Veículo Leve sobre Trilhos - VLT: uma contribuição para mobilidade urbana sustentável?

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons for the non-implementation of Urban Mobility Projects by Land Roads Light Rail Vehicle (VLTs), by the competent urban planning bodies of João Pessoa, Paraíba. The relevance of the theme has brought high costs for the Brazilian public management, since it understands that the Brazilian cities, in this municipality, have experienced problems related to urban mobility. All are facing a precariousness in the public transport system, based on an old model, expensive, not sustainable for the environment and weak for the expansion of a productive network for the country. The methodology of the study comprised a qualitative approach, but it was used objective data, in view of the peculiarity of the theme. He handled documentary and bibliographic data, and applied interviews with representatives of SEMOB and CBTU. The results showed that the city of João Pessoa has experienced problems of articulation and vision of the future between the organs; public management has a disconnected project with the new realities and environmental legislation, preferring to design a design / mesh through BRTs, while, the management of the mixed company, CBTU coordinated several studies, launched proposals for planning with the State of Paraíba, but has encountered a space dispute in the field of urban mobility projections for the city, due to the economic and political impacts of each proposal. In view of the results, a more collective proposal of urban mobility is advocated, which proposes an integration between the rail system and the road system as an alternative to improve urban mobility in the city of João Pessoa, PB. The retrocession of the Urban Mobility management has allowed the scrapping of buses or poor service provided, the increase in the fleet of individual cars, caused environmental problems with pollution, slow traffic, cost-Brazil, among others, are problems that require effective actions of the State, with efficient and quality public policy applications.