Browsing by Author "Mora Vega, Rodrigo"

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    A bumpy ride: structural inequalities, quality standards, and institutional limitations affecting cycling infrastructure
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2022) Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio; Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Oyarzun, Gabriel; Vergara, Jaime; Vecchio, Giovanni; CEDEUS (Chile)
    Structural socio-economic and institutional limitations can affect the implementation of cycling infrastructure. More stringent cycling infrastructure standards aiming to solve deficiencies might exacerbate disparities, especially in poor districts with fragmentary governance. Using an audit and quantitative and spatial analysis of cycleways, this paper examines to what extent structural inequalities and governance issues affect the availability and quality of cycling infrastructure, considering new indicative and normative standards aiming at improving cycling infrastructure in Santiago, Chile. Our results show that the distribution of cycleways is unequal and only partially complies with national quality standards. All districts in the city have both high and low standard bicycle lanes, but since district finances have huge differences, this can lead to inequalities in cycle coverage and districts' capabilities to address current standard problems. This raises relevant challenges regarding governance and how to ensure an equitable distribution of cycling infrastructure in Global South cities.
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    Las autopistas urbanas concesionadas : una nueva forma de segregación.
    (2005) Greene, Margarita; Mora Vega, Rodrigo
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    De la casa al barrio
    (2014) Greene, Margarita; Link, Felipe; Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Figueroa Martínez, Cristhian
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    Development of 3D VGA tools : an application in a case of weak heritage in Valparaiso, Chile
    (2014) Culagovski Rubio, Rodrigo; Greene, Margarita; Mora Vega, Rodrigo; CEDEUS (Chile)
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    Implicancias en la actividad física y la salud del Programa CicloRecreoVía en Chile
    (2018) Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Greene, Margarita; Corado, M.; CEDEUS (Chile)
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    LA ARQUITECTURA DE LA DENSIDAD
    (2017) Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Greene, Margarita; Figueroa, Cristhian; Rothmann, Carlos
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    Looking ahead: a vision-based software for predicting pedestrian movement
    (2014) Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Astudillo, Hernán; Bravo Silva, Samuel
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    Outdoor Gyms in Santiago: Urban distribution and effects on physical activity
    (2017) Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Weisstaub, G.; Greene, Margarita; Herrmann, G.
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    Pandemic-related streets transformations: accelerating sustainable mobility transitions in Latin America
    (2021) Vecchio, Giovanni; Tiznado Aitken, Ignacio Andrés; Mora Vega, Rodrigo; CEDEUS (Chile)
    The COVID-19 pandemic and the need for physical distancing in public spaces have significant effects on sustainable mobility initiatives. Many cities around the world promoted temporary transformations of streets, redistributing road space to create emergency cycleways and expand sidewalks to allow the movement of people while granting a certain physical distance between people. While Europe and, to a lesser extent, North America have initially led these initiatives, Latin America has soon followed suit, without much of their technical experience, governance, resources and sometimes public acceptance for sustainable mobility. The paper examines if and how the major disruptive event posed by the COVID-19 has reconfigured sustainable mobility initiatives in Latin American cities. Interviewing key decision-makers, the paper reviews five initiatives across the region to examine the typology of interventions promoted and the spaces involved, the governance schemes that allowed them and the public acceptance towards such measures. The analysis demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic has fostered a faster adoption of sustainable mobility measures such as emergency cycleways, street pedestrianisations and other traffic calming initiatives, facilitating the creation of new coalitions and the public acceptance of these interventions thanks to the sense of urgency generated by the pandemic.
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    Persistence of walking in Chile: lessons for urban sustainability
    (2020) Herrmann-Lunecke, MG; Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Sagaris, Lake; CEDEUS (Chile)
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    Social Inclusion and Physical Activity in Ciclovia Recreativa Programs in Latin America
    (2021) Mejia-Arbelaez, Carlos; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Flores Castillo, Mónica; Truffello, Ricardo; Martínez, Lina; Medina, Catalina; Guaje, Oscar; Pinzón Ortiz, José David; Useche, Andres F.; Rojas-Rueda, David; Delclòs-Alió, Xavier; CEDEUS (Chile)
    Ciclovia Recreativa is a program in which streets are closed off to automobiles so that people have a safe and inclusive space for recreation and for being physically active. The study aims were: (1) to compare participant's spatial trajectories in four Ciclovia Recreativa programs in Latin America (Bogota, Mexico City, Santiago de Cali, and Santiago de Chile) according to socioeconomic characteristics and urban segregation of these cities; and (2) to assess the relationship between participants' physical activity (PA) levels and sociodemographic characteristics. We harmonized data of cross-sectional studies including 3282 adults collected between 2015 and 2019. We found the highest mobility for recreation in Bogota, followed closely by Santiago de Cali. In these two cities, the maximum SES (socioeconomic status) percentile differences between the neighborhood of origin and the neighborhoods visited as part of the Ciclovia use were 33.58 (p-value < 0.001) and 30.38 (p-value < 0.001), respectively, indicating that in these two cities, participants were more likely to visit higher or lower SES neighborhoods than their average SES-of-neighborhood origin. By contrast, participants from Mexico City and Santiago de Chile were more likely to stay in geographic units similar to their average SES-of-origin, having lower overall mobility during leisure time: maximum SES percentile difference 1.55 (p-value < 0.001) and -0.91 (p-value 0.001), respectively. PA levels of participants did not differ by sex or SES. Our results suggest that Ciclovia can be a socially inclusive program in highly unequal and segregated urban environments, which provides a space for PA whilefacilitat physical proximity, exposure to new communities and environments, and interactions between different socioeconomic groups.
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    Towards a sustainable city: Applying urban renewal incentives according to the social and urban characteristics of the area
    (2017) Greene, Margarita; Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Figueroa, Cristhian; Waintrub, Natan; Ortúzar Salas, Juan de Dios; CEDEUS (Chile)
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    Understanding cyclists’ conflicts in the streets of a Latin American metropolis
    (2024) Mora Vega, Rodrigo; Waintrub Santibáñez, Natan; Figueroa Martínez, Cristhian; Horta, Amarilis; CEDEUS (Chile)
    Promoted by most governments as a sustainable form of transportation, cycling is surging worldwide. Despite the positive impacts of cycling, conflicts between cyclists and other street users such as pedestrians, cars and buses have increased, especially in countries lacking proper cycling infrastructure. This paper aims to understand a series of conflicts experienced by cyclists in Santiago de Chile, where cycling has expanded rapidly in the last fifteen years. To do so, three focus groups were held with cyclists having different levels of experience. The participants were asked to describe the main conflicts with other modes of transport and road users, as well as the coping strategies employed to deal with these conflicts. An inductive analysis ended with four categories related to cyclists’ conflicts in the streets and two related to strategies and lessons dealing with motorised vehicle drivers and other cyclists. The analysis indicates that the unequal distribution of road space negatively influences cyclists’ experiences, who perceive themselves as being threatened constantly by overtaking cars in close proximity, as well as by different forms of verbal and sometimes physical aggression. It indicates that cyclists develop strategies to mitigate conflicts, ranging from making themselves visible at all times, to making use of bodily gestures. However, conflicts can still escalate. The results suggest that, in auto-centric urban contexts, cycling is a challenging chore that happens surrounded by the sensation of having fragile entitlements.