Andrés Torres Gómez

Andrés is a research assistant in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Universidad de los Andes, where he obtained the status of Civil and Environmental Engineer. During his studies he has been deeply involved in all transportation matters, being a teacher’s assistant for the department’s only two undergraduate transportation subjects: Systems of Transportation, and Road Design. He also developed an undergraduate thesis degree project titled: Análisis con estudios previos e indicadores de TOD de la implementación y funcionamiento del Transmicable, para entender el rol de este sistema como generador de desarrollo (Analysis using previous studies and TOD indicators of the implementation and operation of the Transmicable system, to understand this system’s role as a development generator.) This project analyzed the functioning of Bogotá’s public cable car system, and the impacts it has had on land use, land value, walkability, and use of sustainable modes of transportation. Andrés’ research interests consist of transportation planning, public transportation policies and planning, demand modelling and projections, transport analysis, and study of transportation impacts, relating all these to social and environmental components. His main goal is to help make transportation systems safer, more efficient, and more sustainable, by maximizing its social, environmental, and technical standards and their development, using thorough research on all of the urban environment’s components.