The COMSA Railways Award is an initiative that is unique in Spain. GRUPO COMSA gives it to research and study projects in the railway sector as part of the Group’s backing for research into railways.
The COMSA Railway Award is presented every year and since 2004 it has also been open to European engineering faculties. The Award comes with prize money of €3,000 in the Doctoral Thesis category and €1,500 in the Dissertations category, and forms part of the Aula project which COMSA has been carrying out since 2000 in conjunction with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. The goal of the Aula project is to partner activities focussing on research, technology transfer, spreading scientific and technical information and training.
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Some of the projects which have won the COMSA Railway Award since it was founded are as follows:
Methodology and design criteria applied to optimisation of a rigid overhead contact line system for railway use,
by Jennifer Paulín (2007)
Analysis and development of the technological adaptations in infrastructures and vehicles for the implementation of a tram-train system on Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha (FEVE) track
by Margarita Novales Ordax (2006)
Auscultation and track work on the Madrid-Seville High Speed Train line: analysis of the experience and deduction of new maintenance criteria
by Luis Ubalde Claver (2005)
Contribution to cutting maintenance costs on high speed train track by optimising its vertical rigidity,
by Paulo Fonseca Teixeira (2004)
The consequences of railway interoperability in the field of track
by Albert Bové Chic (2003)
Maximum ramps on high speed lines
by Adriana Bachiller Saña (2002)
R&D&I in the railway sector in Catalonia. Approach to a White Book,
by Jennifer Ruiz(2007)
Interaction entre les longs rails soudés et les ouvrages d´art,
by Jonatan Calafí Guasch (2006)