O sistema de transporte urbano e os reflexos sobre a (in) segurança no trânsito

Abstract

The growing fleet of motor vehicles for private use has gained prominence in recent decades in Brazil, now seen as synonymous with economic progress sometimes related to precarious transportation. The growth of cities requires expansion of new forms of transport and flows requiring new structural arrangements. The absence of a areas associated with transportation needs of traffic in cities has contributed to the increase in distance, traffic and accidents. This paper discusses analytically and comparative aspects of urban occupation in Brazil and in particular in the city of Montes Claros / MG, with main objective being the growth of the fleet of private cars, the transformations of urban road infrastructure and the standard perception in perspective to traffic insecurity . The technical studies on the circulation of changes in general treat the road network, standardization on the movement of people and goods on the urban space in a perspective of improving traffic. However, little noted aspect of spatial distribution of population and the factors involved in the issues of traffic safety. The urban sprawl of the city of Montes Claros from the 1970s, and its influence as a regional center, the lack of road and structural policies, deficiencies in the system of mass transit explains, in part, the growth of 118.14 % in vehicle fleet and 505.55% of traffic deaths in the period 2000/2010. Appeals by society for public intervention in control aspects, structural and scaling up new modes of urban transport clash with the interests linked to the spread of the ideology of car use as an expression of economic progress, status and power. In an environment of minimal space, individualistic cultural background and private use of public space, the fragility of risk perception and standards increase insecurity, constant accidents and violent deaths in traffic. Through research it is possible to perceive the spatial distribution of accidents in the city, victimization, the time factor, the main causes and the actions of public authorities acting in transit. The ephemeral enforcement actions preventive and repressive decoupled from policy interventions in urban infrastructure that meets the growing demand for traffic vehicles end up not legitimize the punishment of offenders in traffic naturalizing noncompliance with the standards movement. After ideological analyzes, regulatory, supervisory and understanding of the functioning of urban mobility in the city you can see that there is a need for interventions of a structural nature, road, education and integration between the transport arrangements.