THE URBAN TRANSPORT POLICY AS A TOOL TO REDUCE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF URBAN LIFE IN LATIN AMERICA. 

Within the framework of the new sustainable development agendas, cities are recognized as potential drivers of economic and social development, in addition to being places of inclusion, resilience and sustainability. This recognition, in accordance with the objectives present in the global agenda and policy discourse, contrasts sharply with the traditional urban planning and transport schemes, which have as a priority the principles of efficiency and economic optimization, which often leave sideways to the social and distributive dimension of urban mobility. This event, structured in two presentations, approaches these contradictions and integrates them into a transport policy proposal with a social focus, which frames the role of urban mobility as an enabling agent for urban transformations in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Latin America. The event explores the conceptual bases and central debates on accessibility, inclusion and social equity, associated with urban mobility, presenting a critical reflection on the biases and limitations of traditional approaches to transportation planning, and exposing the challenges and opportunities associated with understanding urban mobility as a redistributive instrument that can reduce inequalities. Likewise, a review of the existing literature on the region is made, from the perspective of social impacts of transport, recording a compendium of experiences and cases in Latin America that can serve as a benchmark of progressive urban transport concepts, methods and policies. By incorporating a multidisciplinary vision and providing empirical evidence around the challenges of using transportation as an instrument of  social equity, we reflect on the role of urban mobility in development agendas such as the SDGs and in the practices and considerations that should be considered to use transport planning and policies as vehicles to build fairer, more sustainable and inclusive societies.

Luis A. Guzman is an Associated Professor at the School of Engineering at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). He holds an M.Sc from the Universidad de los Andes, and a Ph.D. cum laude in Systems of Civil Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Currently he is the director of the Urban and Regional Sustainability Group (SUR) at the Universidad de los Andes. Dr. Guzman research interests include urban mobility, transport and land-use interaction and social, economic and spatial analysis of inequalities related to urban transport and policy evaluation in Latin America. Dr. Guzman is a committee member of the Social and Economic Factors of Transportation for The Transportation Research Board. He is currently a researcher of national studies including the development models and tools regarding land occupation and land-use changes and its implications on mobility, transport planning, social equity and urban sustainability. He is also consultant and adviser in different urban transport projects in Colombia. Consultant to the World Bank, adviser the Urban Development Institute of Bogotá on issues of value capture instruments for financing transport infrastructure. Adviser of the Bogotá Urban Planning Office in the reform of the Land-Use Planning Master Plan, in transport planning. Author of several articles published in international journals related to the evaluation of transport policies, poverty, equity and urban structure.

02/07/2020

14-16 horas