O movimento de pedestres no entorno de nós de transportes em São Paulo: o espaço público como ambiente de interconexão entre modais nos casos Consolação/Paulista e Lapa.

Abstract

This academic dissertation proposes to answer the following question "How the quality of public spaces adjacent to transportation nodes can affect the movement of pedestrians in interchange between transport modes, especially metro/bus and train/bus?” The transport nodes are points in urban territory that concentrates and redistributes the travelers of the systems in different directions, and pedestrians are the protagonists of these exchanges that occurs when they use linear or open public spaces for interchange. Consolation/Paulista and Lapa focus upon centralities with significant concentration of employment and demand of transportation and located in the southwestern region of São Paulo. The city territory was developed by an urban model that neglected the importance of the human scale spaces to the detriment of the traffic of automobile. This reality contrasts with the current dynamic of globalization where the evolution of technology and multitude of activities cause effect on the regional and local scale and on the movement of pedestrians in urban areas. The gradual increase of the urban population, individualization of travels and the growth of walk trips require expansion of pedestrian mobility and quality of public spaces. The analysis of this dissertation is divided into two phases; first the analysis of the composition of public spaces and current conditions of its elements in the spaces around the nodes Consolation/Paulista and Lapa to then analyze the movement of pedestrians is presented through a method of observation of public spaces - extracted and adapted from Jan Gehl (2013) researches. The result of this research was to understand how microaccessibility in pedestrian circulation spaces are neglected. The methodology used is a potential tool for researchers and planners, and could be part of the urban planning process for the development of an appropriate urban design. Walking is not considered a transportation mode that integrates with the rest of the transport system and the low quality of interchange spaces impacts on pedestrian movement mainly because there’s no urban design for those specific spaces. The human scale becomes a priority in the planning of the contemporary city and the composition of the adjacent spaces to transport us has a central role in urban mobility and accessibility.