Análise da variabilidade temporal dos fluxos origem-destino e do volume de tráfego veicular na cidade de Fortaleza-Ce

Abstract

Understanding the patterns of road displacement of the population from an urban area is of fundamental importance for transportation planning. From this understanding it is possible to formulate and apply models for demand forecasting, and then to subsidize decision making in relation to public policies in the urban environment. Two of the variables that compose this pattern are the traffic volume and the origin-destination (OD) flows. From this, this research has as general objective to analyze the temporal variability of traffic volume and OD flows in the city of Fortaleza-CE using data from the electronic surveillance system installed in the city's road network. For this, two methodological steps were proposed and applied: data consolidation, with the objective of extracting time series of volume and OD flow from the data of electronic control, and exploratory analysis where we sought to analyze the variability of the series obtained in the first stage. At the end of this research it was obtained as a result the understanding of the patterns of traffic variability in the study area, at a global level, including temporal variations throughout the day and spatial in relation to the location in the road network and factors that may influence this variation, providing a contribution on the phenomenon, as well as on the method of analysis for the type of data used.