Improving Urban Mobility: A Project for Brazil
October 14 - 17, 2015 About Brazil Brazil has an urban population of over 160 million people with an urbanization rate of 84%. In 2013, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff proposed a referendum to invest $25 billion into public transportation to improve urban mobility [1]. With these funds, the National Policy on Urban Mobility was created which sets guidelines and tools to develop sustainable urban mobility plans [3]. With the urban growth rate at an all time high, it is impe
Promoting Human Rights: A Project for Kazakhstan
October 6 - 10, 2015 About Kazakhstan This country is home to a variety of landscape including energy rich lowlands, mountains, steppes and an industrialized northern region that holds potential for economic development [3]. About 70% of public infrastructure in Kazakhstan is inaccessible to people with disabilities [2]. The government has recently taken initiative to focus their attention on bettering the lives of the disabled. In 2008, 500,000 people with disabilities were
