Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DATA

Cristina Pereira de Sousa

PROFESSIONAL SITUATION

Senior Technician

ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

Master´s Degree in Urban Studies and Territorial Management, in the “Instituto Superior Técnico”, Technical University of Lisbon, with a Master Dissertation “The Soft Modes in Urban Mobility” (2009).

1stDegree in Urban Planning, in the “Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias” (2001).

FUNCTIONS AND RELEVANT PUBLIC OFFICES

Senior Technician at LNEC - Technical Support to Science and Technology - Development, since 2009.

2nd class Technical Officer - Technical Support to Science and Technology, between 2008 and 2009.

Technical Officer Trainee - Technical Support to Science and Technology, in 2007.

1st class technician - Technical Support to Science and Technology - Experimentation, between 2006 and 2007.

2nd class technician - Technical Support to Science and Technology - Experimentation, between 2002 and 2006.

Professional technician, Experimenter Professional Technician Career, between 1996 and 2002.

Technical Fellow between 1992 and 1996.

AREAS OF RESEARCH/INTEREST

· Transportation and Environment

· Geographic Information Systems

· Traffic and Road Safety

· Urban Planning

· Urban Mobility

ACTIVITY DEVELOPED

Has developed her activity since her admission in LNEC in 1992 in different projects in the Planning, Traffic and Safety Unit of the Transportation Department, namely:

· Implementation of quality management software “Innovway” in UETRAF- Road Traffic Equipments and Analysis Laboratory of “Laboratório de Ensaios e Metrologia of LNEC (LNEC-EM)”.

· Coordination functions, as well as responsible for the metrology, the informatics and equipment of the UETRAF - Road Traffic Equipments and Analysis Laboratory of the “Laboratório de ensaios e Metrologia of LNEC (LNEC-EM)” (previous LABTRAF – Road Traffic Laboratory).

· Vectorisation of figures in various formats and support for the editorial review of the booklets within the scope of the study “Normative Document for application to urban streets’”

· Translation of the contents into Portuguese of the website for the European project “SaferAfrica”

· Geocoding of road accidents for the Lisbon Road network in the project “Road Safety analysis of the Lisbon Road Network”. This study was developed for the years 2008-2011.

· Identification and geocoding of vehicles in sequential aerial photographs taken on the road network under of the PhD Thesis named “Probabilistic Safety Analysis Using Traffic Microscopic Simulation”.

· Collaboration in the accidents rates estimative, traffic behavior and road geometry characterization, speed measurement and time gap between vehicles, for the study “Study on the relations between road characteristics, traffic speed and accidents”.

· Collaboration in the field tests and exploitation, manipulation, data processing, under the following projects and studies:

- European project “Trendline - Road Safety Performance Indicators”.

- European “Baseline project – Harmonized Measurement of Road Safety Key Performance Indicators”.

- “National Road Safety Strategy: Vision Zero 2030”.

- “Road Safety Inspection of the Almirante Reis Avenue’ cycle lane”.

- “Evaluation of the rail passenger transport service provided by Fertagus on the north-south axis”.

- “Comparative analysis of technological transport solutions for a cost-efficient Mondego mobility system”.

- “Elaboration of the proposal for Angola’s POOTN”.

- “A22 Annual Safety Report Audit” (years 2009-2016).

- “A27 And A28 Annual Safety Report Audit. (Years 2011-2016).

- Study “Critérios de segurança para área adjacente à faixa de rodagem na Rede Rodoviária Nacional”.

- “Identification of High Expected Crash Frequency Sites on the Portuguese National Road Network (between 2006 and 2012)”, for the “Sites Detected on Dual Carriageway Roads” and “Sites Detected on Single Carriageway Roads”.

- “Sustainable Mobility Project”.

- “Estimated frequency of road accidents in Urban Environment considering traffic volumes of pedestrian”.

- “Comparative analysis of accidents in Lisboa and other urban areas of the country”.

- “Study of Engineering Measures for Road Safety Improvement”.

- “Evaluation of Driver Behaviour Adjustements, After the Application of Marker Posts on the Center Line of a Stretch of EN125 Road (km 97, 0 a 101, 8)”.

- “Impact of Traffic and Safety Measures on Driver Behaviour on the IP5 Road”.

- European project – “Safestar – Safety Standards for Road Design and Redesign”.

- Road transport environmental and territorial impacts.

- “Traffic characteristics on selected links of Brisa’s motorway network”,

- “Traffic Census at the National Roads Network”, Years of 2000 and 2001.

- “Drivers’ Speeds on Portuguese Roads” Years of 2000, 2002 and 2004.

- “Evaluation of unsignalised leveled intersections, on interurban roads”.

- “Detection of Accident Blackspots on the National Road Network”. In the period 1991-1995 and the period 1999-2003.

- “Safety Analysis of the IP4 Road between Kilometers 58,800 and 101,900 (Nó de Geraldes - Nó de Vila Real/Norte)”.