Urban Mobility to Improve the Center of a Brazilian Historic Town

摘要

Like in all Brazilians touristic towns, the main attraction is the urban center with the touristic activities and its history. As peculiarity, this city has many events throughout the year which attract considerable amount of tourists and consequently a large number of cars, occurring conflicts in the street's circulation. This floating population during these events is almost three times bigger than the regular one and change the urban life. In the diagnostic stage, the Mobility Plan analyzed socioeconomic, cultural, environmental, traffic and transport aspects, through information received and collected in the field. The diagnostic addressed the deficiencies and potentialities of this city, which have been translated into maps and illustrative images with the support of GIS software such as ArcGIS. From the diagnosis, a need was identified to analyze two different and specific situations in the city: 1) time of events and weekends, 2) the daily routine of the population, from Monday to Friday. From this emerged the overall objective: to study the circulation of this city and its historical center, allowing the free movement of pedestrians in the historic center, by restricting access of motorized vehicles on a pre-defined perimeter in those crucial moments. Seeking to assist this premise and considering the information collected and analyzed, interventions have been proposed to solve the problems raised. The result of the diagnostic and the proposals were presented at public hearings with community participation in making decisions.