Reflexões para a mobilidade urbana: contribuições para promoção de um transporte público sustentável no Município de Campina Grande - PB.

Abstract

Sustainable urban mobility in Brazilian cities is a major challenge for managers and planners, since the dynamics of the process require both urgent mitigation measures and future planning within the new standards described by Law 12,587 / 2012. The priority for nonmotorized modes, public transport and the integration between modes and services of urban transport, requires of the cities, new positions with respect to their systems. This study aimed to evaluate the conditions of the Public Transport System of the Municipality of Campina Grande PB, within the scope of sustainable urban mobility and to verify the opportunities and deficiencies that the result pointed out, reflecting how these issues influence the same. The study was carried out from a retrospective point of view, in the year 2015, through the Sustainable Urban Mobility Index (IMUS), created by Costa (2008) and adapted by Maia (2013), Urban Mobility Index for Public Transport (IMUS) TP), where only public transport indicators were selected. The application of the index has shown that Campina Grande has urban mobility for public transport below the index average, 0,43 , on a scale ranging from 0 to 1. It was possible to verify which indixes are in the most critical conditions, to perform simulation of the impact that a modified indicator can produce on the city's Sustainable Public Transportation, comparing it with the city of Anápolis and a verification of users' impressions through a Google tool in July 2017, with questions referring to the main indicators to town. Most of the answers confirmed the result that the index had already revealed. The development of this work was intended to contribute to the public transportation of the municipality. In general terms, the index pointed to the need to implement exclusive roads for public transport, intermodal integration, the need for a new destination origin survey, among other recommendations observed.