A&A organizes debate about the vehicles of the future

Together with EUPAVE/European Concrete Paving Association, Alonso & Asociados organised a dinner-debate about the role of transport infrastructure for road safety & automated connected and electric vehicles. European Commission’s Deputy Director General for Mobility & Transport Matthew Baldwin presented the recently published EU Strategy towards cooperative, connected and automated mobility. EUPAVE also presented its position […]

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A&A in the 7th International Taxi Forum in Kölhn

Alonso & Asociados participated in the 7th IRU International Taxi Forum – “Taxi – Anytime, Anywhere 4.0″ and the 3rd IRU International Taxi Business Reception held on 4 and 5 November 2016 in Cologne, Germany. The events were organized by the International Road Transport Union – IRU. The speakers’ presentations are available here. You can […]

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A&A organizes a debate on Public Procurement at the European Parliament

Together with EUPAVE/European Concrete Paving Association, Alonso & Asociados organized on 19 April a lunch-debate on public tendering for roads at the European Parliament, whose host was MEP Ismaïl Ertug. Since 18 April 2016, there are new and applicable EU rules on Public Procurement and Concessions. The debate had presentations from Karl Downey (EUPAVE), Jaroslav […]

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A&A organizes a debate on the upgrading of roads

Together with EUPAVE/European Concrete Paving Association, Alonso & Asociados organized a conference-debate about the need to upgrade roads in Europe. From Cement&BetonCentrum, Wim Kramer presented two concrete-made solutions to achieve that aim. On behalf of the European Commission’s Executive Agency INEA, Cristobal Millan de la Lastra spoke about the EU funding for transport infrastructure projects. […]

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A&A organized a debate on smart roads at the European Parliament

Together with EUPAVE/European Concrete Paving Association, Alonso & Asociados organized a breakfast-debate on smart roads at the European Parliament, whose host was MEP Pablo Arias. The debate had presentations from academia –professors Anne Beeldens (KU Leuven) and Nele De Belie (Ghent University) as well as Keir Fitch (responsible for innovation at the European Commission’s Directorate-General […]

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A&A organized a debate on road safety at the European Parliament

Together with EUPAVE/European Concrete Paving Association, Alonso & Asociados organized a breakfast-debate at the European Parliament about the role of concrete infrastructure to enhance road safety. The host was MEP Brian Simpson, Chair of the European Parliament’s Transport Committee. The debate also had Olivier Onidi, Director of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility & Transport. […]

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A&A organized a debate about transport’s decarbonisation

Alonso & Asociados and EUPAVE/European Concrete Paving Association organized a debate about road transport’s decarbonisation thanks to a wider use of concrete pavements. MEP Philippe de Backer did the welcome speech. Researcher Charlotte Milachowski, from the Centre for Building Materials, Technische Universität München- Germany, delivered a presentation on the life cycle assessment for road construction […]

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A&A organizes a debate about transport infrastructure’s sustainability

Together with EUPAVE/European Concrete Paving Association, Alonso & Asociados organized a dinner-debate about the sustainability of transport infrastructure in the EU. From the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility & Transport, Helmut Morsi had an important speech by explaining the new TEN-T guideline and the Connecting Europe Facility, an EU funding mechanism for infrastructure projects. A […]

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