Análise dos padrões de variação espaço-temporal do volume veicular no ambiente urbano de Fortaleza

Abstract

The dynamic behavior of urban activities affects both temporal and spatial variation of traffic flow in urban road systems, making the knowledge of this variability essential to effectively control the urban traffic. Trying to fulfill the lack of systemic methodologies to analyze this phenomenon, this work focus on the investigation of vehicular volume behaviors, characterizing and analyzing the variability in traffic flow data of a sample network of urban arterial streets, in a case study in the city of Fortaleza. Therefore, it is presented a methodological procedure to evaluate the temporal and spatial dependency factors of traffic flow, pointing out the presence of interaction effects for the month of the year, the day of the week and peak periods in the distribution of vehicular volumes.