Potencial cicloviário: um estudo de caso entre as avenidas Marcelino Pires e Weimar Gonçalves Torres em Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

Abstract

The bicycle is considered a sustainable means of transport, as it does not emit polluting gases during the journey and can also be an economical and facilitated alternative to the unbridled traffic of motor vehicles that increasingly occupy and congest city streets. As a way to seek and encourage nonmotorized means of transport, this work aims to analyze the cycling potential of the city of Dourados in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, more specifically for two important avenues: Marcelino Pires and Weimar Gonçalves Torres. The study was divided into two stages. In the first one, a study about the characteristics of the city was approached in a more comprehensive way, analyzing criteria such as relief, climate and size, obtaining a certain level of potential. In the second stage, data and information were collected for each of the two avenues in question, scoring according to the criteria of technical feasibility, road safety, ease of bicycles, adaptability and spatial and environmental quality, obtaining the results of partial potentials for each of these criteria in each avenue. Thus, the results obtained were satisfactory for the first stage, resulting in a very high cycling potential for the city, and also satisfactory for the second stage, more specifically for Marcelino Pires avenue which received high cycling potential, whereas Weimar Gonçalves Torres avenue obtained an average capability. In the end, this work can also help the city's public bodies in the planning and development of future cycle transport routes.