Manuel Bullejos and Borja Moya, students of ETSECCPB (Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyers de Camins, Canals i Ports de Barcelona) of the UPC, received the XI Abertis Award for Research in infrastructure 'ex aequo' in the modality of thesis and final master work.

Manuel Bullejos González, member of inLab, has been honored for his work entitled 'Ajuste temporal de matrices O/D basado en una aproximación del gradiente', and Borja Moya Gómez by a research entitled 'Procediments heurístics per l’estimació de matrius O/D a partir d’aforaments'. Both directed by Jaume Barceló and Lydia Montero.

This event is one of the preambles to the III International Award of the 'Cátedra Abertis' to be delivered on 9 July in Puerto Rico. The winners of the international edition will emerge from the pooling of the winners of the award delivered on 22 May along with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC) and the awards delivered on 17 June in Paris by Chaire Abertis- École des Ponts ParisTech -IFFSTAR (Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l’Aménagement et des Réseaux), in the categories of thesis and doctoral thesis.