ANÁLISE DOS PARÂMETROS DE IRREGULARIDADE LONGITUDINAL DE CICLOFAIXAS COM O USO DO EQUIPAMENTO MERLIN NA CIDADE DE JOÃO PESSOA - PB

Abstract

Brazil, as well as many countries around the world, has recently faced major problems related to the issue of urban mobility. It is common to find crowded streets, public transport and their respective points of ascent and descent crowded passengers, ticket prices and fuels very high, and many users dissatisfied. In this difficult mobility scenario, bicycle transport has been used and diffused as an alternative to improve the locomotion of people within a city. For this improvement to occur, it is necessary that the bicycle infrastructure provides good conditions of safety, traffic and comfort for the user. Among the various pathologies in the pavements, longitudinal irregularity is one of the most influential in terms of the traffic comfort of the user. To attest the quality of these roads, there are some parameters that indicate how regular the infrastructure floor is. The present work made an analysis of the pavement quality of some segment of bike way in the city of João Pessoa. These parameters were calculated by a method using the MERLIN machine for measuring track irregularity. For each section, the International Irregularity Index (IRI) and Roughmess Quotient (IQ) were calculated, as well as an analysis of the stretches studied, in order to identify the possible causes of the longitudinal irregularities of the cycle ranges. It was verified that the drainage can influence the resistance of the pavement to the requests, as well as the presence of elements of interference between vehicles and the cycle path (garages, bus stops, parking lots, street entrances) influence the appearance of roughmess in the pavement of a cycle track