Caracterização espacial da acessibilidade dos usuários do sistema integrado de transporte de Fortaleza

Abstract

This paper presents a spatial analysis of the users’ accessibility characteristics of Fortaleza’s Integrated Public Transport System (SIT-FOR), based on two distinct approaches: microaccessibility and macroaccessibility. In the first approach, the aspects related to the users’ spatial and temporal accessibility are analyzed, while in the second approach it is spatially characterized an index that depicts the users’ accessibility to the main working zones. The methodology applied in this study was based on the use of spatial analysis tools within a GIS platform, specifically routines of selection, manipulation and area exploratory analyses, with the objective of identifying the spatial distribution pattern, critical areas and growth trends of the variables representing accessibility, as a means of characterizing their behavior over the entire Fortaleza County.