Mobilidade e Transportes Sustentáveis
Code
722171223
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Geografia e Planeamento Regional
Credits
6
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The principal objective of this course is to elaborate and give the students a set of concepts, methods
and techniques that enable the student to analyze the role of the transports and of the mobility of
people and goods in the spatial organization, in the urban form and in the sustainable development of
the urban agglomerations. There will be made the revision of the strategic orientations and of the
national and EU policies about this subject as well as of the methodological orientations for the
sustainable mobility. The best practices in sustainable accessibility and mobility will be emphasized. It is intended to put the student in a position to realize analyses and diagnostics and to propose
measures in order to improve the mobility, the public space, the transport networks and the efficient
and sustainable functioning of the urban tissues.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. Introduction: Mobility, environment and territorial planning
- Concepts: Sustainability, mobility and accessibility
- Short history of urbanism and mobility
- Use of the land and mobility. Urban and functional analysis.
- Increase of the motorization and its consequences in the form and organization of the cities.
2. Externalities
3. Planning of the mobility
- The plans of mobility and transport.
- The transports in the municipal plans of territorial planning.
- Models of articulation between mobility and uses of land.
- Methodologies for the elaboration of strategies of intervention.
4. Management of the mobility and parking
5. The road as a place for socialization and movement
6. Pedestrians
7. Public transports
8. Bicycles
9. Individual transport
Bibliography
- Livro Verde - Por uma nova cultura de mobilidade urbana; Comissão das Comunidades Europeias
COM(2007) 551 final; Bruxelas, 2007
- Manual for Streets; Published by Thomas Telford Publishing for the Department for Transport; UK,
2007
- Modelos Integrados de Uso do Solo-Transportes Perspectivas de Aplicação à Área Metropolitana de
Lisboa; Almeida, Elisabete; Teses de Mestrado LNEC; Lisboa, 1997.
- Projecto Mobilidade Sustentável Volumes 1 e 2; Ed. Agência Portuguesa de Ambiente; Amadora,
2010.
- Reclaiming City Streets for People - Chaos or quality of Life?; European Commission; s.d.
Teaching method
Exposition of the theoretical and practical contents by means of slides projected by the professor.
Discussion in groups about crucial themes. Analysis of case studies. Exercises of application of
techniques and methods in practical lessons. Field studies. Individual works and team
works on special themes.
Evaluation method
The evaluation of knowledge is made out of three components: individual work (30%), written team work
with oral presentation (40%) as well as the students active participation during the lessons and in the
realization of practical exercises (30%).