Planejamento de transporte cicloviário urbano: organização da circulação
Resumen
The spatial organization of Brazilian cities and the organization of their
transportation systems have been causing an uneven accessibility distribution among
other issues. This unbalance is marked by the fact that people who use private
motorized modes of transportation are the ones that have been benefiting the most
while the ones that use non motorized modes have been experiencing the worst
conditions. The knowledge about the motorized transportation is much more
developed than the knowledge regarding cycling as a mode of transportation. As long
as this kind of unbalance remains there will not be equity in the society areas related
to transportation. The purpose of this research is to provide general data and the
fundamentals to permit the comprehension of the urban cycling transportation
characteristics and the ways of organizing the cycling space as well. By evaluating
different ways of organizing this space this dissertation presents the ones that had
the best results or the ones that have the best potential to favourable results and that
are also generic enough to be adequate to a great number of Brazilian localities.
Within the chosen objectives the discussions and propositions presented in this
dissertation are focused on introducing the bicyclists inside the road system so it
would be possible to them to go everywhere in the cities under adequate conditions.
Therefore the search was for discussions and propositions that took the bicyclists
needs into consideration avoiding the ones that could exclude the bicyclists. This
dissertation is focused on ways of organizing the cycling space that are suitable to
new urbanization projects but specially on the ones that can fit to the areas with
established road systems. This research allowed the verification that urban cycling
transportation can really occur in a more harmonious way with the others modes of
transportation. The presented and evaluated propositions indicate that cycling
transportation is not incompatible with the motorized transportation