Andreia Souza Santos, Victor Hugo Abreu, Filipe Batista Ribeiro.

Abstract: Anualmente, o Ministério da Infraestrutura realiza o “Via Viva - Seminário Socioambiental em Infraestrutura de Transportes”, fórum que congrega atores diversos para a discussão socioambiental no escopo da infraestrutura de transportes, alinhado aos objetivos estratégicos e às Diretrizes de Sustentabilidade da Pasta.

Em 2022, o tema escolhido foi “Na Rota ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance): Oportunidades para o Setor de Infraestrutura de Transportes”, que objetiva:
i) fomentar o tema da sustentabilidade no ciclo de projeto, execução e operação de transportes;
ii) fortalecer e aperfeiçoar o debate sobre a sustentabilidade no setor de transportes no contexto brasileiro;
iii) mapear fatores e elementos necessários para a estruturação de projetos que inserem os fatores ESG no setor de infraestrutura de transportes; e
iv) estimular a divulgação de boas práticas do setor alinhadas aos fatores do padrão ESG.

Aliada ao evento, é promovida, anualmente, a chamada pública para submissão de artigos técnico-científicos que comporão a publicação do Via Viva (e-ISSN – 2675-2700) no respectivo ano. A presente publicação consiste na compilação de trabalhos técnicos submetidos ao VI Via Viva, do ano de 2022. Os trabalhos devem se relacionar aos temas do evento, incluindo aspectos de gestão socioambiental de infraestrutura de transportes ou apresentar resultados de estudos ou experiências profissionais sobre o setor de transportes.

Os artigos aqui publicados foram avaliados e aprovados por um Comitê Editorial formado por professores, pesquisadores e profissionais com amplo conhecimento nos temas abordados. Nesta edição, são apresentados 07 (sete) trabalhos, divididos em três eixos abordando cada fator do ESG. Dentre os autores, destacam-se professores, estudantes, pesquisadores, gestores públicos das entidades vinculadas ao Ministério da Infraestrutura e profissionais do setor.

A publicação busca consolidar, a partir dos trabalhos apresentados, parte do amplo espectro do ESG que envolve as políticas, planos e projetos de transportes, em um processo contínuo de aperfeiçoamento da agenda ambiental e climática, a ser incorporada de forma permanente por todos aqueles que atuam em transportes e setores correlatos.

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GONÇALVES, Daniel; GOES, George; D'AGOSTO, Márcio; ROVERE, Emilio. Development of Policy-Relevant Dialogues on Barriers and Enablers for the Transition to Low-Carbon Mobility in Brazil. Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16405.

Resumo: Establishing viable targets and pathways to achieve low-carbon mobility is proving to be a growing challenge, especially in emerging economies. Brazil has faced persistent economic and political crises, impacting current and future climate policies. The acceleration of resource exploitation and environmental degradation has increased the role of the transport sector in mitigating Brazilian emissions. Despite advances in instruments aimed at high-capacity infrastructure and the biodiesel and ethanol markets, electric mobility and other advanced biofuels, such as biokerosene and green diesel, are moving slowly. Part of this stems from severe technical, policy, and financial barriers that need to be addressed. This paper identifies the main barriers faced and the instruments needed to accelerate decarbonization in the Brazilian transport sector. To this purpose, a stakeholder-oriented approach is developed and applied to distill low-carbon opportunities and enablers over the next decade. This article reveals the important relationship between climate commitments, the different obstacles faced, and the possible consequences, taking different perspectives on appropriate reference points. By 2025, instruments aimed at electric mobility and public transport, although still scarce in current policies, will have greater potential for implementation. This contrasts with other advanced biofuels, which are not expected until the end of the decade.

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Resumo: The Journal of Urban Futures aims to encourage substantive research and generate knowledge for building sustainable urban futures, the backbone of a sustainable planet. It welcomes new knowledge about projecting, forecasting and backcasting urban sustainable development in individual cities and within urbanization processes.

The objectives of the journal are to highlight multi-level research from the neighborhood to the urban and global scale that addresses the future of livable, sustainable and resilient cities. Fundamental to the urban transformation is the decarbonization challenge to fight climate change, which involves the switch to renewable resources and energy efficiency in all urban infrastructure sectors. With urban planning at the core of the city (infra)structure, subjects can also include technological innovations such as the use of IoT for smarter and sharing urban solutions as well as socio-economic transformations that will influence circular economic activity, financial markets, internalization of externalities in production dynamics, economic and social urban resilience and sustainability.

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GHISOLFI, Verônica; TAVASSZY, Lóránt; CORREIA, Gonçalo; CHAVES, Gisele; RIBEIRO, Glaydston. Dynamics of freight transport decarbonisation: a conceptual model. Journal of Simulation

Resumo: As part of the global efforts to mitigate climate change, policymakers are designing measures to reduce the carbon emissions of the freight transport system. As global agreements for decarbonisation specify strict time windows, it is important to understand the speed at which the transport system is capable of changing. Our paper proposes a causal loop diagram based on System Dynamics that qualitatively maps the system’s causal and dynamic responses to five key decarbonisation strategies. As the main contribution, this conceptual model provided a broad overview of the freight system, formed by subsystems that interact with each other through feedback loops, forming its dynamic behaviour. Through this conceptual modelling effort, we can identify the rebound effects of policies over the whole system, which could defeat the desired decarbonisation results. The model pointed out policies and feedback loops as the dynamic levers to promote freight decarbonisation and influence the system’s dynamic responses.

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