Bertha Maria Batista dos Santos

Bertha Santos has a PhD in Civil Engineering and has joined the University of Beira Interior (UBI) in 1998. Since 2008 she is an Assistant Professor of Transport Infrastructure Engineering at the UBI Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

Interesses de investigação | Research Interests:

Bertha Santos research interests include road and airport pavement management systems (PMS); statistical data analysis and modelling in transport engineering and road safety; road user costs; soft mobility and applications of GIS in transportation. Research work also include applications of GIS in architectural heritage safeguarding.

• B. Santos, J. Gonçalves, A. M. Martins, M. T. Pérez-Cano, E. Mosquera-Adell, D. Dimelli, A. Lagarias and P. G. Almeida (2021) GIS in architectural teaching and research: planning and heritage. Education Sciences, Volume 11(6), 307; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11060307.
• B. Santos, V. Trindade, C. Polónia and L. Picado-Santos (2021) Detecting risk factors of road work zone crashes from the Information provided in police crash reports: The case study of Portugal. Safety, Volume 7(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety7010012.
• B. Santos, P. G. Almeida, I. Feitosa and D. Lima (2020) Validation of an indirect data collection method to assess airport pavement condition. Case Stud. Constr. Mater., Volume 13, e00419; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cscm.2020.e00419.
• B. Santos, L. Picado-Santos and V. Cavaleiro (2014) Refinement of a simplified road user cost model. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Transport, Volume 167(6); https://doi.org/10.1680/tran.12.00057.