Proposta de utilização do urbanismo tático como ferramenta para promover a mobilidade ativa no municipio de Cuiabá-MT

Abstract

With the sprawling and disorganized growth of most Brazilian cities, there is a need to get around every day, whether for leisure or work, and thus people have chosen private vehicles as their main means of transportation, thus generating the need for municipalities to invest increasingly in public spaces for cars. However, in recent years there has been a movement to reclassify public spaces and return them to pedestrian and bicycle circulation, and Tactical Urbanism has become an important tool to promote active mobility in cities. Tactical Urbanism is a set of actions that aim to democratize the right to the city. The urban interventions created are, in general, of small and medium scale, and have the advantage of low cost and temporary implementation, allowing the project to be tested before being implemented. Thus, following examples applied in Brazil and in the world, the present work proposes an intervention of Tactical Urbanism as a tool to promote active mobility in the center of Cuiabá. In a complementary way, a survey was conducted to verify the problems of poor lighting, safety, accessibility and pedestrian comfort. After this diagnosis, the Tactical Urbanism action was simulated in the PTV Vissim software, where it was found a gain of 0.17 m/s in pedestrian speed and an average increase of 13% in pedestrian density. With the vehicles it was possible to verify an average increase of 5% in the queue and an average increase of 34% (10 seconds) in the vehicle delay time. Thus, it can be concluded that Tactical Urbanism is a tool to encourage active mobility, but it must be applied in conjunction with other actions.