Abstract
In this article we have sought to identify strategies to facilitate urban mobility planning in Brazilian cities. These plans follow bold guidelines, such as giving priority to active and collective public transport modes. The challenge, therefore, is to overcome the resistance of social agents who are unwilling to make sacrifices for the benefit of the community. Among the methodological procedures, the authors analyze the main challenges facing urban mobility in Brazil, introduce Mancur Olson's ideas on the logic behind collective action to transport engineering and evaluate two proposals for an urban mobility pact: that of the then President Dilma Rousseff and that of the Ipea. The result of this analysis points to the need for an urban mobility pact following “win-win” reasoning. A pact that involves not only the public authorities, but also various private social agents, and according to “win-win” reasoning: they win if they participate and the community wins with their participation.
Highlights
In this new century, the matter of urban mobility is taking on increasing urgency in political and technical discussion within Brazil, in view of the growing negative impact of congestion on people's quality of life and on municipal economies
There is a brief discussion of the urban mobility situation in Brazil and about the federal requirement for municipalities to draw up urban mobility plans
Urban mobility in Brazil follows the norm of developing countries around the world, with the migration of passengers from public mass transit (PMT) to individual motorized transport, increased motorization rate and, the growing negative consequences of the use of cars and motorcycles – congestion, accidents and pollution
Summary
The matter of urban mobility is taking on increasing urgency in political and technical discussion within Brazil, in view of the growing negative impact of congestion on people's quality of life and on municipal economies. Balbim et al (2013b) provide a good de inition of what an urban mobility pact would be like It would involve “speci ic elements and solutions that, by coming together in a system and through negotiated agreements and the support of various agents, can effectively transform a social situation of precariousness and immobility”. That is precisely the objective of this article: to identify the elements necessary for the formulating of an effective urban mobility pact that can make urban mobility plans feasible and transform the quality of mobility within Brazilian cities. This article is divided into ive parts Following this introduction, there is a brief discussion of the urban mobility situation in Brazil and about the federal requirement for municipalities to draw up urban mobility plans.
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