Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: AGATHA KNOX FIGUEIRA

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STUDENT : AGATHA KNOX FIGUEIRA
DATE: 18/11/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: remoto
TITLE:

CONFIGURATION AND ROUTES: ABOUT THE ADEQUACY OF STREET CONFIGURATION TO URBAN CYCLING IN NATAL

KEY WORDS:

urban cycling, bikeability, space syntax

PAGES: 112
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

Urban cycling has potential as a low cost mean of transportation, granting a sustainable way of accessing the city as a whole. This work studies the relation between topological accessibility in Natal’s viary system and bikeability in the routes of cyclists – bikeability is understood here as the set of qualities in the urban environment that are favourable to cycling. The main issue is how the urban form eases or difficults cycling as a mean of transportation in the city of Natal. Natal’s topological accessibility is quantified through linear representations of its viary system, and visual accessibility in critical points is measured through visibility graphs, and then, the resulting data is compared with the location of traffic collision envolving cyclists’ sites, land uses, location of cycling infrastructure and georreferenced cyclists routes, registered through their smartphones’ GPS, gathered in applications with social media interface. A direct association between accessibility and traffic safety was demonstrated, for the most chosen street segments in certain radii (between 3 and 5km in the case of Natal) gather most routes and collision sites. A relation between income levels, integration and placement of cycling infrastructure was also found.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 350255 - EDJA BEZERRA FARIA TRIGUEIRO
Interna - 1149643 - GLEICE VIRGINIA MEDEIROS DE AZAMBUJA ELALI
Externa à Instituição - FLÁVIA MONALIZA NUNES SECUNDO LOPES