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Gregório Luz
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Gregório Luz

PhD Student, City and Regional Planning
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gregorio_luz@berkeley.edu
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gregorio_luz@berkeley.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS

Transportation policy, transportation equity, global south

EDUCATION
M in Public Administration and Government, Getulio Vargas Foundation, 2024 (incomplete)
MSc in Transportation Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2021
BSc in Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2017

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

"There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge." –Alexandra Elbakyan

BIOGRAPHY

I am currently a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, I served as the Transport Planning Director at the Belo Horizonte Urban Mobility Superintendence and worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea). My career also includes a role as an Urban Mobility Researcher at the Center for Politics and Economics in the Public Sector Studies of Getulio Vargas Foundation (CEPESP-FGV), where I contributed to projects funded by the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), United Kingdom Prosperity Fund, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC), and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

Additionally, I was involved in research at the Center of Studies in Infrastructure Regulation (CERI) of Getulio Vargas Foundation (CERI-FGV) on projects funded by the United Kingdom Prosperity Fund and the Brazilian Federal District Government. I also served as an advisor to the Under-Secretary of Transports of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

In 2023, I was honored with the Master's Thesis Award in Transportation Geography by the American Association of Geographers. I hold a Master's degree in Transportation Engineering (Cities and Mobilities) and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Transportation Engineering, both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PET-COPPE/UFRJ).

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

DCRP Perloff Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2024
Berkeley Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2024
Master's Thesis Award in Transportation Geography, American Association of Geographers, 2023
Master's Scholarship, Getulio Vargas Foundation, 2021
Master's Scholarship, Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement (CAPES), 2020
Semi Finalist of the XXXVI Journey Giulio Massarani of Scientific Initiation, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2014
Undergraduate Research Fellow, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), 2014

Publications

Luz, G., Barboza, M. H. C., Portugal, L., Giannotti, M., & van Wee, B. (2022). Does better accessibility help to reduce social exclusion? Evidence from the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice,166, 186–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.10.005
Oliveira, M. H. S.; Arruda, E. F.; Luz, G.; Macário, R. (2022). The Impact of the European Development Fund and European Bank as Financing Sources on Traffic Estimation Biases. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 45, 100884 https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RTBM.2022.100884
Luz, G., & Portugal, L. (2022). Understanding transport-related social exclusion through the lens of capabilities approach. Transport Reviews, 42(4), 503–525. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2021.2005183
Luz, G., & Capodeferro, M. W. (2021). Corruption, institutions and development. A Economia em Revista-AERE, 29(3). (in Portuguese)
Barboza, M.H., Carneiro, M.S., Falavigna, C., Luz, G., Orrico, R., (2021). Balancing time: Using a new accessibility measure in Rio de Janeiro. Journal of Transport Geography 90, 102924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102924
Lima, G. C. L. S., Carvalho, G. S. D. D., & Figueiredo, M. Z. (2020). Incomplete contracts for bus service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Revista de Administração Pública, 54, 994-1009. https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220200292x

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