MOOC – Engineering fundamentals for Urban Mobility. Massive Online Open Course. Innovation teaching project. Available at https://mooc.upc.edu. In 2025 we created a short online course to help prospective students to the Master in Urban Mobilityto prepare for the mandatory courses in their first year. This course was specially addressed to those students without an engineering background who were admitted in the master. The course comes with a related textbook:
Soriguera, F., E. Codina, M. R. Estela, M. Estrada, M. Fernández and L. Montero. (2026). Engineering fundamentals for urban mobility. Iniciativa Digital Politècnica. Oficina de Publicacions Acadèmiques Digitals de la UPC. ISBN: 979-13-88098-46-8. ISBN digital: 979-13-88098-47-5. DL: B 10948-2026. DOI: 10.5821/ebook-9791388098475.
Textbook – Transportation Operations and Traffic. The textbook is designed to complement lectures and to address potential difficulties in following the complex explanations using only the students’ notes. The book addresses the need for students to have foundational materials that reinforce the lectures in class. It aim to prevent students from feeling “lost or overwhelmed” by external materials that are either too in-depth or lack detail. The book includes all the figures and diagrams that the professor draws manually on the board. This significantly facilitates note-taking, allowing students to focus on the conceptual explanation rather than the exact copying of complex graphics. The textbook is available for download here: OPS_Book.
Mini-Projects webpage. Since 2021, we are constructing a webpage for the mini-projects in the course “Operation & management of transport systems“. The webpage can be accessed here: https://omtsprojects.wordpress.com/. The proposed project aims to promote the dissemination of the students’ work within the course projects.
Urban Mobility Innovations depository. Since 2025, within the course “Urban Mobility” in the Master of Civil Engineering (UPC – BarcelonaTech) we incorporate a debate forum dealing with potential urban mobility innovations for the city of Barcelona. A depository of the proposed innovations is available online.
Platoon Demonstration App. The app consists in the representation of a one-directional freeway stretch (500m long) with two lanes. One lane is for CAVs platoons only (dedicated lane) and the other for regular vehicles (human driven). https://upc-platoon.herokuapp.com/. We developed this App during 2022 within the PLATOON project.
Traffic Data Visualization App. This tool computes traffic data aggregations in two different ways: i. According to Edie’s generalized definitions and following the procedures described in Cassidy & Coifman (2007); ii. According to the common biased procedure typically used in Traffic Management Centers (TMC). https://upc-traffic-data.herokuapp.com/.We developed this App during 2022 within the PLATOON project.
Freeway capacity drop demonstration with the rice experiment. Could freeway access control increase capacity? Rice and cars… what they have in common? Look at the rice experiment to illustrate the “capacity drop” phenomenon in traffic and the effects of control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS3fdpLOD3A. Recorded in class during 2020.
Traffic shockwaves in a trajectories diagram. This simulation represents a traffic stream in a map of trajectories on the time-space plane and illustrates the concept of shock-waves and their role in the prediction of the queue propagation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn3HMAaEfcQ.We developed this recording during 2020 within the COOP project.
Francesc Soriguera website 