Novos desafios para a mobilidade urbana sustentável: o estudo de caso do uso da bicicleta em Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The growth of cities over the past few years has put the urban question at the center of discussions about the future of civilization. Issues such as environment, health, economics, and social equity question the way cities are developing today and challenge a new generation of planners to find alternative solutions for more sustainable cities. The mobility of people is one of the issues related to the development of cities because it is about the way that citizens have access to the opportunities that an urban center offers: employment, services, culture, leisure, etc. Today, the planning paradigm, which prioritizes the displacement of automobiles to the detriment of other means of transportation, needs to be questioned and new alternatives must be presented to societies where collective and active transportation prevail. Once removed from central public spaces and forgotten by the more dominant social classes, the bicycle reappears in the urban scene as the best response to achieve sustainable mobility especially when associated with public transport. The purpose of this paper is understood the new relationships in the city that bicycle when used as transportation can create for new policies in favor of cycling to be formulated. It is noticed that there is a difficulty in the application of the legislation and public resources in actions directed to the active transport. The research uses Belo Horizonte's experience in implementing an efficient cycling network that can meet users needs and stimulate the presence of new cyclists in the city