Anabela Salgueiro Narciso Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra and member of CITTA - Center for Research in Territory, Transport and Environment. (https://citta.fe.up.pt/research-team/ribeiro-anabela). Due to a multidisciplinary training, he develops research and teaching work in both Engineering Sciences and Technologies (with an emphasis on Civil Engineering, with an emphasis on Transport Engineering) and Social Sciences (with an emphasis on Economic and Social Geography, with an emphasis on Planning of Transport and Social Aspects of Transport). She currently develops several lines of research around Sustainable Urban Development, and Transport Planning and Sustainable Mobility. These topics include Urban Design and Traffic Calming, Public and Collective Transport and Social Inclusion, Planning and Implementation of Active Transport Modes (cycling and pedestrian), Collaborative Planning in Urban Planning Processes, Municipal Urban Planning and Management, Sustainable Neighborhood Indicators , Sustainable Mobility Indicators, Modeling the Demand for Transport Systems, Territorial Analysis and Econometrics, Electric Mobility, Inclusive Mobility and Shared Mobility. She has been teaching since 1997 in various disciplines (always related to Urban Planning or Transport Planning), on Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate courses, mainly in the Department of Civil Engineering at FCTUC. She also coordinates a new degree called 'Management of Sustainable and Smart Cities' at DEC. These lines of research combine and interconnect in several works, giving rise to the publication of several articles and book chapters with wide international recognition (https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-4716 -979X ). He has developed and supervised several doctoral theses on different topics in the context of Sustainable Mobility and Planning (having contributed to the successful completion of four of these theses), recently more focused on Active Modes (Pedestrians and Bicycles and Sustainable Neighborhoods). She participated in several European and national projects as a researcher. She highlights the role of Principal Investigator in the MOBI-AGE Project (FCT-MIT) related to the promotion of inclusive transport systems and urban areas. She actively participates in the Commission for the Sustainable Campus of the EfS Initiative at the University of Coimbra (https://www.uc.pt/efs) and in the Sustainable Campus Network (http://www.redecampussustentavel.pt/).
Present and future research interests are markedly multidisciplinary and integrated, although benefiting from concrete and specialized analysis techniques such as statistical analysis of urban and transport data – econometrics and factor analysis, or multi-criteria and multi-objective analysis to find the best problem solutions complex or even discrete choice models to characterize demand for transport modes. These interests focus on promoting a sustainable balance between Urban Planning and Transport Planning. In this way, ensuring more functional cities, with good air quality and access to basic needs, and which provide conditions for healthier and happier citizens. He is also interested in innovative professional and pedagogical approaches, both socially and technologically, that enhance more advanced levels of perception of the mechanisms that can lead to these balances. Among these approaches are the use of advanced digital technologies and participatory approaches, which allow us to think about a city on a human scale in a multidisciplinary and interactive way. In this way, ensuring that Goal 11 (Making cities and communities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) in the context of the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is largely achieved. This set of research interests and concerns converge in her recent tasks as Coordinator of the Degree in Management of Sustainable and Smart Cities at DEC at FCTUC, which is in its 2nd year of edition, with signs of success.
