Proposta de indicações para calçadas segundo os objetivos de desenvolvimento sustentável

Abstract

Sidewalks are part of the pedestrian transport infrastructure, as a fundamental urban element of connectivity, playing an important role in the urban mobility system, since they can assume shared locomotion demands with other active transport modes and public collective transport, allowing urban life to happen. Brazil has committed to directing its public policies towards the indicators and targets of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda (SDG 2030), whose purpose for cities is to make them inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Supposedly, qualifying sidewalks with sustainable attributes can incur in decisive collaboration for urban expansion projects and maintenance of the existing infrastructure. This dissertation aimed to identify sidewalks as fundamental infrastructures for the urban mobility system, investigate recent research on the qualitative analysis of sidewalks, in order to constitute a set of indicators capable of measuring the level of sustainability of these urban infrastructures. To this end, a methodology based on a continuous process of systematic literature review was applied to identify the most significant studies on qualitative indicators for evaluating sidewalks published in the Scopus database. In the end, a set of 33 indicators was obtained for qualitative analysis regarding the sustainability of sidewalk infrastructure, a presumably collaborative instrument for governance decision-making that, as a result, could improve resilience to threats to its integrity, stimulate the occupation of sidewalk space and encourage active urban mobility through walking in urban centers.