Camila Ramos

Transport-related social exclusion: A study on minimum standards and thresholds through the lens of accessibility

Camila is a DPhil student with the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment. She completed her Master in City Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering with a diploma in systems and transport, and a M.Sc. in Engineering, both from Universidad Católica de Chile. Previously, she worked as a transport consultant for the World Resources Institute and the Inter-American Development Bank. Additionally, she also held a research position at the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, and was a guest lecturer for the Land Use and Transportation course at MIT. Her doctoral research at the TSU focuses on defining transport accessibility standards from a Capabilities Approach perspective, and on exploring the implications of such standards on social exclusion with a special interest in the Latin American context.