Avaliação dos impactos do metrô na acessibilidade da população de baixa renda aos postos de trabalho em Fortaleza

Abstract

The current transporta5on planning paradigm, which focus lies not only on people’s mo-bility but specially on their access to urban ac5vi5es, is based on sustainability and eq-uity principles aiming to reduce socio-spa5al inequali5es, thus fostering beAer quality of life and social jus5ce. In such a decision-making context, this paper’s main objec5ve is to assess how opera5onal investments in Metrofor’s South and West lines impact on the accessibility to jobs experienced by the low-income popula5on in Fortaleza. The pro-posed ex-ante assessment method, assuming the egalitarianism social premise, uses a u5lity-based accessibility indicator, derived from the logsum concept, to help raise hy-potheses related to the zones’ spa5al distribu5on more or less benefited from the inter-ven5on, as well as the dispersion of the impact over the most vulnerable social group. It is concluded that the proposed ac5ons are effec5ve in raising accessibility levels in cri5cal zones, although with limited effects if not coupled with land-use public policie