Definição de parâmetros dimensionais de estacionamento para veículos de duas rodas – estudo de caso da UFSCar
Resumo
Being a global phenomenon, the motorization process has advanced in the last decades and is
characterized mainly by the increase of motor vehicles used in the individual transport. The
evidence suggests the association of the process with the deficiencies of public transport, the
model of urban land occupation and the economic policies to encourage the automobile
industry in recent decades. In view of the aggravation of the national scenario, the new
guidelines of the National Urban Mobility Policy were instituted in 2012 with the purpose of
encouraging the use of collective transportation and non-motorized modes. In spite of
representing an innovation, with admittedly positive propositions, several questions are
raised, especially regarding the financing of infrastructure and the sharing of the costs of
public transport and other initiatives aimed at urban mobility. The new legislation did not give
due attention to motorcycles, as it saw them under the same conditions as cars and other
motor vehicles, despite their recognized vulnerability. This is the reason why small safety
initiatives in the use of this type of vehicle are important. It was verified that some parking
spaces for motorcycles available on the campus São Carlos of the UFSCar have reduced
dimensions or some difficulty for their access, besides the disproportionality in front of the
offer of vacancies for the automobiles. The hypothesis was then formulated about the
outdating of the parameters used in the distribution of the vacancies, dimensions and in the
maximum slope of the floor, particularly in parking lots positioned outside the streets. The
bibliographic review was applied to collect propositions regarding these parameters. A
questionnaire was also sent to the municipal transit authorities, which allowed verification the
criteria for the deployment of new parking lots. The case study was used to analyze the
adopted parameters and was inferred by the veracity of the initial hypothesis. It was also
verified that in the majority of the studied cases the size of the vacancies do not follow the
recommendation of the regulator of traffic. It was found that the distribution of parking spaces
between motorcycles and automobiles does not correspond to the proportion observed in the
municipal, state and regional vehicle fleet. It was concluded that the specificities of the
motorcycles were not considered in relation to the inclination of the floor of the parking lots.
Based on the information obtained during the research, the proposals for adequacy for
UFSCar parking lots were made.