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Rui Colaço is a researcher at CERIS, coming from a PhD in Territorial Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Universidade de Lisboa. Before, he worked for several years in the private and public sectors as an engineer and urban planner. His background is also in Territorial Engineering at the IST. Since Fall 2022, he is also a Fulbrighter (4-month stay at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)). His research is presently located at the intersection between urban and transportation planning, focusing on ICT impacts on travel and land-use, and on accessibility and its implications for land use planning, urban development and sustainability. Having been funded by Fundação para a Ciência and Tecnologia (FCT) through a PhD studentship between October 2018 and February 2023, he’s now a member of the team working on the REMOBIL research project, while also collaborating with the international team working in the "Relações entre Teletrabalho, Escolhas Residenciais, E-Commerce e Comportamentos de Viagens" project and leading the C3GEO project (a CERIS "seed" project).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rui Colaço

Citation names

  • Colaço, Rui

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F01D-E83A-8B19
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7574-1458

Email addresses

  • r.colaco@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
  • ruicolacopt@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

  • CERIS - Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources. Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais , 1049-001 , Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Transport Planning and Social Aspects of Transport
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
  • Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering - Transport Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/10/15 - 2023/04/13
Concluded
 Engenharia do Território (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Devising a toolset for assessing the impact of technological development on retail location and its relationship with urban growth" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass with Distinction and Honour
2017/11/13
Concluded
 Urbanismo e Ordenamento do Território (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Retail Anatomy. An Analysis on Commercial Activity in Lisbon. 1995-2010" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17 valores
2000
Concluded
 Engenharia do Territorio (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15 valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/05/15 - Current Postdoc (Research) 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
2023/03/01 - 2023/05/14 Researcher (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/10/15 - 2023/02/14 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/11/01 - 2018/10/14 Territorial Engineer (Urban Planning Department) Câmara Municipal de Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
2003/03/01 - 2015/10/31 Territorial Engineer (Urban Planning Department, Public Works Department) Câmara Municipal de Sintra, Portugal
2001/01/01 - 2003/02/28 Junior Engineer / Territorial Engineer. Urbiteme Lda., Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/10/15 - 2023/02/14 The Changing Processes of Retail Location - Devising an Urban Analytical Toolset in the face of Technological Development
SFRH/BD/136003/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/06/01 - Current C3GEO – A Community Carbon Calculator for GEOgraphically customised areas
CERIS BASE 20-23/UIDB/04625/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade
Ongoing
2024/01/01 - Current Relações entre Teletrabalho, Escolhas Residenciais, E-Commerce e Comportamentos de Viagens (Relationships between Telework, Residential Choices, E-Commerce, and Travel Behavior)
CNPq 441615/2023-6
Post-doc
Universidade de São Paulo Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Brazil
 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Ongoing
2023/03/01 - Current REthinking MOBILity, location patterns and urban form after the COVID19 pandemic. The effects of telework and e-shopping
10.54499/PTDC/ECI-TRA/4841/2021
Post-doc
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

Universidade de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação sobre Complexidade e Economia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. João António De Abreu e Silva; Colaço, Rui. Corresponding author: João António De Abreu e Silva. "Living in the city or leaving town? Analyzing the impacts of telework adoption on residential relocation". Paper presented in 17th Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers (NECTAR) Conference, Brussels, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Leise Kelli Oliveira; Colaço, Rui; Gracielle Gonçalves Ferreira de Araújo; João António De Abreu e Silva. Corresponding author: Leise Kelli Oliveira. "Can we interest you in picking up your delivery? Exploring e-shopping effects on delivery services preferences in Belo Horizonte, Brazil". Paper presented in 17th Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR) Conference, Brussels, 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Leise Kelli Oliveira; Colaço, Rui; Gracielle Gonçalves Ferreira de Araújo; João António De Abreu e Silva. "Analyzing the Parcel Delivery Pattern in the Global South: The case of Belo Horizonte". Paper presented in 5th World Symposium on Transport & Land Use Research (WSTLUR), Bogota, 2024.
    Submitted
  4. João António De Abreu e Silva; Colaço, Rui. Corresponding author: João António De Abreu e Silva. "Residential dissonance of teleworkers: implications on relocation and impacts on urban sprawl in a post-COVID world". Paper presented in 5th World Symposium on Transport & Land Use Research (WSTLUR), Bogota, 2024.
    Submitted
  5. Colaço, Rui; João António De Abreu e Silva. "Devising an integrated measure of virtual and physical accessibility to shopping". Paper presented in NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers) Clusters 6 Meeting - The impact of ICT on accessibility after the pandemic: new formats of shopping, work and transport, Antwerp, 2023.
    Accepted
  6. João António De Abreu e Silva; Colaço, Rui. Corresponding author: João António De Abreu e Silva. "Using causal inference to study the evolving relationships between e-shopping and in-store shopping. A pre and post COVID19 analysis in Lisbon, Portugal". Paper presented in NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers) Clusters 6 Meeting - The impact of ICT on accessibility after the pandemic: new formats of shopping, work and transport, Antwerp, 2023.
    Accepted
  7. Kappler, Laísa Braga; Colaço, Rui; Afonso, Nuno; Amorim, Julianno; de Abreu e Silva, João. Corresponding author: Kappler, Laísa Braga. "Women in work from home: does gender impact telework engagement?". Paper presented in NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers) Clusters 6 & 7 Joint Meeting - Sustainable Neighbourhoods: Urban and transport planning for sustainable urban living, Coimbra, 2023.
    Accepted
  8. Colaço, Rui; João António De Abreu e Silva. "Evaluating the potential of a "beta" x minute city in a Metropolitan Area: Evidence from Lisbon". Paper presented in NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers) Clusters 6 & 7 Joint Meeting - Sustainable Neighbourhoods: Urban and transport planning for sustainable urban living, Coimbra, 2023.
    Accepted
  9. Colaço, Rui; João António De Abreu e Silva. "Are we moving online? A longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 impacts on e-shopping adoption". Paper presented in RARCS 2022 - Recent Advances in Retailing and Consumer Science, Baveno, 2022.
    Accepted
  10. João António De Abreu e Silva; Colaço, Rui. Corresponding author: João António De Abreu e Silva. "Adaptation of shopping behavior in the aftermath of the COVID-19". Paper presented in RARCS 2022 - Recent Advances in Retailing and Consumer Science, Baveno, 2022.
    Accepted
Conference paper
  1. Gardrat, Mathieu; Silva, João de Abreu; Barthelmes, Lukas; Chlond, Bastian; Clifton, Kelly; Colaço, Rui; Ciommo, Floridea Di. "Workshop synthesis: Commercial trips patterns and demand for goods from firms and households". Paper presented in ISCTSC 2022 - The 12th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods, Vimeiro, 2022.
    Published • 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.12.087
  2. Colaço, Rui; de Abreu e Silva, João. "Intrapersonal variability and underreporting – comparing a one-week shopping survey with a one-day travel survey". Paper presented in ISCTSC 2022 - The 12th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods, Vimeiro, 2022.
    Published • 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.12.044
  3. Colaço, Rui; de Abreu e Silva, João. Corresponding author: Colaço, Rui. "Analysing Retail Location and Urban Dynamics in Lisboa". Paper presented in AESOP 30th Annual Congress, Lisbon, 2017.
Conference poster
  1. Leise Kelli de Oliveira; Gracielle Gonçalves Ferreira de Araújo; Colaço, Rui; João António De Abreu e Silva. Corresponding author: Leise Kelli de Oliveira. "What drives warehouse prices? Estimating a spatial hedonic warehouse pricing model in Belo Horizonte, Brazil". Paper presented in Transportation Research Board (TRB) 104th Annual Meeting, 2025.
Journal article
  1. Rui Colaço; João de Abreu e Silva. "Does the 15-minute City Promote Sustainable Travel? Quantifying the 15-minute City and Assessing its Impact on Individual Motorized Travel, Active Travel, Public Transit Ridership and CO2 Emissions". Networks and Spatial Economics (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-025-09670-6.
    10.1007/s11067-025-09670-6
  2. Leise Kelli de Oliveira; Gracielle Gonçalves Ferreira de Araújo; Rui Colaço; João de Abreu e Silva. "What drives warehouse prices? Estimating a spatial hedonic warehouse pricing model in Belo Horizonte, Brazil". Transportation Planning and Technology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2024.2445651.
    10.1080/03081060.2024.2445651
  3. Rui Colaço; Laísa Braga Kappler; João de Abreu e Silva. "Pandemic immobilities and consequences for commuting: Implications for mobility of COVID-19 mandatory telecommuting". Journal of Transport Geography (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103780.
    10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103780
  4. Rui Colaço; João de Abreu e Silva. "Commercial land use change and growth processes – An assessment of retail location in Lisbon, Portugal, 1995–2020". Journal of Urban Management (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2023.11.005.
    10.1016/j.jum.2023.11.005
  5. Rui Colaço; João de Abreu e Silva. "Interactions between Online Shopping, In-Store Shopping and Weekly Travel Behavior: An Analysis Before and in the Aftermath of COVID-19 in Lisbon, Portugal". Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2023): https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231194628.
    10.1177/03611981231194628
  6. Rui Colaço; João de Abreu e Silva. "Exploring the role of accessibility in shaping retail location using space syntax measures: A panel-data analysis in Lisbon, 1995–2010". Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (2022): https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221138570.
    10.1177/23998083221138570
  7. Rui Colaço; João de Abreu e Silva. "Exploring the e-shopping geography of Lisbon: Assessing online shopping adoption for retail purchases and food deliveries using a 7-day shopping survey". Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 65 (2022): 102859-102859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102859.
    10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102859
  8. Rui Colaço; João de Abreu e Silva. "Commercial Classification and Location Modelling: Integrating Different Perspectives on Commercial Location and Structure". Land 10 6 (2021): 567-567. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10060567.
    10.3390/land10060567
  9. Colaço, Rui; de Abreu e Silva, João. "Exploring the Interactions between Online Shopping, In-Store Shopping, and Weekly Travel Behavior using a 7-Day Shopping Survey in Lisbon, Portugal". Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2675 5 (2021): 379-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198121990672.
    Published • 10.1177/0361198121990672
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "The Changing Processes of Retail Location - Devising an Urban Analytical Toolset in the face of Technological Development". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2023.
  2. "Retail Anatomy - An Analysis on Commercial Activity in Lisbon, 1995-2010". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2017. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/downloadFile/1689244997257794/RESUMO_RuiColaco.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/01/06 Does the 15-minute city promote sustainable travel? Quantifying the 15-minute city and assessing its impact on individual motorized travel, active travel, public transit ridership and CO2 emissions Transportation Research Board (TRB) 104th Annual Meeting
Transportation Research Board (Washington D.C., United States)
2024/07/05 Can we interest you in picking up your delivery? Exploring e-shopping effects on delivery services preferences in Belo Horizonte, Brazil 17th NECTAR Conference
Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers (Brussels, Belgium)
2024/06/19 The Changing Processes of Retail Location - Devising an Urban Analytical Toolset in the face of Technological Development 5th World Symposium on Transport & Land Use Research (WSTLUR)
World Society for Transport and Land Use Research (Bogotá, Colombia)
2023/10/12 Devising an integrated measure of virtual and physical accessibility to shopping NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers) Clusters 6 Meeting - The impact of ICT on accessibility after the pandemic: new formats of shopping, work and transport
University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
2023/10/11 Evaluating the potential of a "beta" x minute city in a Metropolitan Area: Evidence from Lisbon Accessibility and Connectivity knowledge hub for Urban Transformation in Europe (ACUTE) seminar
University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
2023/06/14 Evaluating the potential of a "beta" x minute city in a Metropolitan Area: Evidence from Lisbon NECTAR (Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers) Clusters 6 & 7 Joint Meeting - Sustainable Neighbourhoods: Urban and transport planning for sustainable urban living
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/02/06 The Changing Processes of Retail Location. Devising an Urban Analytical Toolset in the face of Technological Development. GET2023 - 19th Meeting of the Transports Study Group (GET)
Grupo de Estudos em Transportes (GET) (Oeiras, Portugal)
2023/01/10 Interactions Between Online Shopping, In-store Shopping and Weekly Travel Behavior: An Analysis Before and in the Aftermath of COVID-19 in Lisbon, Portugal Transportation Research Board (TRB) 102nd Annual Meeting
Transportation Research Board (Washington D.C., United States)
2022/07 Are we moving online? A longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 impacts on e-shopping adoption RARCS 2022 - Recent Advances in Retailing and Consumer Science
(Baveno, Italy)
2022/03/22 The issue of intrapersonal variability: comparing a classic 1-day travel survey with a 7-day shopping survey ISCTSC 2022 - The 12th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods
International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences (Vimeiro, Portugal)
2022/03/16 Complementaridade ou Substituição entre compras online e compras físicas Encontro Univercidades 2022: Ideias para Lisboa
Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa (CIUL) (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/03/01 - Current Access to shopping opportunities and the complementary and/or substitution effect of e-commerce ("“Acesso à Oportunidade de Compra e o Efeito de Complementaridade e/ou Substituição do Comércio Eletrônico”)
Co-supervisor
 Civil Engineering (PhD)
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/09/01 - 2025/06/30 Joint Meeting NECTAR Cluster 6 (Accessibility) and Cluster 8 (Information and Communication Technologies): "The future of accessibility: integrating digital connectivity with (physical) proximity". Local co-organisor. (2024/09/01 - 2025/06/19)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/07/03 - 2024/07/05 17th Network of European Communications and Transportation Academic Researchers (NECTAR) Conference. Session chair. (2024/07/03 - 2024/07/05)
Conference (Other)
 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2023/12/15 - 2024/06/20 5th World Symposium on Transport & Land Use Research (WSTLUR). Programme Committee Member. "Freight, city logistics and e-commerce" Track Co-Chair. (2024/06/17 - 2024/06/20)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
2024/05/17 - 2024/05/17 Seminar/webinar "Teletrabalho. compras online e mobilidade... É complicado!" (Telework, e-shopping and mobility - It's not easy!). Organized as one of CERIS' "pizza seminars", open to the academic community and the general public. Co-organisor. (2024/05/17 - 2024/05/17)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/11/12 Relationships between telework and mobility patterns: an approach in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic ("Relações entre teletrabalho e padrões de mobilidade: uma abordagem no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19").
(Thesis) Arguer
 Carolina Yumi Suzuki Goshima (Master)
Universidade de São Paulo Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Brazil

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025/01/27 - Current Cities Elsevier
2024/10/01 - Current Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment Elsevier
2024/07/01 - Current Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Elsevier
2024/07 - Current Transportation Springer
2024/06/01 - Current Transportation Planning and Technology Taylor & Francis
2024/03/01 - Current Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board SAGE
2022/08 - Current Travel Behaviour and Society Elsevier

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/10/29 - Current World Society for Transport & Land Use Research Board Member (Early Career Researcher)
2023/03/01 - Current Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR) Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09/15 - Current Planning and Management of Urban Mobility Civil Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2024 Rio de Transportes Congress - Paulo Cezar Martins Ribeiro Award - Best Paper (Logistics)
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2022 Fulbright Award
Fulbright Portugal, Portugal

Other distinction

2024 Papers@USA Grant (to present a paper at the TRB2025)
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2024 WSTLUR Best PhD Dissertation Award (one of eight finalists)