Uso de modelos de localização para o diagnóstico de rede de terminais: estudo de caso em terminais rodoviários do Estado do Ceará

Abstract

The state of Ceará has experienced a lot of socioeconomic changes in recent years, with an impact in people’s way of transportation. The actions of the local government have sought to monitor this dynamic by drawing up technical studies and new regulatory guidelines for the local and intercity Road Transportation System for passengers from the state of Ceará (Sistema de Transporte Rodoviário Intermunicipal Interurbano de Passageiros do Estado do Ceará - STIP-CE), with strategic, tactical and operational planning actions. However, some equipment that comprise the infrastructure of this system, especially the bus terminals, continued to show weaknesses, being on the list of operational, regulatory and institutional problems. Among the observed problems are situations such as ineffectiveness or idleness of some terminals and infrastructure, while other places show a poor and saturated infrastructure. The lack of technical studies for deployment of terminals, especially its location, can be considered a major cause of this scenario. Given this context, the general aim of this thesis is to investigate the use of location models to make the diagnosis of a terminal network, addressing issues related to macrolocalization (macrolocalização) of such equipment. A case study was carried out in STIP-CE, by using the TransCAD software in order to assist the implementation of the proposed method of diagnosis