Geografia do transporte público urbano: novos modos de transporte em cidades brasileiras

Abstract

This research objective is present the actual land transport modes for medium-capacity demands available at Brazilian cities current diagnosis. These medium mentioned capacity modes are based on the so-called New Transport Technologies. These are modes with higher transportation capacity and heavily based by technological equipments and instruments at their operation current management. This study’s justify by the necessity to analyze and identify Brazilian urban passenger mobility tendencies in the 21st century. These key elements are the basis for the public policies execution observed in this sector. The new transport modes represent a change from the traditional road-based mode widely used in the country. The focus of this pattern transformation in this study is aimed to observing the implementation of new modes of urban mobility in Brazilian cities, such as the new BRT and VLT systems. The search attempts to check the intermediate demands between the traditional road mode (low-capacity buses) and metro-rail modes (high-capacity subways and metropolitan suburban trains) attendance. By the performance’s observation of these new modes at the cities’ spaces, it is possible to note the reorganization of spatial interactions and spatial dynamics. The methodology used in this research consists of an inter/transdisciplinary bibliographic survey and review, in addition to the collection of technical data, definition of case studies and fieldwork to verify the analyzes studied. Among the knowledge areas studied, in addition to Geography itself, Engineering (Transport and Urban), Economics and Urban Planning stand out. Throughout this study it was possible to identify that some Brazilian cities are looking to implement these new modes of transport as a strategy to integrate systems and, also, urban territorial reorganization. Furthermore, it is possible to observe the attempt to integrate these new transportation modes with those ones already available and operating at the cities, as checked and observed at the urban areas analyzed during the case studies by fieldworks.