Ford Urban Mobility Networks Providing Solutions to Social and Environmental Problems in Urban Slums
Barber, Luke; Wilson, Alexandra; Plews, Emily; Olson, Elin; McLaughlin, Jennifer; Liu, Tingting
2009-04
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Abstract
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL: Building upon the work of a series of previous SNRE master’s projects, our team has identified New Mobility as a potential set of solutions to many of the social and environmental problems related to mobility and accessibility within urban slums of São Paulo, Brazil. New Mobility systems are highly integrated, environmentally sound, and socially equitable systems of moving people and goods. Implementing such systems as a solution to urbanization mega-trends is an innovative concept in that previous solutions to addressing slums (i.e., slum-upgrading) did not comprehensively consider mobility, and solutions to transportation problems (i.e., mass transit, hub networks, etc) either completely ignored or minimally considered slum residents. Insights garnered from this new perspective on New Mobility in slums were then applied to recommendations to the Ford Motor Company on potential paths to co-creating an equitable, efficient, and profitable system of transportation in São Paulo. This research argues heavily for the importance of partnerships outside traditional transportation agencies and offers new ways of looking at typical business relationships.Other Identifiers
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