Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: BERNARDO LUIZ COSTA DE AZEVEDO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : BERNARDO LUIZ COSTA DE AZEVEDO
DATE: 25/06/2026
TIME: 11:00
LOCAL: Ambiente virtual
TITLE:

The Right to Urban Mobility in the Era of Smart Cities: Regulation, Guarantees, and Legal Challenges

KEY WORDS:

Urban Mobility. Smart Cities. Right to Transportation. Urban Regulation. Data Protection.

PAGES: 107
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

The right to urban mobility constitutes a fundamental guarantee connected to Urban Law, city planning, and the realization of other social rights, such as health, education, work, leisure, and participation in urban life. In the Brazilian legal system, the inclusion of transportation in Article 6 of the Federal Constitution by Constitutional Amendment No. 90/2015 reinforced the understanding that urban displacement cannot be treated merely as a sectoral public service, but as a material condition for the exercise of citizenship. In this context, this research addresses the effectiveness of the fundamental right to urban mobility in light of the Smart Cities paradigm, with emphasis on the regulation of the National Urban Mobility Policy, personal data protection, interfederative governance, and the legal instruments for contracting and regulating transportation services. Thus, the central research problem is expressed by the following question: how does the Brazilian legal system ensure the effectiveness of the social right to urban mobility in the face of regulatory, budgetary, and data protection challenges imposed by the implementation of the Smart Cities model? The study is justified by the legal relevance of the constitutional recognition of transportation as a social right, by the social impact of precarious urban mobility on vulnerable populations, and by the need to prevent technological modernization from deepening inequalities or violating users’ privacy. The general objective is to analyze the right to urban mobility in the era of Smart Cities, investigating regulatory frameworks, constitutional guarantees, and legal challenges in order to ensure technological management that is efficient, sustainable, and socially inclusive. The specific objectives are to examine the legal nature of transportation as a fundamental social right; analyze the National Urban Mobility Policy and its principles; investigate the legal concept of Smart City; assess the conflicts between mobility innovation and data protection; and study the instruments of regulatory State action and jurisdictional protection. As methodological procedures, the research adopts an applied nature, theoretical type, qualitative approach, exploratory-descriptive objective, hypothetical-deductive method, and bibliographical-documentary procedures. It concludes that the Brazilian normative framework offers relevant bases for the protection of urban mobility, but its effectiveness depends on the articulation between urban planning, interfederative governance, contractual regulation, data protection, digital inclusion, and social control.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 2784359 - ANA MONICA MEDEIROS FERREIRA
Interno - 1254860 - FABRICIO GERMANO ALVES
Presidente - 2279345 - SERGIO ALEXANDRE DE MORAES BRAGA JUNIOR