Análise das características da demanda do transporte fluvial em Cabedelo e do movimento intermodal na área

Abstract

Even though the river transport in Cabedelo is not structured properly in order to offer praticity and comfort to passengers, it is noticeable its role on the daily journeys of those who cross the Rio Paraíba from Forte Velho and Costinha to Cabedelo. This river transport and its interchange with other means of transportation turns that area in which passengers arrive into an interchange zone due to the inclusion of regular means of transportation such as trains, ferries, buses, bicycles and also the irregular ones such as alternative transportations and motortaxi. This area not only deserves to be recognised as an interchange zone but also needs to be restored in order to make this interchange between ferry, train, bus, car and bicycle the most eficiente as possible, which will improve the public transportation quality and passengers mobility. A field research was developed with the purpose of characterizing this transport demand and, together with this characterization, the local interchange quality. Methods of DepartureDestination research and passenger counting were used in this thesis. An analysis based on the interchange best practice guidelines (2009) was held to evaluate the interchange zone, considering the fact that London has one of the best and well integrated public transportation of the world and not excluding the particularities of the studied area. As a result, it was possible to characterize the passengers demand who use this waterway transport and, more than that, to identify the positive and negative criteria that must be taken into consideration about the design of a future mobility project