ANÁLISE DA INFRAESTRUTURA DA REDE CICLOVIÁRIA DE JOÃO PESSOA: CONEXÃO AV. BEIRA RIO - UFPB

Abstract

This work has the purpose of analyzing the cycle network of João Pessoa, focusing on its infrastructure, and proposing a solution to one of its discontinuities, the one located between the bicycle path of Av. Beira Rio and the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). Beira Rio's bicycle path is part of an important city road, connecting several neighborhoods, being, together with the bike routes of Cabo Branco and Tambaú’s shores, one of the most used by the cyclists interviewed. The choice of the interconnection with UFPB was due to it being a trip generating pole of the city and being part of the route of most people interviewed, even though the network does not appear to have a safe access for those who use the bicycle. As a theoretical basis, aspects of urban mobility were raised from the perspective of a specific modality of transportation: the bicycle. Field visits were also made in order to check and record the current road infrastructure situation of the city bicycle system. The network’s condition analysis was made through the use of maps, tables and images, pointing out the clearly degraded areas, obstacles and discontinuities existent in the network. In addition, a questionnaire was applied to users and non-users of the cycleway network, in order to understand the reasons that make people avoid using bicycle and the reasons of those who use it, seeking to understand how they perceive the city's cycle network’s infrastructure. Based on bibliographic research and the analysis of the results of the questionnaire, it was identified that for both users and nonusers, the main problem is the network discontinuity. Thus, it focused on UFPB, hence the proposition of the connection solution between Av. Beira Rio and UFPB.