Dr. Thais Rangel completed her PhD in Transport Economics and Financing from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 2011. Additionally, she holds a MSc Degree in Data Science from KSchool – Madrid (2016). From 2015 to 2016 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS – Joint Research Centre – European Commission), where she collaborated on a project about road safety.

She is currently working as an associate professor (Contratado Doctor) in the Department of Organization Engineering, Business Administration and Statistics at UPM. From 2008 to the present, her research work is developed within the Transportation Research Centre TRANSyT-UPM.

Her research works focus on ride-hailing fares, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and road safety. During her experience as a junior researcher (2008-2011) in TRANSyT-UPM, she did her doctoral dissertation about the effectiveness of road safety incentives in PPPs.

She participates in national and international research projects. At the international level, she has participated in 3 research projects from Horizon 2020, CEF and the European Investment Bank (Novel Decision Support Tool for Evaluating Strategic Big Data Investments in Transport and Intelligent Mobility Services – NOESIS; C-Roads Spain and EIBURS Programme on PPPs). At the national level, she has been involved in 7 projects, 2 of which are currently under development: MOBISHARING (Evaluación del impacto y el potencial de la economía colaborativa para lograr una movilidad sostenible e integrada empleando técnicas de big data) from the Plan Nacional and Co-Mov (Caracterización de las nuevas formas de movilidad urbana colaborativa a través del procesado de fuentes de datos: diseño de medidas para que contribuyan a una movilidad conectada y eficiente).

The results of her research activity have been disseminated through the publication of scientific articles in prestigious journals (Transportation, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Transport Policy, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, etc.). She has published 9 JCR articles, of which 7 are in Q1, has more than 80 citations in JCR and 170 in Google scholar with an H-index of 4. These publications cover three lines of works: the most recent one on ride-hailing fares; the line on the impact that real-time information has on drivers’ route choice and the line on PPPs. Outside the JCR, she has published 2 articles, 2 book chapters, 1 book and she has presented 14 papers at international transportation congresses such as TRB2021, TRB2019, TRB2013, TRB2011 and also at the national level such as Congreso Ingeniería del Transporte (CIT). She also took an international abroad fellowship at the University of Central Lancashire (Preston-UK) in October 2011.