Mobilidade urbana sustentável: um estudo comparativo e as bases de um sistema de gestão para Brasil e Portugal / Sustainable urban mobility: a comparative study and the bases for a management system in Brazil and Portugal

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2003

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There is a clear need for the implementation of sustainability principles and guidelines in urban areas, as well as for strategies for controlling the elements that shape the urban environment. The growing environmental, social, and economic problems make this need continuously more evident because they negatively impact the urban quality of life. As a consequence, indicators become essential tools to provide the knowledge and information required for understanding particular aspects and problems of the cities. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to identify indicators that are suitable for monitoring the urban mobility conditions of selected cities in Brazil and Portugal aiming at a sustainable development. An inventory of urban indicators in cities of the two countries has been carried out through Internet and the data collected, which reflected either existing or under development indicator systems, were combined with weights extracted from experts evaluation of the relative importance of each information group considered. The 106 Brazilian cities and 121 Portuguese cities were thereafter classified into groups of similar characteristics regarding the previous evaluation. The results showed that, at least regarding what is available to the public through Internet, both countries clearly have limitations of data and information for monitoring their urban mobility conditions. The second phase of the research was the selection and analysis of mobility indicators extracted from several national and international experiences of sustainability indicators. Those indicators were organized under a framework of Categories and Themes and also submitted to the evaluation of groups of experts in both countries, in order to determine their relative importance for monitoring urban mobility conditions. Indicators dealing with environmental aspects were among those identified with the higher weights in Brazil, while the evaluation of the Portuguese experts put indicators regarding urban spatial planning and transport demand management at the top of the list. A common point in the evaluation was the fact that indicators related to transport technologies and infrastructure have the smallest weights in both countries.

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brazilian cities sustainable urban mobility mobility indicators urban sustainability cidades portuguesas portuguese cities cidades brasileiras indicadores de mobilidade sustentabilidade urbana mobilidade urbana sustentável

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