Meeting #33 – Data collection and analysis for road safety

 

This session will take place on 26 April 2022 at room L202 of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic is Data collection and analysis for road safety, presented by João Neves, from Ascendi.

Moderator: António Lobo (FEUP/DEC)

Ascendi has invested in data collection mechanisms and is using those data to improve road safety. In this session, João Neves will present how data is currently being used and its potential to help improve road safety measures and drivers’ behaviours.

[Call for abstracts – deadline extended] CITTA 2022 | 14th Anual Conference on Planning Research – Safe, Equitable and Just Communities

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The CITTA 14th Annual Conference on Planning Research will be held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, on 17 June 2022, under the main topic “Safe, Equitable and Just Communities”. The call is open for contributions focused on (i) understanding the patterns, values, desires, needs, and behaviours associated with different communities and groups of population, (ii) stimulating community-led initiatives and public participation to assist policy- and decision-making and to ensure the success of these processes, (iii) delivering systematic outcome-driven approaches able to encompass and promote social welfare, trust, and fairness in the resolution of spatial planning and transport problems, and/or (iv) deriving policies and actions to bridge the gaps between innovation and societal changes. Conference sessions will be organized in four tracks: 

  1. Planning for social and environmental justice;
  2. Equitable and just urban policies;
  3. Accessible and inclusive transport systems and mobility services;
  4. Safe and efficient transport systems.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 06 May 2022. Full papers (optional) may be submitted by 30 June 2022.
For more information, please visit the conference website: www.fe.up.pt/citta2022. Any inquiries should be sent to citta2022@fe.up.pt. 

Seminar on Green Logistics

Next week we will have a two part seminar on Green Logistics with Professor Javier Faulin. We invite any one interested on this topic, and in Operational Research, to join us. The seminar will be on the 15th november (2pm-4pm) and on the 16th november (11am-1pm), at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (FEUP), in room L202.

The seminar is free, but requires registration (register here).

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Short bio

Dr. Javier Faulin is a Full Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics in the Public University of Navarre-UPNA (Pamplona, Spain). He develops his research activities in Sustainable Transportation and Smart Logistics at the Institute of Smart Cities at the UPNA, being part of his steering committee since 2017. He also collaborates as Instructor-Tutor at the UNED local center in Pamplona.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Business from the University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain), a M.Sc. in Operations Management, Logistics and Transportation from UNED (Madrid, Spain) and a M.Sc. and BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain). He has extended experience in distance and Web-based teaching during the last 20 years in different European universities. Moreover, his teaching has been developed in the following centers: Public University of Navarre (Pamplona, Navarre, Spain), University of Navarre (Pamplona, Navarre, Spain), UNED (Madrid, Spain), the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain), the University of Rennes 1 (Rennes, France), and the University of Surrey (Guilford, Surrey, UK). Similarly, he is involved in assessment activities developed in well-known institutions such as the University College of Dublin (Ireland) or the FWO-Flanders Research Foundation (Belgium).
His research interests include transportation and logistics, vehicle routing problems and simulation modelling and analysis, especially in the practical resolution of logistics and delivery problems of companies. Similarly, he has developed a research line of evaluation of environmental impact of freight transportation and its relationship with vehicle routing problems. In order to model the previous problems, he has collaborated in the development of the simheuristics methodology as a way of imbrication of simulation with optimization (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221471601500007X).
He has published more than 150 papers in international journals, books and proceedings about logistics, routing and simulation. Similarly, he has taught many courses on line about Operations Research (OR) and Decision Making, and he has been the academic advisor of  eight PhD students and more than 60 graduate and master students. Furthermore, he has been the author of more than 200 talks in OR conferences. He is or has been an editorial board member of the journals: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review (TRE), Sustainability (Sustainable Transportation Section), Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR), ORMS Letters (ORMSL), International Journal of Applied Management Science (IJAMS) and International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS).

Meeting #32 – Analog games as tools for planning processes [online]

This 1-hour session will take place online on Thursday, November 17th 2020, from 11a.m. to 12p.m.. Micael Sousa, Ph.D. student of the Spatial Planning from University of Coimbra will share his ongoing research work entitled Analog games as tools for planning processes.

 

Abstract

This research is focused on the potential of game mechanics and dynamics, mostly through analog platforms, as tools for planning processes. Through this approach of serious games, planners can establish new processes, applied to any field of planning, where games can help enhancing participation and collaboration among experts, stakeholders, and citizens. Serious games are ways to engage with participants, providing pleasant simulation experiences while granting planning objectives. Analog games are prone to foster collaboration and are flexible tools to adapt to ongoing planning processes.

Meeting #31 – The role of collaboration for sustainable and efficient urban logistics

This 1-hour session will take place online on Thursday, November 3rd 2020, from 11a.m. to 12 noon. Leandro Carvalho, Ph.D. student of the Transport Systems Doctoral Program from FEUP will share his ongoing research work entitled The role of collaboration for sustainable and efficient urban logistics, in an informal and friendly environment.

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Meeting #30 – Online session with Doctoral students in Transport Systems

This 1-hour session will take place online on November 19th 2020, from 11a.m. to 12 noon. Two Ph.D. students of the Transport Systems Doctoral Program from FEUP will share their ongoing research work, in an informal and friendly environment. The titles and short abstracts for their research works can be found below.

Link to Zoom meeting: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/81371702737?pwd=MHZERHVseUpEemhLUHcvU3UzZzVnZz09

Juliana Carvalho – Policy Roadmaps for Sustainable Urban mobility: a Collaborative Design Framework

Mudassar Shafiq – Optimal Design and Evaluation of more Sustainable and Equitable Public Transport Networks

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Meeting #29 – Beginning of 2020/21 academic year [Networking session]

 

GITMob meeting no. 29

We will begin the academic year of 2020/21 with a networking session. This session will take place online on 10 September 2020 (no registration required). Some Ph.D. students will share an overview of their research work in an informal and friendly environment, where everyone is welcome to participate. This session is an excellent opportunity to meet other researchers in the field of transport and mobility. See you online!

You can participate through this link to the Zoom meeting.

Meeting #3 – Planeamento Operacional de Transportes Públicos: principais conceitos e abordagens [Workshop]

GITMob meeting no. 3

This workshop took place on 13 February 2019 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of this workshop was Planeamento Operacional de Transportes Públicos: principais conceitos e abordagens, conducted in Portuguese, by Dulce Pedrosa, operations director at OPT SA.

 

Abstract

This workshop was an excellent opportunity to learn more about the main concepts and problems related to the operational planning of public transport, with the help of many real examples of Portuguese companies.

Meeting #2 – Visualizing Urban Mobility Data

GITMob meeting no. 2

This session took place on 1 February 2019 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was Visualizing Urban Mobility Data, presented by Thiago Sobral ORCID iD, a Ph.D. student of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems of FEUP.

 

Short Bio

Thiago Sobral is a Ph.D. student of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems of FEUP and Invited Assistant Professor at FEUP. He holds an M.Sc. in Services Engineering and Management from FEUP. He also holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, with a major in Scientific Computing. He has been participating in research projects related to urban mobility and has taught some workshops on Data Visualization. His main research interests are data visualization, semantic web technologies, and ontology modeling.

Meeting #1 – The Future of Smart Sustainable Cities

 

GITMob meeting no. 1

This session took place on 25 January 2019 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was The Future of Smart Sustainable Cities, presented by Sérgio Pedro Duarte, a Ph.D. student of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems of FEUP.

 

Short Bio

Sérgio Pedro Duarte is a Ph.D. candidate of the Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems – MIT Portugal Program, at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP). He has Ms.C. in Civil Engineering and an Ms.C. in Services Engineering and Management, both from FEUP. He has worked as an IT consultant and currently is an invited lecturer at the School of Accounting and Administration of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto – ISCAP. His main research topics include Information Systems, Urban Mobility, and Urban Planning Policy.