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Citation

de Assis UW, Silva GW. Work 2012; 41: 2169-2174.

Affiliation

After Interior Design, IESB, Institute of Higher Education of Brasilia, uiara_assis@hotmail.com, SGAN 609 -Group D - L2 Av Norte, Brasília (DF), Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, IOS Press)

DOI

10.3233/WOR-2012-1022-2169

PMID

22317037

Abstract

The changes happen quickly in today's world, simultaneously interacting with technological advances in the sciences and new paradigms socio-political and economic, in search of a sustainable future and a present with emergency strategies for the preservation of humanity and the planet "Earth ". Currently, the mobility of people in the intra-urban space is being threatened by congestion, pollution resulting from the appreciation of the culture of personal transport and the precariousness of public transportation. In the city of João Pessoa (PB), the subject of this finding for these disorders. Workers suffer the consequences of daily stress takes to access home-work, difficulty in arriving at the right time to the workplace and adverse reactions caused by pollution. The VLT (Light Rail Vehicle) has been presented as a viable solution to the problems of public transport, with several experiments that can be seen as positive in the world. This work involves the implementation of a public transport system based on VLT Corridor along the Avenue Dom Pedro II, in João Pessoa (PB), aiming to acquire a good transport network for use of the population, reduce the number of vehicles on process, minimize pollution and optimize urban mobility.


Language: en

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