Vicente Aprigliano Fernandes

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso | PUCV · School for Construction and Transport Engineering

Long-term scenarios for mobility within cities usually neglect the energy supply challenge and how the implied risks affect urban mobility services. High levels of private transport and fossil fuel dependency tend to prevail in urban agglomerations of modern cities in many parts of the world. The resilience approach supports a new perspective on tr...

This paper examines the impact of air transport on tourism-related employment in Brazil, one of the largest economies of the world, where both industries are operating well below their potential. Job creation in typical tourist industry activities in response to innovations in passenger air transport is a paramount indicator for both the tourism an...

Valparaíso presents complex topographical and socio-spatial conditions, which lead one to question, at first sight, which factors may be the determinant for promoting sustainable urban mobility. This study aims to respond to this question by testing two hypotheses, one that is related to the neo-environmental determinism and another to the social p...

The global network analysis (GNA) is adapted to a domestic air network analysis (DANA), in order to identify structural changes of the air network of Brazil, with a regional perspective of the country. The networkability of airports involves the measurement of traditional indicators of the GNA, such as connectivity and local centrality. Furthermore...

Dado que en Latinoamérica las ciudades grandes no han logrado resolver diversos problemas de base con los instrumentos de planificación urbana existentes, se ve la necesidad de evaluar lo que está pasando con la implementación de instrumentos de planificación en ciudades intermedias y pequeñas para contribuir a la disminución de las ya reconocidas...

This paper aims to understand the current research scenario through published studies on corporate sustainability, emphasizing the environmental approach. Methodologically, this research develops a systematic literature review based on papers published in the Web of Science database in the last ten years. As a result, there was an upward evolution...

The objective of this work is to study the sensitivity of cyclists who are overtaken by a motor vehicle in a street route without cycling lanes. To achieve this, an experimental method is proposed in which 17 cyclists were recruited and classified into two groups: non-experienced users and experienced ones. In each run, the motor vehicle generated...

The objective is to study the distribution of passengers inside urban trains for different levels of crowding. The study is carried out through the observation of videos made by laboratory experiments in which a mock-up of a carriage represented the boarding and alighting process. The Fruin’s Level of Service (LOS) was adopted, but with a different...

The positive results of manufacturing companies adopting lean production practices certainly impacted the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing principles to the service sector, culminating in what we know today as Lean Office. Based on this approach, many Universities have adopted lean principles and practices to improve their administrative processes...

Sustainable consumption requires that people, companies, and nations promote correct use of their resources in the interest of environmental protection and ecosystem integrity. Given the relevance of this subject, the main objective of the present study was to provide an overview of the literature on sustainable consumption, going beyond knowledge...

This paper analyses the dynamics of the relationship between air transport and tourism in Brazil. The analytical tools used were statistical inference and the efficiency frontier for the relationship between passenger air transport and tourism, using Malmquist data enveloping analysis. Of the 330 tourist regions registered with the Ministry of Tour...

Acknowledging the possible impacts of the location of a vertical handrail on the accessibility of wheelchair passengers, this study explores different dimensions of the vertical handrail and elements of the internal space of a metro carriage and how they can impact the behaviour of passengers. For this purpose, simulation scenarios have been develo...

Passenger flows among cities, at both the domestic and international levels and in different countries and regions, have been studied for forecasting purposes. This paper seeks not a forecasting mechanism, but to understand, by analyzing passenger origins and destinations by Brazilian sub-region, how Brazil’s domestic air passenger network links ha...

Understanding consumer behaviour based on income-price elasticities of air travel demand is strategic for decision-making in civil aviation industry. The literature analyses markets on a static perspective of demand elasticity, not considering its evolution over time or its diversity throughout the territory. This paper makes use of a panel-data re...

There is an increase in the consumption of products across the globe and with it, the damage and environmental impacts also grow in significant proportions. Therefore, there is a need to propose methods, techniques and procedures capable of minimizing environmental impacts, which, consequently, has inspired the academic community to develop researc...

Although the Management Oversight and Risk Tree (MORT) method is considered a respected analytical procedure to investigate causes and contributing factors of accidents and incidents in different types of businesses, its application in Supply Chain Risk Management was not found in the literature (SCRM). Given this gap, the general objective of this...

Since port activity is essential for countless supply chains, its operational efficiency is a relevant research topic for logistics and transport management. In order to be able to analyze, measure and improve its performance, it is necessary to establish evaluation criteria that take into account not only economic aspects, but also society and the...

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Supply chain risk management (SCRM) is imperative to achieve business sustainability in the long-term perspective and also to increase companies’ competitiveness. ISO 31000—Risk Management explains in its latest versions the need for companies to integrate a risk management process into their business models. Complementary to this standard, ISO 310...

Initiatives related to reverse logistics are increasingly common in companies that produce tires, lubricating oils, batteries, and electronic equipment, among others. In the pharmaceutical sector, reverse logistics is also relevant, contributing to reduce medication exposure to other people and the environment. Thus, this research seeks to find out...

Since few articles address risk issues related to solid waste management, although it is evident that waste management is not immune to risks, the present research aims to analyze the risk management process in programming and loading of solid waste from a company in the steel sector, based on the ISO 31000. Methodologically, the research was suppo...

There is a vast amount of literature on relations between air transport activities and economic growth. The recognition that these are important relationships has aroused the interest of researchers, who have studied them with regard to remote towns. The empirical studies have concentrated more on developed areas, such as Europe, North America, and...

Social sustainability is a dimension of the concept of sustainability that has gained importance only in the last few decades and can be identified as the pursuit and measure of social equity. Equity can be analyzed under two approaches: horizontal and vertical. The horizontal approach considers the distribution of benefits equally, while the verti...

As políticas de planejamento urbano e de transportes apresentam o desafio de promover a equidade social. Em se tratando de transportes, um fator de impedância comum para o acesso aos espaços sociais é o tempo de viagem. Neste sentido, é apresentado neste trabalho um procedimento que analisa o nível de equidade social, a partir da acessibilidade a e...

The literature, aimed at understanding the income-price elasticity of air passenger demand, bases its analysis on airport movement. The diversity of studies regarding the casualty between air transportation and economic growth are examples. Some studies covering this link, estimate the income-price relationship with the demand considering internati...

The literature, aimed at understanding the income-price elasticity of air passenger demand, bases its analysis on airport movement. The diversity of studies regarding the casualty between air transportation and economic growth are examples. Some studies covering this link, estimate the income-price relationship with the demand considering internati...

Resilience is the ability of a system to adapt, persist, and transform as a reaction to threats, which may be external or internal to the system, while vulnerability is the state of being susceptible to harm from exposure to stresses associated with environmental and social change and from the inability to adapt. Based on a study of the threats tha...

This paper examines the causality between tourism openness (TOOP), trade openness (TROP), and currency‐purchasing power (BRPP) in Brazil and measures the future impact of innovations. Johansen cointegration tests and vector error correction estimates support the hypothesis that there is short‐run and long‐run, one‐way Granger causality from TROP an...

Un alto grado de caminabilidad es clave para lograr barrios agradables y populares en una ciudad. Lugares y servicios tales como colegios, tiendas, farmacias o parques cercanos, son altamente requeridos por familias, jóvenes y adultos mayores (Harris 2012, Palmer 2012). Los barrios que motivan a sus residentes a caminar son también barrios más sust...

El tema abordado en esta edición “Actividad Física y Territorio: El Deporte como Promotor Social” es importante para distintas líneas del pensamiento científico, como ciencias sociales, salud, geografía, ciencias políticas y educación física entre otros campos del conocimiento. Felicito a los compendiadores Cesar Leal Soto y Jorge Montano Carvajal...

Resiliência é a capacidade de um sistema se adaptar, persistir e transformar mediante ameaças. Assim, este artigo objetiva identificar o nível de resiliência frente a ausência de integração tarifária utilizando lógica fuzzy sob a ótica de acesso aos empregos das 33 regiões administrativas do município do Rio de Janeiro. Foram utilizadas variáveis c...

RESUMO Estudos voltados para mobilidade sustentável vêm crescendo desde o final do século XX, e desde então os trabalhos empíricos e teóricos são crescentes neste âmbito. Este trabalho introduz um tema que ainda está pouco desenvolvido dentro da área de transportes, que é a preocupação com a vulnerabilidade da mobilidade urbana, frente a ameaças re...

Resumo: Apesar de existir, atualmente, um esforço do setor de transportes do Rio de Janeiro para demonstrar as contribuições das recentes soluções de mobilidade urbana para as questões sociais, ambientais e econômicas, ainda parece contraditório, quando a cidade em reestruturação continua apresentando uma distribuição desigual dos postos de trabalh...

Long-term scenarios for mobility within cities usually neglect the challenge of energy supply and the ways in which the implied risks can affect urban mobility services. High levels of private transport and fossil fuel dependency tend to prevail in urban agglomerations of modern cities in many parts of the world. The concept of resilient mobility s...

A crescente preocupação com as mudanças climáticas e o entendimento de que as ações antropogênicas são significativas para o agravamento do aquecimento global e das emissões de poluentes atmosféricos intensifica o incentivo, por parte dos governos e das instituições privadas, para a implantação de soluções sustentáveis nas cidades e nas cadeias de...

Exposé: This research aims at building a resilience concept of urban mobility. It is argued that in previous approaches to sustainable transport, elements of social interrelations and meanings are underrepresented. This may result in policy consequences in case of a sudden fuel price increase or disruption of oil supply. The motivation of this rese...

RESUMO Estudos voltados para mobilidade sustentável vêm crescendo desde o final do século XX, e desde então os trabalhos empíricos e teóricos são crescentes neste âmbito. Este trabalho introduz um tema que ainda está pouco desenvolvido dentro da área de transportes, que é a preocupação com a vulnerabilidade da mobilidade urbana, frente a ameaças r...

Este artigo teve por objetivo apresentar os resultados obtidos por meio de um projeto. Nesse projeto participaram 22 motoristas e 11 veículos pesados que realizam a coleta e transferência de lixo em área urbana na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Para isso, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica a fim de apresentar os principais conceitos e objetivos do...

The growing concern towards climate change and understanding that anthropogenic activities are significant towards global warming and atmospheric pollutants emissions has intensified the incentives of governments and private institutions to implement sustainable solutions in cities and supply chains, therefore reducing the impact on the environment...

RESUMO A crescente preocupação com as mudanças climáticas e o entendimento de que as ações antropogênicas são significativas para o agravamento do aquecimento global e das emissões de poluentes atmosféricos tem intensificado o incentivo, por parte dos governos e das instituições privadas, para a implantação de soluções sustentáveis nas cidades e n...

A mobilidade urbana é uma tema fundamental para a busca de uma melhor qualidade de vida daqueles que residem no espaço urbano. E por meio do estudo das viagens geradas de automóvel e a pé pelas áreas residenciais, busca-se compreender os fatores influentes nas viagens geradas por condomínios residenciais. Através do levantamento e espacialização de...

RESUMO: Durante o século XVIII as áreas rurais de Descoberto foram submetidas à extração de ouro, utilizando técnicas inadequadas de beneficiamento mineral. Em 2002 moradores locais constataram o aparecimento de mercúrio (Hg) metálico sobre a superfície dos solos, e em 2005 o perímetro crítico de contaminação foi delimitado. O presente trabalho pr...

Resumo O presente trabalho trata da avaliação preliminar do grau de contaminação por mercúrio, zinco e cobre em solos e sedimentos fluviais de fundo em uma área de garimpo de ouro abandonado na zona rural de Descoberto (sul de MG). Para tanto, os teores destes metais foram determinados por absorção atômica e comparados aos valores de referência re...