Avaliação da qualidade de calçadas : um estudo de caso para cidade de Fortaleza/CE

Abstract

The sidewalks are very democratic and therefore serves to all audiences, however their study are not really explored. By watching the existing gap in the urbanization to pedestrians, the case study should provide a better understanding about the walking importance. Thus, this work aims to analyze and classify some sidewalks stretches, qualitatively evaluating, through methods Mori and Tsukaguchi, Khisty and Dixon developed by other authors. The case study took place in 3 regions of Fortaleza city, in Ceará state. In this sense, a literature review, a field research and a opinion poll (with the pedestrians who used these routes constantly) were carried out in the 3 evaluated segments. By the end, it was found that the results showed that the walks obtained good and reasonable service levels. In addition, it was also noticed that the methods, although being distincts and evaluating different variables had similar results.