Transport and equity in Latin America: Lessons and ways forward from Bogotá

The event will include a keynote presentation from Professor Bocarejo, who will reflect upon challenges and opportunities for sustainable and equitable transport, drawing from his experience leading the city’s transport agenda between 2016 and 2019. Juan Pablo’s presentation will be followed by a brief commentary from Dr Valentina Montoya, Senior Researcher in Gender and Mobility at the Transport Studies Unit of Oxford University, and a roundtable dialogue around the challenges and opportunities for public transport, financing of transport infrastructure and services, and sorting local connectivity, among other topics, chaired by Dr Daniel Oviedo, Associate Professor at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit of UCL.

Chair 

Dr Daniel Oviedo, Associate Professor, DPU UCL

Speakers

Professor Juan Pablo Bocarejo, former Mobility Secretary for Bogotá (2016-2019) and Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Universidad de los Andes

Dr Valentina Montoya, Senior Researcher in Gender and Mobility, University of Oxford