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Building Future Societies? A Brief Analysis of Braga’s School Bus Project

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This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of implementing transport policies that meet home to school (and vice versa) mobility needs of children and young people. Over the last few years families’ mobility has been given increasing attention. One of the most investigated aspects is home to work mobility. Nowadays there is an urgent need to study and propose intervention measures regarding children’s mobility to school. In fact, studies show that the car is the preferred mode of transportation in Portugal. This trend has undoubtedly negative social, environmental and health consequences. Based on an evaluation study on the School Bus project in Braga (a research- intervention activity of BUILD-Braga Urban Innovation Laboratory Demonstrator), this paper discusses the difficulties in implementing sustainable mobility initiatives, pointing out anticipatory measures that can be taken in medium-sized cities in order to stop the expansion of children’s transportation by car, and give them back spaces in the cities.

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    Braga Urban Innovation Laboratory Demonstrator (BUILD) is a project of the Municipality of Braga with the following scientific partners: University of Minho, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and Centre for Computer Graphics; funded by the Fundo Ambiental - Ministry of the Environment.

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Funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, within the UID/CCI/00736/2019 project scope. Funded by Fundo Ambiental, project BUILD-Braga Urban Innovation Laboratory Demonstrator.

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  1. Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Emília Araújo, Márcia Silva & Rita Ribeiro

  2. Municipality of Braga, Braga, Portugal

    Filipa Corais

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  1. Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction, CTAC, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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  2. Communication and Society Research Centre, CECS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  3. Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory, Lab2PT, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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Araújo, E., Silva, M., Ribeiro, R., Corais, F. (2020). Building Future Societies? A Brief Analysis of Braga’s School Bus Project. In: Pereira, P., Ribeiro, R., Oliveira, I., Novais, P. (eds) Society with Future: Smart and Liveable Cities. SC4Life 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45293-3_11

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