Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Gabriel Valença
Citation names
- Valença, Gabriel
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- DF15-8494-BA2F
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3684-3005
- Google Scholar ID
- C6ZkQvAAAAAJ&hl
- LattesiD
- http://lattes.cnpq.br/9569852495838627
Websites
- https://ushift.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/team-gabriel-valenca/ (Scholar)
- https://streets4all.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/bio-gabriel-valenca/ (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering - Transport Engineering
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2018 - 2023/12/18
Concluded
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Transportation Systems (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Allocating road space dynamically over time in complex urban areas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Distinction and Honour |
2022/05/01 - 2022/10/31
Concluded
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Visiting Ph.D. scholar (Doktorexamen)
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
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2011/08/01 - 2017/07/04
Concluded
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Civil Engineering (Bachelor)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
"O conceito de ruas completas: Aplicação a um projeto viário em Natal, RN, considerando a Política Nacional de Mobilidade
Urbana" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2014/01/01 - 2014/12/31
Concluded
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Civil Engineering (Bachelor)
University of Toronto, Canada
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2013/09 - 2013/12
Concluded
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Advanced Academic English (Diplôme d´études supérieures)
University of Toronto, Canada
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/01/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/09/01 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/05/01 - 2024/12/31 | Dynamic and equitable Reallocation of Urban Street Space
PTDC/ECI-TRA/3120/2021
Post-doc Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal Centro de Investigação do Território Transportes e Ambiente, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/01/01 - 2023/12/31 | Dynamic and equitable Reallocation of Urban Street Space
PTDC/ECI-TRA/3120/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal Centro de Investigação do Território Transportes e Ambiente, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Conference abstract |
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Conference paper |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Online resource |
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Report |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2025/04/08 | Alocação dinâmica do espaço rodoviário em áreas urbanas e complexas | Conversas à Terça
RedeMov - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2025/01/31 | Perception in social media regarding the 15 minute city | GET 2025: 22nd Portuguese Meeting of the Research Network on Transportation
(Alcobaça, Portugal)
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2024 | Identifying complexity to reallocate street space: An open-source tool for Portugal. | NECTAR Conference
(Brussels, Belgium)
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2022 | Road space allocation strategies that change over time: A systematic review using text mining | Transport Research Arena (TRA)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2022 | Selecting streets and local characteristics for implementing scenarios of dynamic road space allocation | Transport Research Arena (TRA)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2022 | Evaluating local criteria for implementing Dynamic Road Space Allocation | AESOP Annual Congress
(Tartu (online), Estonia)
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2022 | Using text mining to perform literature reviews in transport and urban studies: a case study on emergent road space allocation solutions | 18th Portuguese Research Group in Mobility and Transportation Meeting (GET-2022)
(Porto, Portugal)
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2021 | Screening walkability violations through self-reported claims by smartphone detection: The case of Lisbon, Portugal | EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2021) |
2021 | A site selection methodology for implementing dynamic road space allocation | 13th CITTA Conference on Planning Research: Planning for Human Scale Cities (CITTA 2021)
(Portugal)
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2018 | O conceito de ruas completas: aplicação a um projeto viário em Natal-RN, Brasil, considerando a Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana | XX Latin-American Conference of Public and Urban Transportation (CLATPU 2018)
(Medellín, Colombia)
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2017 | The concept of complete streets: application of a road project in Natal, RN, taking into consideration the National Urban Mobility Policy | Invited keynote speaker at the Espaço Organizacional of the Geography undergraduate course
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil)
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2016 | Reflexões Acerca da Aplicação da Lei da Política Nacional de Mobilidade Urbana e da Elaboração de Planos Locais de Mobilidade Urbana no Brasil | XIX Latin-American Conference of Public and Urban Transportation (CLATPU 2016)
(Montevideo, Uruguay)
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2016 | A Infraestrutura Cicloviária e o Conceito de Ruas Completas: Lições da Experiência de Toronto, Canadá | Presentation to the VII Urban, Regional, Integrated and Sustainable Planning Luso-Brazilian Conference (PLURIS 2016)
(Maceio, Brazil)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2025/03 - Current | Análise da satisfação e confiabilidade na mobilidade escolar de crianças em transporte públicos
Supervisor
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Sistemas de Transportes (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2024/01 - Current | Developing Technologies and Dynamic Road Space Allocation Solutions: A Design Thinking Approach
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Civil (ULisboa e SHU) (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2024/01 - Current | Acceptance of Urban Interventions Among Different User Groups using Google Street View Time Machine Tool
Co-supervisor
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Engineering and Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2024/01 - 2024/12/11 | Assessing Pedestrians’ Perceptions About the Urban Environment in Different Times of the Day
Co-supervisor of Breno Boani da Costa
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Engenharia Civil (ULisboa e SHU) (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2025/04/16 - 2025/04/16 | Organization of the CERIS Pizza Seminar. Avital Angel from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) gave a 40 minute
presentation entitled "Walking and the city – Understanding pedestrian movement through big data technologies and machine
learning analysis over time". The Event was funded by the CERIS. (2025/04/16 - 2025/04/16)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2024 - Current | Invited to partipate in a round-table, entitled: "Shaping a fair and sustainable city: How to support young adults in overcoming
housing, work, and mobility challenges."
Round table
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Hybgen Joint Seminar Lisbon-Oslo
ISCTE Business School, Portugal
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2022/04/19 - 2022/04/19 | Invited speaker for the Civil Engineering Graduate Studies of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Brazil. I gave
the 2-hour lecture in Portuguese entitled "Ferramentas de Programação Aplicadas a Problemas e Modelação de Transportes".
Seminar
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International Talks
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2024/12/11 | Assessing Pedestrians’ Perception of the Urban Environment in Different Times of the Day
Supervisor
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Breno Boani da Costa (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2024/05 | Improving Sustainable Mobility for University Campuses (Ph.D. project thesis)
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ewerton Torres (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2024/04/10 - Current | Journal of Urban Mobility | Elsevier |
2024/02/14 - Current | Journal of Transport Geography | Elsevier |
2024 - Current | Cities | Elservier |
2020/03/15 - Current | Case Studies on Transport Policy | Elsevier |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2024 - Current | EIT Urban Mobility Alumni |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2025/01 - 2025/03 | Elements of Urban Engineering | Engenharia Civil (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2024/08 - 2025/02 | Transport Demand Management | Sistemas de Transportes (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2024/09 - 2024/11 | Quantitative Methods of Analysis in Transportation | Sistemas de Transportes (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2024/09 - 2024/11 | Planning and Management or Urban Mobility | Engenharia Civil (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2024/09 - 2024/09 | Get your Dataset Ready: Using R and GIS. Course given to Ph.D. Candidates enrolled in the Doctoral Training Network funded by the EIT Urban Mobility at the University of Ghent, Belgium. We have developed an open-source website with all the materials given in the course: https://u-shift.github.io/EITcourse/ | R programming for transport and GIS applications (Postgraduate Certificate) | Universiteit Gent Vakgroep Geografie, Belgium EIT Urban Mobility, Belgium |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2022/06 - Current | Sociedade Civil | Infraestrutura cicloviária |
Distinctions
Award
2024 | Honorable mention of the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
RedeMov - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Title
2023 | Ph.D. with Distinction and Honour
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Other distinction
2024 | EIT Urban Mobility Doctoral Training Network Label
EIT Urban Mobility, Belgium
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