Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2020.
Time: 09:00 – 10:30 am (CST, time in Costa Rica)
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Agenda
Introduction. Carolina Chantrill. Coordinator of the LEDS LAC Transport Working Group and Pedro Scarpinelli. Coordinator of the LEDS LAC Electric Mobility Community of Practice, Sustentar Association.
Affordable transportation services for all in COVID-19 (and post COVID-19) times. María Eugenia Rivas. Transport Economist, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). | Download presentation
Challenges of public policy for mobility in the face of health emergencies. Álvaro Guzmán. Consultant, Cercana. | Download presentation
Layers of urban mobility. Juan Palacio. Country Manager for Latin America, Moovit. | Download presentation
About the webinar
In the face of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, the transport sector faces new challenges in ensuring basic essential services and a safe way to travel. In this context, this webinar aims to analyze the impact of the health emergency on public transport and urban mobility, as a trigger for the identification of future challenges and opportunities for low emission mobility.
The webinar aims to be a space for dialogue in which, from three different and complementary perspectives, the effects of COVID-19 on public transport and urban mobility are analyzed and their implications for the future are reflected upon. To this end, the situation will be analyzed from the economic approach to transport, the conception and development of public urban mobility policies and from the private technology and transport sector as a driving force for innovation.
Finally, there will be a space for exchange with participants to reflect on the impacts, challenges and potential opportunities after the pandemic to develop clean, sustainable and safe urban mobility. The webinar will be held in Spanish. If you have any questions, please contact the LEDS LAC Platform at info@ledslac.org.
About the panelists
Economist and consultant for the IDB’s Infrastructure and Energy Sector, where she is part of the knowledge team. Her main areas of interest include urban transport and the development of sustainable, efficient and inclusive mobility solutions. Prior to joining the IDB, she worked in the transport sector doing consulting for the public and private sector, as well as for international organizations in the areas of socio-economic assessment, planning and regulation of transportation. María Eugenia is an economist from ORT University (Uruguay) and has a master’s degree in Transport Economics from the University of Leeds (England).He has a PhD in Transport from the University of Leeds and an MSc in sustainable transport from the same university. He has worked in almost all areas of transport from the manufacture of buses of all types to the planning of national mobility policies. His main interest is to understand the inequities that traditional transport planning generates in society and to make proposals for alternatives to correct them. Since 2017, he has served as Undersecretary of Land and Railway Transportation in the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works of Ecuador and last year he was in charge of the National Transit Agency. He currently works as a leading consultant for sustainable transport at Cercana S.A.Latin American Country Manager for Moovit, a leading provider of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and the #1 urban mobility application in the world. With extensive experience in the areas of transport, logistics and IT in various organizations, studied Industrial Engineering at the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA), then graduated in Management and Governance of Information Technology Services in the same institution. He participates as a speaker in panels of events and forums on mobility, transport and smart cities in Latin America.