Carmen RODRIGUEZ

Carmen has 18 years of experience in urban mobility planning. Throughout her career, she has specialized in traffic surveys, traffic modeling, and the economic and financial analysis of public transport systems. She holds an engineering degree from the Polytechnic School of Engineering in Cordoba (Spain) and a master’s degree in economic modeling and statistical tools from Montpellier (France). Carmen joined the SYSTRA Group in 2011 and regularly serves as a project manager or planning expert, working primarily in France, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Notably, she contributed to the development of a multimodal traffic model to estimate the regional carbon footprint of transport in Région Sud (PACA, France), and she has played key roles in the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans for Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), the Master Plan for Monterrey (Mexico), and the metro extension project in Baku (Azerbaijan). Her expertise encompasses all modes of transport and covers both urban and interurban contexts. With regard to cable-propelled transit, Carmen has worked on gondola system feasibility studies in cities such as Guayaquil (Ecuador), Guatemala City and Villanueva (Guatemala), Manila (Philippines), and Bogotá (Colombia). She also participated in the ex-post audit of the Guayaquil gondola cable system and was involved in the CODATU working group that published “Recommendations for the Success of Cable Transport Projects in Cities of the South.”