Expansão e mobilidade urbana em Nova Erechim

Abstract

Nowadays, with the urban growthing and the consequent demand for mobility, it has been occuring a strong increase in road traffic. The Urban mobility is a very important factor to the people's lives and well-being, and due to the lack of public transportation in the most of Brazilian cities, it is becoming more restricted, conditioned mainly by the individual automobile. In this sense, we seek to analyze the urban reality of the city of Nova Erechim, in Santa Catarina state, and its problems related to mobility. Thus, this work has the aims to understand how the expansion of the city of Nova Erechim, beyond highway BR 282, changes the mobility of the population. To carry out the research, it was adopted the following methodology, qualitative empirical research and visits to the city hall, to the Chapecó Memory and Culture Center (CEOM) and the municipal library, searching for data and information. These surveys and analyzes have made it possible to verify the difficulties encountered in the mobility of pedestrians and to understand that the city will develop even more around the road. Finally, it is proposed as a proposed solution the construction of a catwalk to be implemented by public authorities (municipal and state) in order to seek to solve or reduce the impacts of existing problems aimed at a better quality of life for city dwellers.