Mobilidade pendular e a integração metropolitana: uma proposta metodológica para os municípios da região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte/MG - 2010

Abstract

It is not unusual for specific academic literature to contain controversies regarding the limits and actual territorial configuration of the metropolitan regions in Brazil. Aside from the lack of consensus and well defined criteria to establish these regional and political-administrative outlines, it seems relevant to consider the meaning of commuting as an indicator of the metropolitan social and economic dynamic. The objective of this article is to investigate the level of integration of the municipalities that make up the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (MRBH), based on the flows of pendular displacement. With information extracted from the sample micro-data of the Demographic Census 2010, the methodology presented made it possible to propose an Index of Metropolitan Integration for each municipality in the region, derived from the Internal Pendularity Ratio, Pendular Connectivity and Nuclear Pendularity In general, the results highlighted some very low levels of integration, especially in the cases of the municipalities of Itatiaiuçu, Itaguara and Baldim.