Jacobo Díaz Pineda, reelected president of the European Federation of Roads
20 June 2013
The European Federation of Roads groups to the agents of the road sector that operate in the European field and his aim is to promote the development of some infrastructures of safe roads, of quality and sustainable in the Old Continent.
The vote, that took place in Brussels in the frame of the meeting plenaria of the Assembly of the ERF, has supposed also the election of Rik Nuyttens (3M) and Jean-Claude Roffé (Tails) like vice-presidents of the entity.
Díaz Pineda has directed a good number of investigations and studies. Between the most recent fits to stand out by his international scope his paper like adviser in the development of the Plan of hygiene Vial for Latin America and Caribbean elaborated by the Inter-American Bank of Development (Bid) and the AEC. To beginnings of year, this project was awarded by the International Federation of Roads (International Road Federation - IRF) with his more important prize, the Global Road Achievement Award.
The president of the ERF also has coordinated numerous projects on the environingingmental implications of the road, like the Observatory of Environingingmental Best practices in Conservation of Roads or the Maps of Interpretation of the Environingingment through the Network of Roads, known like Mimar.
With this bagaje, and from his responsibility at the head of the ERF, the hygiene vial, the environingingmental sustainability, the financial feasibility of the projects of roads and the standards of quality of the infrastructures will be paramount points in the diary of the organism, whose fundamental strategic line goes through to promote the internationalisation of the companies of the sector in the surroundings of Europe and America.
The European Federation of Roads (ERF) is a no governmental organisation that acts like platform for the dialogue, grouping to the road agents that operate in the European field. In the actuality, is integrated in the organisational structure of the International Federation of Roads (IRF), acting like his representative in the Old Continent.
To achieve his aims, the ERF works in narrow contact with public servicys, so much community as of the distinct countries members of the European Union, and with the private companies of the sector of the road transport.
In addition to member founder of the ERF, the Spanish Association of the Road is partner of the IRF from 1950.
