UMA ABORDAGEM SOBRE O NÍVEL DE ACEITAÇÃO DA CARONA SOLIDÁRIA COMO MEDIDA SUSTENTÁVEL NA CIDADE DE JOÃO PESSOA

Abstract

Congestion is one of the major problems faced by large urban centers nowadays and arises from a lack of planning in urban mobility along with the growth of the number of vehicles. Among the consequences of the excessive number of vehicles on the roads there are pollution increase and journey time. An sustainable urban mobility emerges as an alternative to reverse this trend and one of its measures is the carpool, that means trips sharing. This research aims to evaluate the rate of acceptance of the carpooling in João Pessoa city, which even though does not have a chaotic traffic as São Paulo, already shows some signs of that problem. The study also aims to understand the reasons that favor this practice and what are the obstacles that prevent its acceptance by the population. So, an easy understanding questionnaire was elaborated for that purpose and it has obtained a total of 386 answers. With that result it was possible to do an analysis on the possibility of implanting this system in João Pessoa.