The objective of this work is to propose and evaluate different alternatives to reduce the congestion and improve the road system in a critical portion of a major avenue in the city of Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The alternatives are outlined and selected using Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), which encompasses three different phases: structuring, evaluation, and recommendation. The underlying goal of this paper is to show how a multicriteria methodology can be applied as a Decision Support Tool for complex problems, such as urban congestion, where many alternatives are available, leading the actors to understand the impacts of their decision and ultimately improving their overall decision-making process.

Implementing an on-farm storage system for agricultural products becomes a complex decision problem when considering risks, benefits, uncertainties and alternatives. This study aimed at applying the multicriteria decision aid (MCDA) approach to select the infrastructure to be implemented, taking into account variables and farmer's goals. As a result, we concluded that the adopted approach was useful since it allowed a better understanding of the problem and provided decision-making support.

Over the past few years, several Brazilian cities have had the opportunity to change the urban mobility guidelines by reviewing their main planning tool − the master plan. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the advances made by Brazilian city halls regarding the inclusion of sustainable mobility in the revision of their master plans. The plans of Praia Grande, Santo André and São Carlos were analysed in view of the principles of transit-oriented development, one of the main approaches to sustainable mobility. The main proposals were the promotion of neighbourhood central districts and of mixed land uses, as a way of reducing the need for commuting, and the population densification around public transport routes. The results of the study provide data useful to municipalities that wish to incorporate proposals for the improvement of urban mobility into the revision of their master plans.

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Traffic congestion continues to worsen in South American cities of all sizes, creating a $ billion annual drain on the South American Countries economy in the form of lost hours and gallons of wasted fuel.The purpose of this work is to provide an overview of urban transport problems and city logistics challenges in Sao Paulo city center. The focus of the discussion is the emerging concept of city logistics to improve the mobility of cities, and the research opportunity that it creates.Production and consumption have long been central to understanding the evolution and management of transport systems. The current paper argues that there are now some new concepts in that understanding which deserve consideration and will shape a different future.On the other hand, the organization of logistics has an effect upon the structure of urban areas. At a simple level, global and continental scale logistics systems are organized around airports, seaports, road and rail systems and storage facilities, which all tend to be space extensive.These challenges are the growth in logistics systems for the globalization of production and consumption, and the related spatial and functional restructuring of large scale urban regions. The core ideas of the paper are that these two changes, associated with innovation and structural change in the economy, have produced concentration as well as dispersal of different types of production and consumption in very large urban regions. They create the need for some new responses in transport planning.

Promover o transporte sustentável em regiões metropolitanas é um problema com­plexo, devido à grande quantidade de atores com objetivos muitas vezes conflitantes, além da forma com que cada comunidade, de acordo com o contexto local, absorve os conceitos ligados à sustentabilidade. Neste ambiente, é fundamental um suporte para orientar o planejamento e a tomada de decisão, considerando a sustentabilidade. A par­tir dos requisitos para um transporte sustentável e a participação dos diversos atores, elaborou-se um procedimento que auxilia na operacionalização do suporte, possibili­tando a obtenção dos objetivos fundamentais dos atores, a proposição de alternativas e sua avaliação. Para demonstrar sua viabilidade, a proposta foi aplicada na Região Me­tropolitana da Baixada Santista, uma região importante localizada na Região Sudeste do Brasil. Trinta e nove objetivos fundamentais foram obtidos.

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parte dos requisitos para obtenção do título de Mestre em Engenharia Civil, na área de concentração em Transportes.