Brazil

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

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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

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