Directiva 91/271 sobre el tratamiento de las aguas residuales urbanas de la UE así como la Directiva Marco 2000/60 obligan a la mejora de la calidad del agua residual efluente, dada la necesidad de cumplir determinados parámetros de calidad en el río receptor del vertido. Derivado de la aplicación de dicha normativa europea se está generando la...

The research developed in this paper arises from the need to describe the bending elastic behavior of Hungarian reeds from Fërto Lake with a view to find wider applications of the material in sustainable construction. It is supposed that reeds are particularly efficient in bending because one of the principal loads that the material must carry in p...

The aim of the research developed in this paper is to evaluate the suitability of bundles of reed as structural element in a noise protection barrier system. This investigation describes a preliminary series of tests in which the bending elastic properties of Hungarian bundles of reed are characterized as a line of work in the EU-funded Holiwood pr...