Análise da acessibilidade dos usuários de baixa renda as oportunidades de emprego por meio do transporte público de Fortaleza

Abstract

Collective public transportation has a social function since it allows its users access to services, basic social activities and work opportunities, providing the accessibility of the low-income population to all urban spaces. These functions also represent an important social inclusion mechanism. Thus, it is imperative to analyze the problem of uneven spatial distribution of accessibility levels, which represents the main objective of this work. For this purpose, an integrated approach was utilized that considers the interaction of accessibility with its individual components, land use, and transportation as well as strategic values such as equity in order to foster understanding of the problem and hypotheses for the causes of this problem. As far as the methodology is concerned, spatial exploratory data analysis techniques in the area were applied to investigate hypotheses still in the problem identification phase and non-spatial modeling to ascertain the validity of the proposed model. Finally, the results showed strong evidence of the influence of the individual components, transport and land use in the arrangement of accessibility levels to the workplaces in the city of Fortaleza and the limitations observed in the analysis of the non-spatial model.