Assessment of mobility and accessibility at the UPE / Unicap travel generating pole in the city of Recife - PE

• Autor(a) principal: Macedo, Marcia Rejane Oliveira Barros Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Luiza Bandeira Rodrigues de, Ferreira, Bianca Oliveira, Kohlman Rabbani, Emilia Rahnemay
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade - GeAS
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/geas/article/view/19809
• topic: Travel generator pole; Sustainable urban mobility; Active modes of transport.; Polo gerador de viagem; Mobilidade urbana sustentável; Modos ativos de transporte.

Goal: To analyze mobility at the UPE / UNICAP Travel Generating Pole (PGV) based on the observation of travel patterns, the population's input and the conditions of public transportation when accessing universities.Methodology: Application of an online quiz with questions about the characteristics of the displacements, the motivations and barriers to use them. Analysis of the mobility and accessibility of the PGV using the Sustainable Mobility Index for University Campus (IMSCamp) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).Relevance: The traffic department is responsible for many impacts in the urban environment, especially by promoting individual motorized transport, which causes the abasement of the public transportation. From the perspective of sustainability, mobility must be analyzed to identify actions for the use and occupation of land in order to mitigate the damage caused to the environment and to improve the quality of people's lives.Results: The average time of the student who lives 10 km away from the PGV is 2.8 times greater than that of the students who live 5 km away from the PGV. Undergraduate students are more likely to use active modes of transport and awareness campaigns.Contributions: Based on the diagnosis of the current mobility situation and the identification of its main problems, it will be possible to assist in proposing improvements and adjustments that enable sustainable urban mobility in the PGV.Conclusion: Having contact with the discussion about active means of transportation and the prioritization of pedestrians makes users more likely to reconsider the use of the private car.