Management, Planning, and Technologies Applied to Urban Engineering

This research line aims to promote the development and evaluation of management and planning models and tools for the urban and regional environment, through the study of policies, programs, and projects covered by Urban Engineering.

Urbanism
The research line in Urbanism seeks to develop research on broad and integrative topics that relate public policies, infrastructure, and urban space. In this case, the production of the city is discussed through analyses of social housing, integrated and sustainable urban planning, and case studies of Master Plans for small and medium-sized cities, and even metropolitan regions, as well as the application of urban planning tools.
Transportation
The research line dedicated to the Management, Planning, and Technologies in transportation seeks to track the transformations of transportation modes used in cities, focusing primarily on the management of urban mobility systems, correlated with the development of smart cities.
It is emphasized that, above all, the research developed in this line values the integration between different transportation topics with engineering, architecture, and urbanism, as it is practically impossible to dissociate them.
Sanitation
Due to professional demand, it was observed the need for PPGEU to include aspects related to urban services, incorporating analyses of quality management tools, the use of indicators and management methods, public participation in decision-making, sector planning, as well as the development of software programs to assist in the management of water and urban waste.
Geotechnics and Geoprocessing
The research line in Geotechnics and Geoprocessing has, since its inception, maintained a strong integration between geological geotechnical mapping techniques and geoprocessing tools, with researchers from the fields of Geology and Civil Engineering.
Initially, the focus was on urban and environmental planning, expanding to regional geo-environmental cartography and geographic information systems (GIS) applied to various urban themes.