Análise do atual sistema cicloviário da cidade de Pato Branco e das ruas do anel central da cidade com foco no modal cicloviário

Abstract

Looking at the sustainable development of cities, using as a base the National Politics of Urban Mobility, that has as one of its principles to priotize the non-motorized modes of transportation over the motorized modes. This work was developed with the objective of evaluating the existing cycling infrastucture in the city of Pato Banco, Paraná, while also analyzing a area of study limited to inside the central region of the city, composed of eleven thoroughfares on the North-South axis and thirteen thoroughfares on the East-West axis, with a focus on the possible implementation of a cycling route. For the evaluation of the existing cycling infrastructire, IMUS (Index for Sustainable Urban Mobility) was partly used as a resource. In order to evaluate the streets, two other resources were used: Stress Level by Sorton and Walsh and Florida Roadway Condition Index (RCI) by Epperson-Davis. In the end, crossing the obtained results from the different resources with the subjective evaluation done in the field, a final classification of the thoroughfares on a map is presented. In conclusion, in respect to the current cycling system of the city, that is not actually thought of as a system, but more that some thoroughfares that have some form of infrastructure don't have any connection with each other. However, in relation to the studied area of the central region, the majority of the thoroughfares were verified to have great potential in behaving like cycling routes.