The objective is to submit to the public authorities within the next four years a new motorway model whose key features will be enhanced security, intelligence, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency.
To achieve this, an ambitious budget of €38 million has been allocated.
The major groups participating in the project include SICE, the ACS and OHL groups’ building
and concessionaire companies and the infrastructures group Abertis.
The project, which has been dubbed “OASIS” (Operation of Safe, Intelligent, Sustainable
Motorways), is backed by the Spanish government and has been selected by the Industrial and
Technological Development Centre (CDTI) as one of the programmes for its Cenit project, which has
€172 million in subsidies available to finance 14 projects.
A key factor in the development of OASIS will be setting up new motorway quality and service
indicators, by taking new components into account, including the capacity to generate alternative
energy from traffic flow, soundproofing and reducing pollution levels.
Other developments have been achieved, although they are still pending standardisation, such
as removing the need for physical tollbooths by installing traffic-control gantries — best known as
“free-flow” — a system of which SICE has considerable experience.
