Diego Hernandez

Universidad Católica del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga · Department of Social Sciences

This paper explores the role of space-time constraints in determining the conditions under which people access to basic social services. To do so, the paper addresses two empirical questions: (i) how travel time impacts families’ strategies for choosing and using social services, and (ii) how service characteristics become part of the constraints f...

This paper addresses public transport affordability inequities for Cordoba, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. In calculating public transport affordability, we consider two different criteria based on the “observed mobility” and the “potential mobility”. Using household travel survey data, we estimate that on average, observed public transport af...

One of the major current challenges for mobility and transport studies in Latin America is the adoption of a multidimensional approach that goes beyond the narrower notion of trip and that does not neglect a broader discussion about mobility’s eect on poverty and social exclusion. €is article seeks to tackle this challenge and posits an analytical...

Planning and designing an efficient public transport system represents an important but difficult challenge for public authorities. Frequently, the lack of coordination between different public and private stakeholders involved affect serious obstacles. Considering related problems experienced in the city Santiago de Chile, this paper suggests a co...

Introduction This paper addresses how transport-related factors and health service provision negatively impacts women's wellbeing and healthcare accessibility. It analyzes space-time costs for the transport component but also those resulting from healthcare quality provision. In particular, it focused on the role played by gender inequality in the...

Access to urban health care opportunities is a major factor in explaining health outcomes. We propose an innovative methodology to analyze spatio-temporal accessibility considering spatial, temporal, and individual variability on both the demand and the supply side. To construct the measure, we use three primary sources: an exhaustive survey of the...

This chapter describes gender differences in Montevideo through the study of daily mobility. Generally, mobility studies do not account for gender differences more than in a superficial way, distinguishing basic travel patterns by sex. However, different patterns and mobility behaviours can obscure situations of deeply entrenched gender inequality...

Accessibility to job opportunities is one of the factors that explains labor outcomes. For developing countries, public transport plays a key role in providing the population with access to employment opportunities. This paper aims to quantify accessibility by public transport to employment in Montevideo, Uruguay and to explore how accessibility to...

Este documento presenta el Informe Final de la consultoría “Estudio sobre un modelo conceptual para la elaboración de un sistema de indicadores relativo a la calidad de las ciudades uruguayas con énfasis en las dimensiones de competencia departamental”. A partir de dicho estudio de consultoría, la OPP se ha puesto como objetivo contar con un sistem...

Serie Ideas para agendas emergentes. Montevideo: PNUD Uruguay

Qué implica la accesibilidad en el diseño e implementación de políticas públicas urbanas? Concepto, instrumentos para su evaluación y su rol en la planificación de la movilidad urbana

Este documento busca contribuir a la discusión sobre tiempo y género en la región desde la perspectiva de la geografía del tiempo. Esta mirada, complementaria a la acumulación sobre usos del tiempo y tipos de trabajo, pone el foco en los constreñimientos espacio-temporales que las familias, en particular las mujeres, enfrentan para realizar las act...

Even though mobility is a requirement for participation in "modern life", the truth is that mobility is unevenly distributed and it constitutes a field of contestation and dispute among social classes. Mobility does not derive from individual decisions or free choices. On the contrary, it is the result of the interaction between individual attribut...

El transporte público es clave para garantizar la capacidad de las personas para acceder a las oportunidades y recursos que ofrece la ciudad. A diferencia de otros medios como el automóvil, es el que menos peso monetario recarga sobre sus usuarios, convirtiéndolo en el medio que más desmercantiliza la movilidad. En efecto, constituye un instrumento...

Este capítulo propõe caracterizar a Mobilidade Inclusiva como atributo da Mobilidade Sustentável, trazer à discussão as problemáticas evidenciadas pela falta de acessibilidade, apresentar a importância do assunto para as cidades brasileiras e estabelecer estratégias de acessibilidade para atingir uma mobilidade inclusiva. A mobilidade inclusiva é r...

O objetivo do capítulo é o de caracterizar a Mobilidade Justa Socialmente como atributo da Mobilidade Sustentável e estabelecer estratégias de acessibilidade para promovê-la. O conceito de Mobilidade Justa Socialmente que é utilizado neste capítulo se refere à forma em que são distribuídos entre os indivíduos de uma sociedade os impactos positivos...

Este informe contiene los principales resultados e indicadores que se desprenden de la encuesta de movilidad en el Área Metropolitana de Montevideo (AMM) realizada en el año 2016. Estos resultados brindan un panorama de la movilidad de personas que habitan el AMM, a través de la declaración de viajes habituales realizados con diferentes propósitos...

RESUMEN América Latina es un continente conocido por sus niveles de desigualdad económica en varios aspectos de la vida social y el campo de la movilidad cotidiana no es la excepción. Es muy frecuente que los estudios sobre movilidad desigual o inequitativa se centren en los diferentes patrones de movilidad observada entre estratos socioeconómicos....

This paper explores the distribution of benefits among socioeconomic groups of transit fare policy measures adopted in Montevideo (capital of Uruguay). These measures are conceived as decommodification devices as they intend to make people more independent from market mechanisms –that demand capacity to pay- to access urban resources and opportunit...

Las encuestas de movilidad juegan un rol central para la planificación de los sistemas de movilidad urbana. Tienen por tanto una incidencia significativa en una de las políticas urbanas con mayor trascendencia en la vida de las ciudades y sus habitantes. La información proveniente de una encuesta de movilidad debería maximizar la capacidad de las a...

To plan public transport supply and to increase transit patronage, it is indispensable to be aware of people’s perception of the actual supply, that is, how extensive and accurate people’s knowledge is regarding the concrete features of transport supply, such as the locations of transit stops, timetables, and fare structures. This paper addresses t...

El artículo desarrolla un esquema conceptual relacionado con el acceso al transporte en la ciudad de Montevideo y los modos de optimizar el sistema vigente. Uno de los conceptos fundamentales que se desarrollan es el de desmercantilización aplicado a las políticas de transporte público. En ese marco se reseñan los principales hallazgos sobre movili...

To plan public transport supply, the understanding of people’s travel behaviour and mode choice decisions is indispensable. One of the dimensions of this understanding has to do with the perception of the actual supply, in other words, how good and accurate is people’s knowledge about the concrete features of transport supply, such as locations of...

To assess mobility in cities from developing countries, it is indispensable to consider basic dimensions of access. Unlike industrialized countries, the discussion on individual motorized mobility is not central because these cities still present an important public transport percentage of modal share. Taking into account the captivity of some soci...

Este informe forma parte de una serie de estudios de caso nacionales cuyo propósito es difundir el conocimiento sobre la situación actual de los sistemas de protección social en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, así como discutir los principales desafíos en este ámbito en términos de la realización de los derechos económicos y sociales de l...

One of the major current challenges for mobility and transport studies in Latin America is the adoption of a multidimensional approach that goes beyond the narrower notion of trip and that does not neglect a broader discussion about mobility's effect on poverty and social exclusion. This article seeks to tackle this challenge and posits an analytic...

The purpose of this chapter is to identify the requirements of public transport modernization and resulting impacts on people’s daily life and social inequalities, with specific regard to the case of Santiago de Chile. The public transport policy developed from a period of deregulation in the 1980s to reregulation since the late 1990s, which seems...

En toda ciudad existen oportunidades para moverse y recursos que manejan los hogares para poder aprovechar dichas oportunidades. La vulnerabilidad en esta materia está dada por el ajuste entre dichas oportunidades y los recursos de los hogares. La investigación busca responder si las estructuras de oportunidades (en particular el transporte público...

En la actualidad, una de las preocupaciones centrales en nuestras ciudades es el diseño y la implementación de un sistema de transporte público que facilite el acceso igualitario a las oportunidades en el territorio. En este sentido, se abre un amplio abanico de desafíos relacionados generación de información que incorpore la dimensión social del t...

The bulk of scholarship on emigration as a social and political process tends to focus on those who migrate and their situation in the host country. In contrast, only limited attention has been given to the study of those who remain in the home country. One of the distinctive features of this article is that it does not stress the classical migrati...