Formulação de um indicador de acessibilidade das calçadas e travessias.
Abstract
The present dissertation work in Urban Engineering of the Federal University of
São Carlos (UFSCar) aims to define an easy and practical form of evaluating the level of
service in public spaces destined to the carriers of physical deficiency (sidewalks and
streets passages) through the determination of an index that considers the parameters of
higher importance by the point of view of wheelchair users.
The index is defined through the identification and the ordinance of variables based
on physical and environment characterization of sidewalks related to aspects of quality
such as comfort, security and conditions of the environment. The weighing scale of the
variables of physical and environment characterization of sidewalks (importance degree) is
carried through analysis based on wheelchair users perception, therefore defining the
ISPA - Index of Sidewalks and Passages Accessibility, and verifying its functionality
through auditor work also performed with wheelchairs users advice in two places of São
Carlos city.
Through this tool of evaluation, the agencies of road management can evaluate the
quality of the public spaces in a total route or specific stretches of the essential
displacements for the real participation of the person with locomotion difficulties in
society.