BARRIERS, CHALLENGES, MODAL BIKE POSSIBILITIES IN URBAN TRANSPORT

Abstract

The modal choice of bicycle as a means of transport in urban areas has challenges and barriers to be overcome. This article shows how the world society is still linked to the automobile and how this preference has blocked the provision of infrastructure for active ways (hiking, cycling, skateboarding, roller skates, wheelchair users) to develop as a daily practice in utilitarian travel in the urban environment. From the McClintock Diagram, positive and negative factors of the following barriers to cycling are analyzed: natural, artificial, social, political and urban. In a proposition, it lists the challenges existing in each of the barriers described, presenting possible solutions to be adopted by the administrators and technicians of the municipalities. One of the recommendations of this work is the continuity of activist movements known abroad as critical mass, which in Brazil received the baptism of 'bicycle' by the cycle activists. The main recommendation, however, is the construction of more and better cycling infrastructures, be they bicycle paths, rapid parking of bicycles or bike racks, being significant the implementation of shared public bicycles, as is the case of the action carried out by the municipal administration of Paris.