Access to Opportunities Lab (AOP-Lab)

The Access to Opportunities Lab (AOP-Lab) is a research group based at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea), and which investigates urban mobility conditions and access to opportunities in Brazilian cities. The AOP-Lab conducts research and develops computational tools and data for spatial accessibility and urban planning, with a focus on social inequality and sustainable urban mobility.

Research topics

• Urban accessibility
• Sustainable mobility and transport emissions
• Active transportation
• Transportation equity, justice and social exclusion,
• Political economy of transportation
• Public policy evaluation and causal inference
• Urban form
• Segregation
• Spatial data science

Projects

The AOP-Lab is involved in several projects and partnerships with public and private institutions. More informantion here.