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Call for Applications: ITF Young Researcher of the Year Award

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By Rafael H M Pereira

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The International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD has opened a call for applications for the 2020 Young Researcher of the Year Award. The winner of the Award will be invited to present her/his work at the ITF Annual Summit.
 
 

“The principal aim of the International Transport Forum’s Young Researcher of the Year Award is to highlight the importance of transport research for sound transport policy formulation and implementation, and to foster closer links between transport policy and research. For 2020, the theme of the Summit is ‘Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development’.”

 
I was really honored to receive this award last year and it was a truly great experience. If you are eligible, I would highly recommend you apply for this award. The application is “open to researchers under 35 years of age at the time of closing of applications who have undertaken the research presented in the submitted paper in an institution, university or consultancy firm located in a member country of the ITF/OECD”.
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First results of Access to Opportunities Project are now online

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By Urban Demographics  
 
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Last week, we officialy launched the Access to Opportunities Project. In this first edition of the project (2019) we present accessibility estimates by active transport modes (walking and cycling) for the 20 largest cities in the Brazil, and by public transport for 7 major cities (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre e Curitiba).
 
At the occasion of the event, we launched the website of the project where one can find:
  1. a published report analyzing inequalities in access to opportunities in Brazil’s largest cities (report only available in Portuguese)
  2. an interactive map to explore the results
  3. the data outputs of the project
  4. the computational code used to process, analyze and visualize the data
Here is a quick demo of the interactive map but please go ahead and try it for yourself. The app scales fairly well despite the massive amount of data, thanks to Kauê Braga‘s work using in R to create a mapdeck application in shiny.
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