Transporte Público no Rio De Janeiro: estudo sobre usos e ritmos a partir do bairro de Realengo

Abstract

Urban mobility has been the subject of many debates around the world and, in Rio de Janeiro, this was no different, as it was showed by the incorporation of elements, on the public agenda, that associated investments in this sector with mega-events, between 2010 and 2016, especially during Eduardo Paes’s government. However, these investments took place, without necessarily bringing resolutions to the problems of the peripheral areas of the city. In this sense, this study aims to present elements for assessing the use and pace of public transport in the neighborhood of Realengo, located on AP5, up to large areas of commercial influence and provision of services in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Central do Brasil and Barra da Tijuca. The relationship between public transport, urban mobility and public policies was used to prepare this research and to analyze the data collected, through virtual questionnaires and photographic records in field work about the quality of access, use and rhythms of public transport, according to Realengo’s residents. To demonstrate data on the pace of transport, a survey of transport circulation was carried out, using three applications, Google Maps, Mooovit, and Trafi, over the course of a week. As a conclusion, it’s pointed out that the use, quality and pace of public transport reveals difficulties in access and precariousness of the service, which is associated with aspects of the peripheral urban condition of Realengo and the unequal production model of the urban Carioca, which is based on public transport policies that do not provide direct resolutions for the problem, but are linked to the idea of an entrepreneurial city.