Análise do perfil e percursos dos ciclistas empregados da construção civil na cidade de São Luís - MA

Abstract

Public transportation in São Luís shows itself to be inefficient to meet all of it’s population. The consequence of this fact is the increase of the automotive fleet and, consequently, traffic jams across the city. An alternative to solve the problems of lack of mobility is creating new transportation alternatives. This work have the goal to present a bicycle system as an effective alternative to circumvent this situation. It is intended to perform with such research an analysis of transportation system in the city, focusing on construction employees. Suggest, based on the paths used as routs by construction workers, deployment locations of bike lanes in the city. The deployment of a bike lane must be analyzed taking into account several factors so the system will not be misused. There will be applied a qualitative research, throughout a structured questionnaire, including closed and open questions. The survey found that respondents know the advantages and disadvantages of this modal. They did identify themselves with this practice and, despite the problems in urban roads, they do not use the system of public transportation. Urban routes that are advantageous for the insertion of this modal are, theoretically, the ones that have major problems with urban mobility. The information obtained throughout this research contributed to the development of the Profile of the cyclist in São Luís