Gabriel Valença

PhD Student

Gabriel Valença is a PhD candidate in Transportation Systems in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. His main research areas are in integrating concepts related to urban planning, smart cities, urban mobility and intelligent transportation systems focusing in traveler behavior, transport demand modelling and network performance. He has graduated in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, while, studying part of his degree at the University of Toronto, Canada. During his time in Toronto he worked at the City of Toronto, Cycling Infrastructure and Projects Department, Transportation Services Division. He participated as a Research Assistant at the Transportation Research Group (NETNatal) located in UFRN from 2015 to 2017, focusing in transport policies for urban transport management in Brazil. He also has experience in the fields of housing construction and construction of sewage treatment systems.

Projects I'm involved in

Streets4All

DARE – Dynamic Allocation of Road Space in the Urban Built Environment

Publications

Journals

Gabriel Valença, Filipe Moura, Ana Morais de Sá. Exploring criteria for reallocating road space dynamically: lessons from a workshop with experts. Journal of Urban Design, August 2023.
Gabriel Valença, Filipe Moura, Ana Morais de Sá. How can we develop road space allocation solutions for smart cities using emerging information technologies? A review using text mining. International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 3(1):100150, April 2023.
Filipe Moura, Gabriel Valença, Rosa Félix, David Vale. The impact of public bike-sharing systems on mobility patterns: Generating or replacing trips?. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, January 2023.
Gabriel Valença, Filipe Moura, Ana Morais de Sá. Main challenges and opportunities to dynamic road space allocation: From static to dynamic urban designs. Journal of Urban Mobility, 1:100008, December 2021.
Gabriel Valença and Enilson Santos. A relação entre o conceito de ruascompletas e a Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana: aplicação a um projeto viário em Natal-RN, Brasil. Revista EURE – Revista de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 46(139):73-89, September 2020.
Gabriel Valença and Enilson Santos. O conceito de ruas completas e a infraestrutura cicloviária: a experiência de Toronto, Canadá. Espacios, 39(8):26-33, January 2018.

Conferences (with procedia)

Rosa Félix, Gabriel Valença, and Filipe Moura. O impacte de incentivos públicos à aquisição de bicicletas elétricas na adoção do modo ciclável – o caso de Lisboa. 10º Congresso Rodoferroviário Português, Lisboa, July 2022.
Gabriel Valença, Gabriel Stumpf, Cláudia Soares, Filipe Moura. Screening walkability violations through self-reported claims by smartphone detection: The case of Lisbon, Portugal. 24th EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting, Aveiro, Portugal, September 2021. Transportation Research Procedia 62 (2022) 648–655.
Gabriel Valença and Enilson Santos. O conceito de ruas completas: aplicação a um projeto viário em Natal-RN, Brasil, considerando a Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana. CLATPU: Actas del XX Congreso Latinoamericano de Transporte Público y Urbano, Medellín, Colômbia, 604-614, July 2018.
Enilson Santos and Gabriel Valença. Reflexões acerca da aplicação da lei da Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana e da elaboração de planos locais de mobilidade urbana no Brasil. CLATPU: Actas del XIX Congreso Latinoamericano de Transporte Público y Urbano, Montevidéu, Uruguai, November 2016.
Gabriel Valença and Enilson Santos. A infraestrutura cicloviária e o conceito de ruas completas: lições da experiência de Toronto, Canadá. Pluris: Anais do 7º Congresso Luso Brasileiro para o Planejamento Urbano, Regional, Integrado e Sustentável, Maceió, AL, Brasil, 12, October 2016.

PhD Thesis

Gabriel Valença. Dynamic Allocation of Road Space in the Urban Built Environment. Supervisor: Filipe Moura (IST), Co-Supervisor: Ana Morais de Sá (IST).
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