Luiz Afonso Penha de Sousa is a PhD candidate in Transportation Engineering in the graduate program of Transportation Engineering (PET/COPPE), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), under the supervision of Prof. Licinio da Silva Portugal. He holds a master's degree from PET/COPPE/UFRJ and a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from UFRJ (2008). He is a professor of Civil Engineering at the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET-RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research interests include sustainable urban mobility, trip-generating development licensing, multicriteria assessment methods, and the integration of sustainability principles into transport policy and regulation.