Avaliação da Potencialidade do uso de Indicadores de Mobilidade Urbana Sustentável (IMUS) para melhoria das condições de mobilidade de João Pessoa - PB

Abstract

Faced with urban transformations and their impacts on society, new challenges arise in the face of the integration of sustainable development in cities and current socioeconomic and environmental needs. Accelerated growth of unplanned cities, use of individual means of transport and widespread population expansion modify the patterns of Brazilian municipalities and negatively impact urban mobility. In this way, studies that identify the real condition of existing urban mobility and the quality of life of the population are essential to help technicians and managers make decisions and allocate investments. This paper presents the results of the analysis of the ten most important indicators of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Index (IMUS) methodology proposed by Costa (2008), with the aim of evaluating the potential for advancing sustainability in the city of João Pessoa - PB, through improvements in their indexes. To this end, sustainable urban mobility indicators are used, classified on a scale from 0 to 1, with results close to 1, those that present better conditions for sustainable urban mobility. The results obtained show that the classification of the municipality would have a great advance, starting to be categorized as good and could also impact other indicators, despite noting the need for some methodological adjustments, for the insertion of unforeseen situations.