La Electromovilidad en el Transporte Público

José Manuel Barrios is currently Head of Digital Business at IDIADA Automotive Technology SA, which belongs to the Applus Corporation and is considered a reference in automotive engineering worldwide. With its Headquarters and Technical Center located in l’Albornar, Spain, IDIADA employs over 2,500 people in 25 different countries and is continuously growing. Mr. Barrios was born in 1975 in Barcelona, where he graduated with a Master’s degree from the Technical University of Engineering UPC and since then has collaborated as a professor in various post-graduate and Master courses at the same university in the fields of Technological Innovation, Electric Vehicles and Integrated Safety. He executed a Post-Master degree in “Materials” at the Lulea Technical University LTU. He began his career at IDIADA in 1999 as Coordinator of the Accident Research Team in the Passive Safety department and in 2009 took over as the Head of the Innovation team. Since then he has managed opportunities, proposals and execution of projects in the latest EC Work Programs and in addition has presented technical papers based on R&D projects in the main international conferences and congresses.

In 2020, Mr. Barrios was appointed as Head of Digital Business, defining, designing and developing new digital solutions to give value to data generated (testing, homologation and engineering) transforming it into information, knowledge and business. Mr. Barrios represents IDIADA in National and European Research Platforms and Associations: Member of the European Automotive Researchers Partners Association EARPA Executive Board, Representative of the European Green Vehicle Initiative Association EGVIA, Member of several working groups in the European Enhanced Vehicle-safety Committee EEVC, Chairman of the eMobility Working Group in Catalan Industrial Automotive Cluster CIAC,  Participant in the Working Groups in the Spanish Department of Transport DGT, Member of the Barcelona Board for Connected and Automated Driving (Barcelona City Council), as well as Member of the Industrial Forum for the Connected Vehicle, Cooperative Systems and Automated Driving (Government of Catalonia).

He has also been appointed as Vice President Members & Local Committees in the Spanish Society of Automotive Engineers (STA) working to increase the number of the affiliates, defining and setting up programs to improve the value of the services and activities of the Association, as well as establishing links and relationships between the different STA delegations. Finally, Mr. Barrios is Vice President Society Committee in the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Ingénieurs des Techniques de l’Automobile  (FISITA). FISITA includes 35 member societies and represents 200.000 engineers worldwide.

PhD Angel López Rodríguez currently serves as Director of Barcelona’s Electric Vehicle Program and Executive Director of the LIVE Platform, a public-private partnership that aims at promoting sustainable urban mobility in Barcelona. Prior to this, Mr. López served as Director for Mobility and Infrastructure at Barcelona City Council.

In the past, he worked in major projects for the city councils of Madrid and Barcelona, the Catalonian regional government, the Spanish Directorate of Traffic (DGT) and the Spanish Ministry of Public Works, and had management responsibilities in private high-tech companies.

His areas of expertise include traffic & parking management, road safety, public transport systems and electro-mobility strategy implementation. He holds a MSc and a PhD in civil engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

El Dr. Ingeniero Angel López Rodríguez se desempeña actualmente como Director del Programa de Vehículos Eléctricos de Barcelona y Director Ejecutivo de la Plataforma LIVE, una asociación público-privada que tiene como objetivo promover la movilidad urbana sostenible en Barcelona. Anteriormente, López se desempeñó como Director de Movilidad del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona.

En el pasado, trabajó en grandes proyectos para los ayuntamientos de Madrid y Barcelona, la Generalitat de Catalunya, la Dirección de Tráfico de España (DGT) y el Ministerio de Fomento de España, y tuvo responsabilidades de gestión en empresas privadas de alta tecnología.

Sus áreas de especialización incluyen la gestión del tráfico y el estacionamiento, la seguridad vial, los sistemas de transporte público y la implementación de estrategias de electromovilidad. Tiene un máster y un doctorado en ingeniería civil por la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.