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INTERVW IE Moacyr Duarte, chairman of the Brazilian Association of Road Concession Holders P. 16 REPORT abertis is to manage three toll roads in Chile P. 26 sanef and abertis enter Dalí’s universe P. 58 JANUARY 2013 NO. 07 - SECOND PERIOD abertis: world leader in toll roads EDITORIAL Sensitivity and intelligence Reading the article on Smart Cities tries in the areas of toll roads – with sanef published in these pages by the Italian in France in 2006 and with Brazil in 2012 as AFTER THE architect and engineer Carlo Ratti has made essential references −, airports and telecom- AGREEMENT TO me think about the inseparable relationship munications, and these were the result of between sensitivity and intelligence. With The anticipation; of sensitivity concerning the INTEGRATE THE sensitive city, Ratti suggests to us that the urgent need for change and the requirements OHL CONCESSIONS intelligence of a city – its efficiency in manag- for preparing a company for the future. This IN BRAZIL AND ing all its processes based on information has created a company capable of making CHILE, WE CAN technologies, from the traceability of waste its growth sustainable, diversifying its geo- NOW SAY THAT to the management of mobility – depends on graphical risk and, therefore, giving it the ABERTIS IS THE the city having “senses”, or being sensitive. He strength to overcome the different phases is referring to a physical concept. The city, he of the economic cycle, which are normally BIGGEST TOll states, must be covered with sensors so that asymmetrical, so that one country or eco- ROAD OPERATOR the information they transmit allows intelli- nomic region provides compensation and IN THE WORLD gent, reasoned decisions to be adopted. rebalances the upward or downward phase In a way, then, intelligence presupposes of another country or region. the sensitivity of knowing how to appreci- We are working, then, to maintain the ate and interpret – to anticipate – the con- Group’s strength and growth potential. It is text we operate in. And this is valid both for based on this strength that we are not distant organisations and for people. We cannot from the context or the economic situation settle for a judgment about what has to be we are going through. It affects us too and, done and how without first having diag- with this perspective of medium- and long- nosed what is happening to us, or without term consolidation and competitiveness, we having sensitivity – the capacity to sense have also made decisions involving adapta- and interpret the signals we receive in order tion and a dose of sacrifice, which we have to allow us to establish this diagnosis. no need to hide. I like to think that at abertis we have We are ending a 2012 packed with deci- been capable of providing ourselves with this sions anticipating the future of a transformed, sensitivity; this sense of anticipation on which more global abertis. These decisions make some of the key decisions made over the last us more competitive and also more efficient. few years have been based, culminating in They bring us size and, therefore, lungs and the reality of a group which, now the agree- space to grow. Many talk to us about capac- SALVADOR ment to integrate the OHL concessions in ity to interpret the context and anticipate; ALEMANY Brazil and Chile has been concluded, we can about capacity to be ready and react in time. PRESIDENT OF ABERTIS now say is the biggest toll road operator in The abertis of the end of 2012 is more solid. the world. It is more international. It has committed Let’s think for a minute what our Group’s shareholders, strengthened, after the Brazil- position would be in the current economic ian operation, with the incorporation of the context if we had not driven forward the proc- OHL Group as a Group shareholder. ess of internationalising our activity at the It is an abertis that continues to work beginning of 2000, and, more strongly, since for the future. A global company more com- 2003. From having 98% of income generated plex to manage because of the different in Spain in 2000, we have moved to the 40% nature and situations of the markets and we are forecasting for 2013. abertis has been countries where we operate, but also with definitively transformed into an international more opportunities to grow and develop our company with a global reach. This is a chal- aptitudes and attitudes as professionals, as lenge and, at the same time, an opportunity. people and as responsible citizens, aware of That boost and strategic decision has and sensitive to the difficult context in which taken the form of operations in other coun- we must act and make decisions. n JANUARY 2013 n LINK abertis n 3 22 NO. 07 SUMMARY 16 08 REPORT abertis, new world leader in toll roads Tunnels 48 26 44 54 16 38 abertis to manage INTERVIEW REPORT Vallvidrera and el Cadí link abertis Moacyr Duarte Infrastructure Finance Carpooling 49 “The concessions in Brazil Summit 2012 More than 10,000 users link abertis is a publication from 58 Abertis Infraestructuras, SA are consolidated” Debate on the sector abertis foundation Av. del Parc Logístic, 12-20. 50 08040 Barcelona. abertis holds its 4th Tel.: 93 230 50 00. Fax: 93 230 50 02. 06 22 40 Volunteering Day EDITED AND CooRDINATED BY: abertis Corporate Communication Department. OPINION REPORT REPORT Road education 52 EDITORIAL BOARD: Salvador Alemany, Carlo Ratti Department of Internal Telecommunications Francisco Reynés, José Aljaro, Josep Maria New action in Coronas, Toni Brunet, Juan María Hernández The sensitive city Resources and Efficiency The towers celebrate secondary schools Puértolas, Sergi Loughney and Joan Rafel. A multidisciplinary, competitive a birthday CoRPORATE IMAGE AND PRODUCTION: and innovative team Castellet 54 Erik Ribé and Bernat Ruiz. CoNTENT CooRDINATION: 12 Candidate to be Centre Alícia Cobeña. REPORT 42 for Mediterranean EDITORIAL: Alícia Cobeña, Gemma Gazulla, Internationalisation 26 REPORT Biosphere Reserves Marc Gómez and Leticia Gonzálvez. Christine Allard, Carolina Brazil opens its doors REPORT Infrastructures CoNTRIBUTORS: 1st abertis Bergantiños, Bob Bullock, Julio Cerezo, Joan to the private sector Latin America A commitment Fontanals, Enric Pérez, Mercedes Pérez-Cruz, Roser research award 56 Investor’s link abertis, biggest toll road to the city of the future Prenafeta, Marc Ribó, Albert Rossell, Bernat Ruiz, Using mathematics to abertis, abertis autopistas, abertis telecom, operator in Chile abertis airports and abertis foundation. predict traffic 14 PRODUCTION: REPORT 44 Dalí 58 Ediciones Reunidas, SA (Grupo Zeta). Revistas Corporativas Barcelona. International presence NEWS abertis sponsors an 30 68 Consell de Cent, 425. 08009 Barcelona. TRAVEL Tel.: 93 227 94 16. The role of infrastructures Hispasat 44 exhibition about the RESULTS in a global world Catalan painter in France Manager: Òscar Voltas. Editorial coordinator: Valparaíso Two new satellites January-September 2012 Nuria González. Chief reporter: Toni Sarrià. The ocean’s bride sanef 46 Results looking up Editorial: Gemma Figueras and Toni Capilla. Purchase of the leading toll Layout: Cristina Vilaplana and Xavier Julià. 15 61 Sub-editing: Ares Rubio. systems company in Europe Legal deposit: B-16432-2010. REPORT BRIEFS 34 72 abertis shareholder service line: 902 30 10 15. Economy Night REPORT Eco-pôle 47 abertis news ANNIVERSARY www.abertis.com abertis accepts no responsibility for the opinion abertis receives an award for metropistas sanef’s future Other news abertis celebrates 25 years of its contributors in the work published, nor does the best operation of the year First year of history green building headlines in brief on the stock market it necessarily identify with their opinions. 1 n LINK abertis n JANUARY 2013 JANUARY 2013 n LINK abertis n 2 OPINION The sensitive city Networks, sensors and design are redefining our cities. The BY CARLO spaces where we live are going to be greener, more social and RATTI more connected. In a word, they will be smarter. Architect and engineer he practices in Italy It seemed as if the Internet was might say that the Internet is invading the must act. “What must we do?” is one of the at works at MIT, where he runs the SENSEable going to annihilate cities but, physical space, a phenomenon often known questions we hear repeated time after time City Lab. instead, it is saving them. In the mid-90s, by the name Smart City.. This development by the mayors of Asian, European and Amer- due to the Internet explosion promoted has also turned other situations on their ican cities. There are different possible He has worked for by the first internauts, many people spoke heads, and we are now seeing the beginning approaches. The first of them fascinates the more than 200 of the Death of Distance, taking the title of a hybrid dimension between the digital big multinationals, many of which are publications, including of the book by Frances Cairncross. The and the material world, transforming the strongly entering the Smart City. field. From The New York Times, Scientific American, explosion of networks heralded the sup- way we live. Let’s take Formula 1 races, for Cisco to Ibm and Siemens, many of them La Stampa and the pression of distances in the physical world. example: 20 years ago, in order to win you are offering solutions to make services like magazine Domus. The idea was such as strong one that the needed a good engine and a good driver, but transport and waste collection more effi- American writer George Gilder went as far now what is required is a telemetry system cient. It is an interesting approach, although His work has been as to say that, with people having every- based on compiling data from thousands sometimes too technical and designed from exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Museum thing at their fingertips, cities would disap- of sensors fitted on the car and processing outside.