A rede de transporte público como estruturadora de centralidades : análise da cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

There is a growing set of changes in the travel patterns of metropolitan regions, which have induced diffused demands and dispersed destinations, as well as travel between suburbs or in the center-periphery direction. Therefore, to better understand these travel patterns, a description and analysis of a population’s internal displacements within metropolitan territories will be made, with emphasis on the city of Rio de Janeiro. This dissertation contributed to draw attention to another type of approach, which looks not at the morphology of the territory, but at how its different portions are functionally related. This work studies the human displacement patterns in the study area, based on origin and destination data, and in the demographic census. In effect, the main centralities of the metropolitan region are revealed, to discuss how they are articulated with the parcels of the territory. It also discusses the role of the transit network in the context of these phenomena. It was found that the proposed methods present important correspondence with the traditional ones and that the analysis of the influence area of a center is paramount to its characterization. Thus, one can better determine in which regions transport planning should focus on their actions, and then give them appropriate development conditions.