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Tecnalia and Caf are looking for an efficient, safe and reliable public transport
25/03/2009
March 25, 2009
tecnalia Corporación Tecnológica is developing the project Cenit Ecotrans, led by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Caf) and subsidized by the Centre for the Industrial technological development (CDTI), whose purpose is the search for new technologies and concepts for the public transport of the future.
The project, with a duration of 4 years, focuses on the research of new technologies and concepts of the future urban transport in such a way that these include the most popular aspects currently by users: sustainability, safety and reliabilitywhat it concrete in greater acceptance and social use of public transport systems.
The role of Tecnalia and Caf in the project will focus on the new propulsion systems and storage of energy, mainly through the use of new generation batteries to allow the functioning of the means of transport to specific circumstances. Also be the simulation of environments of operation of new vehicles.
