O programa Bicicletar como uma alternativa à crise da mobilidade urbana na cidade de Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

With the accelerated and disordered urbanization, and the great concentration of people in the city of Fortaleza, in the last decades, it caused an increase in the fleet of private cars, and thus the locomotion difficulties and the congestion of the capital of Ceará were accentuated. In order to improve the problem of urban mobility in the city, the municipal administration launched several mobility initiatives, among them the Shared Bicycles Program. Seeking to better understand the initiative of the municipal management of the city of Fortaleza for shared bicycles, the work brings an analysis of the Bicicletar Program from the perspective of users of shared bicycles and from the perspective of the Urban Mobility Law. For data collection, questionnaires were carried out with bicycle users, through a structured questionnaire with 16 questions, in 40 stations of the Bicicletar during the period from November 2020 to January 2021. In this way, the response of 37 active users of the Program was obtained. and it can be seen its growth in the capital of Ceará and how it positively impacts the lives of users of public transport and that through encouragement it can be even more effective as an alternative tool to the urban mobility crisis in Fortaleza.