Proposição de políticas públicas de mobilidade a área urbana do município de Cuiabá/MT

Abstract

The Urban Mobility Plans (UMPs) are the mains policy planning tool to guide the orderly growth of urban trasnport and the mobility development for the inhabitants of any municipality. The national legislations provides basis for the need to create these plans and to obtain financial resources for the investments in the area. Cuiabá is one of the brazilians capitals approached in the study, being in the second place in a vehiclepopulation index presenting approximately 7 private vehicles per 10 inhabitanst (0,726 vehicle/inhabitanst). This confirms the worsening of traffic problems, pollution of urban centers, accidents and reduction of the space for active mobility. In terms of accessibility, Cuiabá presents legislations that seeks to include people with special needs in the municipal environment and in the urban activities, however, it requires many investments in high circulation points that generally have narrow sidewalks, uneven pavement, absence of ramps and accessibility tools, and lack of professional preparation. It was possible to conclude that the main barrier for the implementation of instruments to discourage individual transportations is in the hands of goverment managers, who is goins to have to invest in quality of public transportation and face ad make the population aware of this need. When it come to accessibility, the indetified impasse comes from the lack of interest in executing and inspecting the existing planning that must include the people with special needs in the urban inviroment.