What does it take to make the bicycle a viable mobility option in Brazilian cities?

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Sprawling urban footprints, high temperatures, rugged terrain, and a lack of safety. What are the pathways to promoting cycling as a mobility alternative in Brazilian cities? To explore this topic further, Caos Planejado hosts Glaucia Pereira, founder of Multiplicidade Mobilidade Urbana and a director and member of Cidadeapé, and Rosa Félix, a bicycle mobility researcher at the U-Shift laboratory.

Born in São Paulo, Glaucia Pereira é is an urban mobility specialist. She holds a bachelor's degree in Physics from USP and a master's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on quantitative methods, also from USP. She has thirteen years of experience in urban mobility, ten of which were spent in the research department of CET, the São Paulo Traffic Engineering Company. She is the founder of Multiplicidade Mobilidade Urbana and is a member and former director of Cidadeapé – Association for Pedestrian Mobility in São Paulo.

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Cite: Planejado, Caos. "What does it take to make the bicycle a viable mobility option in Brazilian cities?" [O que é preciso para viabilizar a bicicleta como opção de mobilidade nas cidades brasileiras?] 06 Jul 2026. ArchDaily. (Trans. Baratto, Romullo) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1127893/what-does-it-take-to-make-the-bicycle-a-viable-mobility-option-in-brazilian-cities> ISSN 0719-8884

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