Active mobility researcher, GIS and R enthusiast
Rosa Félix is an urban cycling mobility researcher. She has a masters degree in Territory and Urban Planning Engineering (2012) and a PhD in Transportation Systems (MIT Portugal program) from the University of Lisbon (2019). Her PhD thesis was awarded the prize for Best PhD in Urban Mobility by RedeMOV in 2021.
Rosa has been working in cycling mobility since 2012. In 2013, she collaborated in designing the Bicycle Mobility Plan of the Municipality of Loulé, and in the expansion of the EuroVelo Network to Portugal. Since 2017, Rosa has been working in several research and consultancy projects for the Municipality of Lisbon and public local and regional mobility agencies, as a CERIS postdoc researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico. She is co-founder and member of the U-Shift research lab.
Rosa is skilled in GIS, modern GIS, transport modelling, R software, and loves web mapping. She has also worked as a cartographer for the Portuguese Geographic Institute, and as project manager at Bike Pop in Lisbon.
A cycling activist in Lisbon since 2011, she is project coordinator at Cicloficina dos Anjos, a community bicycle shop. She was a Visiting Scholar in Portland State University in 2017/18, where she also volunteered at Bike Farm.
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Rosa Félix, Filipe Moura, Robin Lovelace. Reproducible methods for modeling combined public transport and cycling trips and associated benefits: evidence from the biclaR tool. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 117(2025): 102230. April 2025.
Mateus Humberto, Rosa Félix, Filipe Moura. How equal is accessibility to cycling infrastructure? A ranking to compare territories in Lisbon, Portugal. Transportation Research Procedia, 72: 2472-2478, December 2023.
Rosa Félix, Mauricio Orozco-Fontalvo, Filipe Moura. Socio-economic assessment of shared e-scooters: do the benefits overcome the externalities?. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 118: 103714, May 2023.
Filipe Moura, Gabriel Valelnça, Rosa Félix, David S. Vale. The impact of public bike-sharing systems on mobility patterns: Generating or replacing trips?. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2 January 2023.
Robin Lovelace, Rosa Félix, Dustin Carlino. Exploring Jittering and routing options for converting origin-destination data into route networks: towards accurate estimates of movement at the street level. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W1-2022: 279-286, August 2022.
Rosa Félix, Gabriel Valelnça, Filipe Moura. O impacte de incentivos públicos à aquisição de bicicletas elétricas na adoção do modo ciclável. O caso de Lisboa. 10º Congresso Rodoferroviário Português, Lisboa, July 2022. ISBN: 978-989-98338-5-2.
Tomás Tavares, Filipe Moura, Rosa Félix. O uso da Microssimulação no apoio ao desenho de Redes Cicláveis. O caso da Av. de Roma, Lisboa. 10º Congresso Rodoferroviário Português, Lisboa, July 2022. ISBN: 978-989-98338-5-2.
Miguel Costa, Rosa Félix, Manuel Marques, Filipe Moura. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the behavior change of cyclists in Lisbon, using multinomial logit regression analysis. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 14: 100609, June 2022.
Robin Lovelace, Rosa Félix, Dustin Carlino. Jittering: A Computationally Efficient Method for Generating Realistic Route Networks from Origin-Destination Data. Findings, April 2022.
Robin Lovelace, Rosa Félix, Dustin Carlino, Roger Beecham. Assessing methods for generating route networks from origin-destionation data: jittering, routing, and visualisation. Journal of Spatial Information Science. 30th Annual Geographical Information Science Research UK (GISRUK), Liverpool, April 2022.
Rosa Félix, Robin Lovelace. Slopes: a package for reproducible slope calculation, analysis and visualisation. FOSS4G 2021, Bueno Aires, September 2021.
Rosa Félix, Paulo Cambra, Filipe Moura. Build it and give ’em bikes, and they will come: the effects of cycling infrastructure and bike-sharing system in Lisbon. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 8(2): 672-682, June 2020.
Rosa Félix, Filipe Moura, Kelly J. Clifton. Maturing urban cycling: Comparing barriers and motivators to bicycle of cyclists and non-cyclists in Lisbon, Portugal. Journal of Transport & Health, 15: 100628, December 2019.
Rosa Félix, Ricardo Sobral, Filipe Moura. Fleet sizing a university bike loan program: assessment of realistic and non-realistic users’ interest. OSF Preprints, December 2019.
Filipe Moura, Rosa Félix, Carlos Roque. Avaliação do impacte potencial do Programa U-Bike nos padrões de mobilidade da comunidade do Instituto Superior Técnico. 9º Congresso Rodoviário Português, Lisboa, May 2019. ISBN: 978-989-98338-4-5.
Rosa Félix, Filipe Moura, Kelly J. Clifton. Comparação de barreiras e motivadores para a adoção da bicicleta em Lisboa. 9º Congresso Rodoviário Português, Lisboa, May 2019. ISBN: 978-989-98338-4-5.
Rosa Félix, Filipe Moura, Kelly J. Clifton. Typologies of Urban Cyclists: Review of Market Segmentation Methods for Planning Practice. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2662: 125-133, January 2017.
Rosa Félix, Alexandre Bacelar Gonçalves, Jorge Baptista e Silva. SIRCUL - Ferramenta interativa de planeamento de percursos para ciclistas e de apoio à Gestão da Mobilidade em Lisboa. Conferência Nacional de Geodecisão 2014, Barreiro, May 2014. ISBN: 978-989-20-4966-3.
Jorge Baptista e Silva, Rosa Félix, Alexandre Bacelar Gonçalves, Fernando Nunes da Silva. A Participative Bike Route Planner to Improve Adaptive Cycling Strategies in Cycling Starter Cities - typology of cyclists and cycling preferences in Lisbon. AESOP-ACSP Joint Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 2013.
Rosa Félix, Jorge Baptista e Silva. User’s needs and preferences for network cycling planning and management in the city of Lisbon, a Starter city. ICHC2013 – XXIV International Cycling History Conference, Lisboa, May 2013.
Tiago Mesquita Carvalho, Rosa Félix and Gonçalo Duarte Santos. The role of a community bicycle shop in cycling policies: the case of Lisbon. ICHC2013 – XXIV International Cycling History Conference, Lisboa, May 2013.
Rosa Félix. Barriers and motivators to bicycle in cities with low cycling maturity: Lisbon case study. PhD in Transportation Systems. Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior Técnico, November 2019. Supervisor: Filipe Moura (IST); Co-Supervisor: Kelly Clifton (Portland State University).
Rosa Félix. Gestão da Mobilidade em Bicicleta. Necessidades, factores de preferência e ferramentas de suporte ao planeamento e gestão de redes. O caso de Lisboa. MSc in Territorial Engineering. Instituto Superior Técnico, November 2012. Supervisor: Jorge Batista e Silva; Co-Supervisor: Alexandre Gonçalves.
Rosa Félix and Filipe Moura (2020). Sistema de bicicletas partilhadas de Lisboa - GIRA. in: Andrade, V., Quintanilha, L. (Eds.), Bicicletas nas Cidades: Experiências de Compartilhamento, Diversidade e Tecnologia. Relicário, Rio de Janeiro. ISBN: 9786586279023.
Rosa Félix (2013). Preface of A Gloriosa Bicicleta: Compêndio de costumes, emoções e desvarios em duas rodas. Alves, L., & Carvalho, P. Texto Editores, Lisbon, pp. 11–12. ISBN: 9789724746555.
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