Urban mobility is the condition created for people being able to move between different areas of a city. Currently, private cars and public transport are the most used means of urban mobility.
Cars, however, represent a major problem for the quality of urban mobility, especially in large urban centers and metropolises.
When there is no correct urban planning and investment in alternatives to the use of highways as a means locomotion, cities suffer from overpopulation of cars, which in turn are responsible for "swelling on the roads", causing traffic jams and harming society's quality of life.
See also:meaning of metropolis.
Urban mobility in Brazil
Brazil is one of the countries that suffers most from urban mobility problems, precisely because it has a history of urban planning based on the highway model, that is, a large investment in the expansion and improvement of highways.
On the other hand, public transport in most Brazilian cities is of poor quality, causing citizens to seek to purchase a car particular, since there are several facilities for buying cars in the country in recent years, mainly thanks to the phenomenon of mobility Social.
Large Brazilian capitals are the ones that suffer most from the crisis in urban mobility, such as the city of São Paulo, for example. It is estimated that people from São Paulo spend up to 45 days a year stopped in traffic, an absurd number for those looking for quality of life.
The high concentration of cars also drastically increases environmental pollution, which is one more reason to implement sustainable alternatives for urban mobility in the country.
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Sustainable urban mobility
It consists of an alternative to avoid the problems caused by "road swelling" due to the high number of cars on the roads, which impede or hinder the flow of urban mobility in large cities.
For this, the proposals for sustainable urban mobility involve the implementation or reinforcement of systems of rail transport, such as subways, trains, electric trams, cable cars, among others.
In addition, another option would be to encourage the use of alternative and non-polluting means of transport, such as bicycles, for example. But for this to be possible, governments need to invest in construction of cycle lanes and cycle paths with quality.
Sustainable urban mobility also aims to improvement in pedestrian locomotion, with the planning of sidewalks that are safe and comfortable (level, without holes and other inopportune obstacles, for example).
