Polos geradores de tráfego: estudo do impacto de um edifício de uso misto em João Pessoa

Abstract

The fast increase in number of mixed use buildings (shopping and office), known as traffic generator poles, in urban areas has been a major of concern for traffic and transportation authorities and for private companies which work in transportation area. This concern is due to the high number of trips attracted and generated by those poles that causes negative impacts on city´s road and transportation system. In order to avoid great impacts caused by traffic generator poles, some of Brazilian cities law have been dedicating its attention to those types of facilities and requiring some features and studies on its implementation. In order to illustrate the impact caused by a mixed building on its around traffic, this study reunion data of mixed use building located in João Pessoa-PB and vehicle counts on its around before it is built. On following, it is applied CET-SP methodology to estimate building’s cars demand when it gets running. Based on these data, it is simulated three different traffic settings around this building using TSIS (Traffic Software Integrated Simulation). The first setting is based on counts performed before the facility is built. The second setting is based on first data setting plus facility’s car demand. The third setting is based on the second setting plus an estimating increase of car fleet based on DENTRAN-PB’s data. For last, results from simulation are compared using delay time and waiting time as the parameters. Therefore, it was possible to realize the additional demand on road’s system due to the PGT and to verify necessary changes on road’s infrastructure or on people’s behavior in order to improve population’s transportation.