About
Tânia Fontes is an FCT researcher at INESC TEC. Her area of ??expertise is urban mobility, focusing in particular on the assessment of the environmental impacts of mobility. Her research interests include the areas of last mile logistics, transport policy assessment, data science and decision support systems design. Tânia has led several research projects in the area of ??passenger and cargo mobility, particularly in urban spaces (opti-MOVES and e-LOG). Besides these, she has actively collaborated on other research projects (eg Seamless Mobility, SmartDecision, CIVITAS-ELAN), consultancy projects (eg VoxPop), and Cost actions (eg ARTS, TEA, TRANSITS). In 2016, she spent 6 months in Beijing to study the impacts of transport policies on the city's air quality. She regularly publishes in journals in the field of transport and environment. Tânia holds a PhD in Sciences Applied to the Environment from the University of Aveiro (2010). She also has a degree in Computer Engineering (ISEP, 2007) and Environmental Engineering (UFP, 2001).