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The first of these was the Transport Research Board<\/a>\u00a094th Annual Meeting, which drew over 10,000 participants to discuss\u00a0a range of transport topics.\u00a0On January 12th, Jonas Hagen of Columbia University presented a poster on a paper that he submitted to TRB 2015 with Despacio’s Carlosfelipe Pardo and Johanna Burbano Valente. The paper, titled “Motorcycle Adoption and Use in Latin American Cities: A Qualitative Study” uses interviews and focus groups to uncover themes related to motorcycle use in six cities: Barranquilla, Bogot\u00e1 (Colombia), S\u00e3o Paulo, Recife (Brazil), Caracas (Venezuela), and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Based on research carried out for the CAF \u2013 Development Bank of Latin America in\u00a02011 and 2012, the paper shows common themes across the six cities, including the time advantage that motorcycles offered\u00a0over\u00a0public transportation and congested auto traffic, the reasonable cost of motorcycles versus other transport modes, the culture of motorcycle use, and the vulnerability of motorcyclists to traffic injury and death.<\/p>\n Despacio\u00a0took advantage of the concentration of transport experts in D.C. to launch its Bogot\u00e1 2014 Bicycle Account<\/a>, a\u00a0preliminary English-language study of trends, perceptions and needs for cycling in Bogot\u00e1.\u00a0Later in the week, we\u00a0presented the Bogot\u00e1 2014 Bicycle Account at the Transforming Transportation<\/a> conference, organized by the World Bank and EMBARQ. Meanwhile, the\u00a0Sustainable Low-Carbon Transport (SLoCaT<\/a>) Partnership had its annual meeting. Despacio, as the representative of SLoCaT’s Latin America and Caribbean\u00a0division, participated in the meeting and provided input\u00a0on regional activities and needs.<\/p>\n