Brazil

Post date: Apr 21, 2018 5:18:29 PM

Title

Smarter Mobility

Abstract

Vehicle crashes kill 1.3 million people each year and injure up to 50 million more.  Crashes are the tenth leading cause of death in the world, and the number one cause of death for young adults.  Almost all (90%) of these road deaths are in low and middle income countries even though they have only half of the world’s cars.  Around the world, the total economic costs expended on transportation, including vehicles, road construction, and the significant adverse economic impacts of traffic congestion are likewise staggering.  On top of this, transportation has serious environmental impacts, as vehicles cause roughly half of air pollution and greenhouse gases, and road construction wreaks immense damage to the natural environment in habitat destruction and dissection.

This problem cannot be overcome using the same ad hoc and trial-and-error methods that have been applied over the last several decades.  Firstly, those methods required decades of concentrated effort, but more importantly, they have not even been successful as the costs of transportation in human lives, economic expenditures, and environmental impacts in Europe and the United States are still intolerably high.

We propose a partnership to co-create with scientists and engineers in Brazil a collaborative and interactive decision support system that will help individual travellers to make smarter (i.e., safer, greener, cheaper) mobility choices.  Think Google Maps enhanced by a personal assistant customised according to your needs and preferences together with the breadth of Wikipedia and the power of advanced tools for stochastic optimisation.  The system can also be used by regional planners to develop policy, make infrastructure development decisions, and craft transportation legislation.

The partnership will enable a multidisciplinary collaboration of engineers and scientists from government, industry and academia in Brazil with their colleagues in the United Kingdom.  The requiste disciplines would likely include psychology, computer science, policy and management, and environmental science.  The proposed partnership is holding its inaugural meetings in Florianópolis and São Paulo in the spring of 2018.  Please express your interest to attend to Andrea Jones info@riskinstitute.uk.  A follow-on meeting is being held at the Unversity of Liverpool's London campus which is accessible from diplomatic missions in the capital.  For further information, please contact Dr Robert Birch (r.s.birch@liverpool.ac.uk), Smarter Mobility, University of Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty.

10 and 12 April 2018, Florianópolis, Brasil,

April 2018,  São Paulo, Brasil

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLNKkwZx6NY [to get English subtitles, turn on Captioning and Autotranslate]

Pictures

Narration

0:11 (narrator’s voice)

More and more traffic queues take over Florianópolis city.

The number of cars grows disproportionately to the road infrastructure.

It is too much car for few roads, and communication is one of the most important points to try to understand the problem.

0:27 (Maikon Costa – City councillor from PSDB political party)

The communication process has been showing a great progress. Nowadays, we communicate quite clearly and fast, and the mobile applications, such as WhatsApp, are proof of this argument. The messages are quite instantaneous.

On the other hand, urban mobility issue seems not to have evolved. It seems to have regressed.

Today is much easier to cross the city by foot than with a motor vehicle, in certain points of  Florianópolis.

For example, during a rush hour, if you walk across the city, you will certainly have more speed than doing it with an individual motor vehicle.

So, these discussions of how we move, how we have this mobility around the city, need to be brought here by the Legislative House [MC1] and provoke the discussion with the Executive Power[MC2] .

Based on that, what is going to be decided here will surely be able to be inspected in the future.

1:18

To discuss the subject, a lecture has been delivered in the Town Hall regarding what the world´s most developed countries are doing about the subject, and what could be applied here in the capital.

A transfer of knowledge to propose smart solutions.

1:33 (Baltazar Andrade Guerra – Political Sciences Doctor)

Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to present here, at Florianopolis Town Hall, this cooperation project and international network research that we want to establish between the University of the South of Santa Catarina and the University of Liverpool, very focused on the practical solution of problems regarding urban mobility, and which basically help in the deployment of more traffic safety and in the promotion of sustainable and smart cities.

Summarising, what we want is that in the next few years, together with the University of Liverpool, to propose strategies for improving urban mobility and creation of more sustainable cities, transferring the knowledge of several countries – especially from the UK to Brazil – but also being able to transfer it back to our partners in the UK, Liverpool,  if successful experiences from Brazil arises. This way, we will be able to deepen the research.

2:33 (Roberto Silva – TV Câmara Reporter)

Urban mobility is a widely discussed issue, here in the Town Hall[MC3] .

Membros da Universidade de Liverpool vieram apresentar um projeto para tentar encontrar soluções para a questão da mobilidade da ilha.

Members of the University of Liverpool had come to present a project to try to find solutions to the island [MC4] mobility.

According to Robert Birch, perhaps a third bridge would not be a solution.

2:49 (Roberto Birch – Universidade de Liverpool, in the reporter's voice)

In his opinion, who has been visiting the city for more than twenty years, the change is perceptible: there are much more traffic and many accidents that were not used to happen before.

We do not have a solution, but a third bridge would bring more roads and more traffic.

We need a global solution. We haven’t come here to present a solution, but a method to find a solution.

 [MC1]Casa Legislativa

 [MC2]Poder executivo: there are 3 “powers” in Brazil: the executive (including the President), the legislative and the judiciary.

 [MC3]Or City Chamber

 [MC4]Florianopolis is a city spread in an island and in the continent (but much more are in the island)