Ligia Conceicao (7F17-99F0-FC82)

Curriculum Vitae

Lígia Conceição is an experienced professional specializing in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and data analysis. As a Senior ITS Consultant at ARMIS Group, she takes the lead of the C-Roads project Working Group (WG) 4, supporting the implementation of ITS and C-ITS policies in urban environments. Notably, she coordinates the NAPCORE WG2, contributing to the development of National Access Points across Europe for interoperability and harmonization. Additionally, as an Invited Assistant Professor, she shares expertise in road design, transportation engineering and planning. With a background in Civil Engineering (2014) and a Ph.D. in Transport Systems (2020) developed at MIT, TU Delft, and FEUP, her research used AI focused on optimizing transport planning and traffic operations for automated vehicles in urban areas. Lígia is dedicated to driving innovation and sustainable solutions for urban mobility.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ligia Conceicao

Citation names

Conceicao, Ligia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 7F17-99F0-FC82
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0526-0691

Email addresses

ligia@fe.up.pt (Professional)
ligia.conceicao@armis.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CXqB_-IAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT (Scholar)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ligiaconceicao/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering - Transport Engineering
Engineering and Technology - Other Engineering and Technologies
Engineering and Technology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Advanced (C1)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)
Chinese	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)		Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2020 - 2020 Concluded	Formação de Monitores do Projeto FEUP (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	19
2019 - 2020 Concluded	Competências transversais para a engenharia: formação pedagógica (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	14
2015 - 2020 Concluded	Sistemas de Transportes (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Optimum road network design for the deployment of automated vehicles in urban areas " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/12 Concluded	TRAIL courses Fall 2017: Theories & Methods (Outros) Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
2017/12 Concluded	TRAIL courses Fall 2017: From Horse to Porsche: Innovations in Transport & Logistics (Outros) Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
2015 - 2016 Concluded	Competências Transversais: Gestão do Tempo e Organização Pessoal (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	18
2009 - 2014 Concluded	Engenharia Civil (Mestrado) Major in Área de especialização: Vias de Comunicação Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Projeto de Autoestradas do México: Comparação com o Caso Português" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15
2009 Concluded	Científico Humanístico de Ciências e Tecnologias (Ensino secundário) Escola Secundária Morgado Mateus, Portugal	17

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/11 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal

2022/01 - 2023/11	Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
2015 - 2023	Researcher (Research)	Centro de Investigação do Território Transportes e Ambiente, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/10 - 2020/03	Researcher (Research)	Instituto da Construção, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
2018/02 - 2018/09	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, United States
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, United States
2017/06 - 2017/12	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
	Technische Universiteit Delft Faculteit Civiele Techniek en Geowetenschappen, Netherlands
2014/10/01 - 2015/06/30	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho Centro de Território Ambiente e Construção, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/10 - 2023/04	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
2021/02/01 - 2023/02/28	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/09 - 2020/12	Tutor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/04 - Current	Consultora ITS - Intelligent Transportation Systems	Armis, Sistemas de Informação, Lda., Portugal

2020/07 - 2021/03/31	Consultora Senior de Transportes	Optimização e Planeamento de Transportes, Portugal
	Optimização e Planeamento de Transportes, Portugal
2014/02/17 - 2014/06/26	Curricular Trainee	GEG, Gabinete de Estruturas e Geotecnia Lda. , Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2013/07/15 - 2013/09/20	PEJENE 2013 Summer Trainee	Mota-Engil, Engenharia e Construção SA, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/01 - 2022/11	DynamiCITY: Fostering Dynamic Adaptation of Smart Cities to Cope with Crises and Disruptions NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000073 Volunteer / Unfunded Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2015/10/01 - 2019/09/30	Optimum road network design for the deployment of automated vehicles in urban areas PD/BD/113760/2015 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2015/01 - 2015/06	H2020 MORE-CONNECT project: UMINHO/BI/101/2015 Research Fellow	Horizon Europe Concluded
2014/10 - 2014/12	Strategic Project - UI 4047 - 2014 Pest-OE/ECI/UI4047/2014 Science and Technology Management Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/10 - Current	NAPCORE (National Access Point Coordination Organisation for Europe) MOVE/B4/SUB/2020-123/SI2.85223 Researcher	Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport Ongoing
2020/07 - Current	Cooperative Streets (C-Streets) INEA/CEF/TRAN/M2018/1796634 Researcher Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes IP, Portugal Tis.pt Consultores em Transportes Inovação e Sistemas SA, Portugal Armis, Sistemas de Informação, Lda., Portugal	European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency Ongoing
2020/07 - 2023/12	C-ROADS Portugal project INEA/CEF/TRAN/M2016/13613245 Science and Technology Management Fellow Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes IP, Portugal Tis.pt Consultores em Transportes Inovação e Sistemas SA, Portugal Armis, Sistemas de Informação, Lda., Portugal	European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency Concluded
2020/07 - 2023/08	VOXPOP Portuguese Project UIA04-053 Supervisor Armis, Sistemas de Informação, Lda., Portugal	Urban Innovative Actions Concluded
2020 - 2023	Enhanced Regional EU-ASEAN Dialogue Instrument (E-READI): Dialogue on Intelligent Transport Systems E-READI C-ITS Consultant & Research Fellow Armis, Sistemas de Informação, Lda., Portugal	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH Concluded
2020/07 - 2020/12	EU EIP Platform 2014-EU-TM-0317-S Researcher Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes IP, Portugal Tis.pt Consultores em Transportes Inovação e Sistemas SA, Portugal Armis, Sistemas de Informação, Lda., Portugal	European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency Concluded
2019/10 - 2020/03	Eficiência, Produtividade e Impacto Regional dos Sistemas de Infraestruturas de Transportes em Portugal IST 30/2019 Researcher	Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment UID/Multi/04427/2019 Centro de Investigação do Território Transportes e Ambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Eduardo Correa; Conceicao, Ligia; Alvaro Costa. "When Automation Is Not Enough: Combining Technology and Policy to Reduce Traffic Congestion in Florianopolis". Paper presented in Euro Working Group on Transportation (EWGT) 2020 conference, Paphos, 2020. In press Conceicao, Ligia; Rossetti, Rosaldo J. F.. "Multivariate modelling for autonomous vehicles: Research trends in perspective". 2016. 10.1109/itsc.2016.7795536
Journal article	Lígia Conceição; Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia; Bart van Arem; José Pedro Tavares. "The Road Network Design Problem for the Deployment of Automated Vehicles (RNDP-AVs): A Nonlinear Programming Mathematical Model". Infrastructures (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures9010012. 10.3390/infrastructures9010012 Conceição, Lígia; Montenegro, João; Barradas, Pedro; Soares, Sónia; Bolelli, Alfredo; Tiago, Ricardo. "C-ITS Services in Urban Environments: European State of Practice". Transportation Research Procedia 78 (2024): 273-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2024.02.035. 10.1016/j.trpro.2024.02.035 Cardoso, V.E.M.; Simões, M.L.; Ramos, N.M.M.; Almeida, R.M.S.F.; Almeida, M.; Conceição, L.; Vitor E. M. Cardoso; et al. "Impact of atmospherical stability and intra-hour variation of meteorological data in the variability of building air change rates". Building and Environment 207 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85118756380&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108528 Ligia Conceicao; Jose Pedro Tavares. "Envisioning Transport Policy in a Future With Autonomous Vehicles". IEEE Potentials 40 1 (2021): 38-42. https://doi.org/10.1109/MPOT.2020.2991740. 10.1109/MPOT.2020.2991740 Conceição, Lígia; Correia, Gonçalo; Tavares, José Pedro. "Automated vehicles (AV) dedicated networks and their effects on the traveling of conventional vehicle drivers". Transportation Research Procedia 52 (2021): 653-660. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2021.01.078. 10.1016/j.trpro.2021.01.078 Conceicao, Ligia; Conceição, Lígia; Correia, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida; Tavares, José Pedro. "The Reversible Lane Network Design Problem (RL-NDP) for Smart Cities with Automated Traffic". Sustainability (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12031226. 10.3390/su12031226 Conceicao, Ligia. "A Review of Policies on Geometric Design of Freeways: Portugal and United States of America". U.Porto Journal of Engineering (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2183-6493_003.001_0002. 10.24840/2183-6493_003.001_0002 Lígia Conceição; Carlos Rodrigues. "A Comparative Analysis of Freeway Design in Portugal and Mexico". U.Porto Journal of Engineering (2018): https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-6493_002.003_0003. 10.24840/2183-6493_002.003_0003 Conceicao, Ligia. "The deployment of automated vehicles in urban transport systems: a methodology to design dedicated zones". Transportation Research Procedia (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2017.12.025. 10.1016/j.trpro.2017.12.025
Thesis / Dissertation	Lígia Conceição Pereira. "Optimum road network design for the deployment of automated vehicles in urban areas". PhD, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/127635. "Projeto de autoestradas do México: comparação com o caso português". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/75368.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/05	Special Interest Session (SIS 2) focused on “The future of mobility data exchange in Europe – ready, set, go! (part 1)”, talk about the “European Access Point idea and Interoperability demonstrators”	ITS European Congress Lisbon ERTICO (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11	“Interoperability and level of service of National Access Points”, talk about “ The relevance of Alternative Fuels Data in the National Access Points”	NAPCORE Mobility Data Days in Paris 2022 French Ministry of Transport - Paris-La Défense (Paris, France)
2022/05/09	"Quando podemos circular num carro "autónomo" em Portugal? Como vai ser?"	Pint of Science 2022 School of Science of the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2022/05	Special Interest Session (SIS 65) “C-ITS city forum: drives and challenges for C-ITS urban deployment”, talk about an “overview of the implementation status of C-ITS harmonized services across the European Cities”	2022 ITS European Congress in Toulouse ERTICO (Toulouse, France)
2022	Sustainable Mobility Services	Congresso de Engenharia de Serviços e Gestão - CESG University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2020/07/23	The impact of reversible lanes in the main freeway (VCI) of Porto city	GITMob - Grupo de Interesse em transportes e mobilidade Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)
2020/07/16	The Reversible Lane Network Design Problem (RL-NDP) for Smart Cities with Automated Traffic	GITMob - Grupo de Interesse em transportes e mobilidade Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)
2020/07/16	“The Reversible Lane Network Design Problem (RL-NDP) for Smart Cities with Automated Traffic”	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)
2020/07	“The impact of reversible lanes in the main freeway (VCI) of Porto city”	GITMob meeting no.28 - Grupo de Interesse em transportes e mobilidade Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)
2019/09/30	The future of smart cities with automated vehicles: benefits from reversible lanes in a connected traffic control system	MIT Portugal conference 2019 Universidade dos Açores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2019/06/06	How transport planning in urban regions shall be addressed to integrate automated vehicles reality: a mixed traffic analysis	NECTAR conference, Towards Human Scale Cities - Open and Happy University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2019/05/02	The impact of dedicated roads for automated vehicles in urban transport networks	GITMob - Grupo de Interesse em transportes e mobilidade Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)
2019/01/08	Automated vehicles in urban environments: dedicated roads as a transport planning strategy	GET 16th Conference GET Grupo de Estudos em Transportes (Penela, Portugal)
2018/10/26	The Deployment of Automated Vehicles in Urban Environments: Traffic Strategies in a Safety Perspective	31st ICTCT (International Co-operation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety) Conference Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)
2018/10/24	Automated Vehicles and the Transport Planning in Urban Environments	CITTA 11th Annual Conference on Planning Research: o Espaço Lusófono e o Futuro das Cidades Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto)
2017/11/13	The Deployment of Automated Vehicles: Dedicated Zones as a Urban Planning Strategy	Spanish Young Statisticians and Operational Researchers Meeting (SYSORM) 2017 conference University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2017/11/09	The deployment of automated vehicles: a model to design dedicated roadways in urban centers	TRAIL PhD Congress 2017 University of Utrecht (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2017/02/21	The Deployment of Automated Vehicles in Urban Transport Systems	14º Encontro do Grupo de Estudos em Transportes GET - Grupo de Estudos em Transportes (Fátima, Portugal)
2016/11/17	The Deployment of Automated Vehicles in Urban Transport Systems	CITTA General Assembly and 1st PhD Student Workshop Universidade de Coimbra - FCTUC (Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09 - Current	Dissertation’s title not yet definitive. Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/10 - Current	O impacto dos veículos autónomos nos normativos rodoviários Co-supervisor	Ciências de Engenharia, orientação em Engenharia Civil (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/07	Análise dos Impactos dos Veículos Autônomos em Ambientes Urbanos - O caso de Florianópolis Co-supervisor	Planeamento e Projecto do Ambiente Urbano (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/06/10 - 2019/06/14	Strategic planning and decision making for entrepreneurial ventures. Sponsored by MIT Portugal, Dava Newman and Douglas Hart. Workshop	International Workshop on Innovation (IWI) June 10-14, 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
2019/01/22 - 2019/01/25	Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Sponsored by: Harvard University, Dean of Students, Katherine O'Dair Seminar	Common Purpose Global Leadership Experience Boston Jan 22-25 2019 Harvard College, United States

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2021/11/12	Urban Transport Evaluation Using Knowledge Extracted from Social Media (Thesis) Main arguer	Francisco André Barreiros Murçós (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/10 - 2023/04	Technical Drawing and 3D Modeling	Advanced Building Techniques (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
2021/09 - 2023/02	Territory and Transport Engineering	Engenharia Civil (Mestrado)	Universidade do Porto Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/07	Vias de Comunicação 2	Engenharia Civil (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/01	Projecto FEUP	Engenharia Civil (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2018/06/10 - 2018/06/10	Portuguese Researchers at MIT	International Research, MIT and Portugal cooperation

Distinctions

Award

2021	3rd best Traineeship in the North Region of Portugal 2021¿ Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal
2019	2nd Place on the Portuguese National ClimateLaunchpad 2019 Climate-KIC Holding BV, Netherlands

Other distinction

2019	International Workshop on Innovation at MIT - full sponsorship MIT Portugal Program, Portugal
2019	Common Purpose GLE (Global Leadership Experience) Boston 2019 - full sponsorship (10 places) Common Purpose, United Kingdom
2017	APDIO conference sponsorship (2 places) - SYSORM 2017 conference APDIO - Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Portugal
2015	MIT Portugal Program PhD Scholarship (10 places) MIT Portugal Program, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal