Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
The research activities to be developed by the Research Area of Competence of “Territorial Planning and Governance” (TPG) under the 2015-2020 Strategic Programme will be focused on the evaluation of plans, policies, development processes, sustainability aspects, and territory quality. The research covered mainly:
(i) the study of land-use patterns in urban and regional context;
(ii) urban environmental management - noise and air pollution assessment, modelling and abatement - dynamics of urban and infrastructures systems, especially water and waste-water diffusion;
(iii) mitigation models for the study of the quality of urban environment, particularly noise and air pollution, and climate change; sustainable urban mobility policies and models, mainly the establishment of routes for soft modes;
(iv) simulation and evaluation of territorial and urban processes combining advanced tools of spatial analysis within geographic information systems, particularly the study of urban and regional systems (urban environment, urban structure and land-use patterns, activities location, accessibility and mobility at an urban and regional scale).
Paulo Ribeiro, Fernando Fonseca & Paulo Santos (2020) Sustainability assessment of a bus system in a mid-sized municipality, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 63:2, 236-256, DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2019.1577224
Gabriel José Cabral Dias & Paulo Jorge Gomes Ribeiro (2020): Cycle Highways: a new concept of infrastructure, European Planning Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2020.1752154
"Micro-simulation of the Impact of Different Speeds on Safety Road Travel and Urban Travel Time: Case Study in the City of Guimarães" by Paulo J. G. Ribeiro, Carlos M. C. Araújo, Luís A. P. J. Gonçalves, Gabriel J. C. Dias, Flávio J. C. Cunto, has been published in the WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 15, 2019, Art. #33, pp. 297-310.
Harley Largo, Paulo J. G. Ribeiro. (2019) A Bus Demand Model for Low-Density Territories in Continental Portugal. International Journal of Transportation Systems, 4, 8-17
Daniel Souto Rodrigues, Fernando Fonseca, Paulo Ribeiro. (2019) A Multi-Criteria Model to Define Intervention Priority Levels for Traffic Signs. International Journal of Transportation Systems, 4, 1-7
Alves J.A., Silva L.T., Remoaldo P. (2019) The Impacts of Exposure to Low Frequencies in the Human Auditory System—A Methodological Proposal. In: Ray K., Sharan S., Rawat S., Jain S., Srivastava S., Bandyopadhyay A. (eds) Engineering Vibration, Communication and Information Processing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 478. Springer, Singapore
Scalabrini, E. C. B., Remoaldo, P. C., & Lourenço, J. M. (2018). Imagem Turística sob o Ponto de Vista dos Residentes: O Caso De Joinville-SC, Brasil/Tourism Image Towards Residents’ Perception: The Case of Joinville-SC, Brazil. ROSA DOS VENTOS-Turismo e Hospitalidade, 10(2)
L.T. Silva , F. Fonseca , D. Rodrigues & A. Campos (2017): Assessing the influence of urban geometry on noise propagation by using the sky view factor, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2017.1319804
Paulo Ribeiro, Fernando Fonseca, Carolina Neiva, Tiziana Bardi & Júlia M.
Lourenço (2018): An integrated approach towards transforming an industrial park into an ecoindustrial
park: the case of Salaise-Sablons, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management,
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2017.1300576
Ligia T.Silva and João P. Monteiro / Procedia Engineering 161 ( 2016 ) 2046 – 2052
L. T. Silva, et al., Int. J. Sus. Dev. Plann. Vol. 11, No. 6(2016) 949-958
Freitas E., Tinoco J., Soares F., Costa J., Cortez P., Pereira P. (2015). Modelling tyre-road noise with data mining techniques, Archives of Acoustics, Vol 40, No 4.
Elisabete Arsenio , Paulo Ribeiro (2015), The Economic Assessment of Health Benefits of Active Transport, inMaria Attard , Yoram Shiftan (ed.) Sustainable Urban Transport (Transport and Sustainability, Volume 7)Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.1 - 22
The Laboratory resources support advancing cross-disciplinary research in territorial planning and land use. The main applications are in models for data analysis and spatial networks for decision support systems, particularly in the evaluation of parameters of urban environmental comfort, accessibility studies, and urban mobility. Given the spatial nature of the issues under research, geographic information systems are the main computational resource. There are also several other support equipment to collect data, such as GPS equipment.
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt