Levantamento de restrições urbanas de circulação de veículos de carga : Uma análise descritiva nas maiores cidades brasileiras

Abstract

The urban centres are growing, both in population and in their business activities, which generates a greater number of travels through the city roads and a larger flow of freight vehicles designed to attend the population demand for various types of products and services. However, such exponential growth in the flow of vehicles and people must be coupled with a good plan of territorial use and urban traffic, the urban restrictions on the circulation of freight vehicles are considered silver bullet to mitigate this externality. A survey of common characteristics among higher cities contributes to the operators deal with the urban restrictions, enabling efficient business relations. The knowledge of the restrictions and how they are adopted according to the municipality may guide sustainable mobility policies in the cities. Given the frequently changes in the traffic legislation of the cities, the task of survey a Brazilian overview of urban restrictions and how they are applied in huge cities is complex, also the number of academic papers that represent this subject is reduced. To address this problem, it is necessary to adopt a qualitative research approach through a structured research model using a survey methodology, so different information about the constraints can be analysed. In this paper, we sought to gather information about the restrictions adopted in the largest cities in Brazil, studying their behaviour, in which days and times are mainly used by the government and especially what type of roads are affected and the variation of restrictions from one region to another within the same urban centre, as well as in different regions of the country with different social, spatial, market and economic characteristics without sticking to such aspects. By the proposed method, it was possible to identify the restrictions on cargo vehicles in the largest Brazilian cities, learning about: the road type aspects and how on such roads physical vehicle size restrictions; traffic time windows and their main restriction times are adopted; and when are these traffic limitations are mitigated to meet the provision of public service to residents of a city, among others.