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Building future societies? A brief analysis of Braga’s school bus project
This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of implementing trans-
port 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 mobil-
ity. 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 mea-
sures 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.UIDB/00736/202