Cristina Albuquerque
Bio
Cristina is the Urban Mobility Manager for WRI Brasil's Cities Program. She works to transform the transport system in Brazil's cities to cleaner and more efficient means. This increases the quality of public service and reduces environmental impacts.
Cristina provides advice and support to cities designing and implementing low-carbon, high efficient transport solutions and policies, including electrification of the transport sector, transport demand management, new sustainable mobility, among others. Cristina is also one of the WRI representatives in the BRT Center of Excellence.
Cristina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and a Master's degree in Transportation Systems from the same university. She also holds a Project Management Specialization at UFRGS.
Practice Areas
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Sustainable Urban Mobility
Helping cities design and implement efficient, high-quality, sustainable transport systems
Projects
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Accelerating Electric Bus Adoption in Colombia
Working directly with mid-sized Colombian cities to provide technical assistance around procurement, financing, operations, social inclusion and more. -
BRTdata.org, a global database for bus rapid transit
Interactive platform tracks the growth and evolution of high performance bus systems worldwide -
Bus Rapid Transit Center of Excellence
Improving the planning and implementation of BRT projects worldwide -
QualiÔnibus - Quality Public Transport
Systematic, continuous improvement and a focus on quality are key to avoid losing public transit customers to less efficient modes. -
Sustainable and Livable Cities Initiative
Building the foundations of our work with cities -
TUMI E-Bus Mission
This international coalition assists 20 cities in creating world-leading electric bus fleets and scaling e-bus adoption to hundreds more through city-to-city mentorship.
