Análise do índice de caminhabilidade da Rua do Acampamento, bairro Centro, Santa Maria-RS

Abstract

This paper presents a study of Acampamento Street’s walkability rate, located downtown Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Through this work, it is sought to bring benefits to urban mobility in the city and to pedestrians. The diagnosis was carried out through the application of Walkability Rate 2.0 – Tool (iCam 2.0), developed by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy of Brazil. iCam 2.0 has fifteen indicators – width; paving; blocks dimension; distance on foot to transportation; physically permeable facades; visually active facades; daytime use and nocturnal use; mixed uses; street typology; crossings; lighting; daytime and nocturnal stream of pedestrians; the shade and shelter; noise pollution; and sanitation and cleanness – gathered in six categories – sidewalk, mobility, attraction, road security, public security and environment. In order to make the field inventory, the thoroughfare was fragmented in fifteen sidewalk segments. The data were processed and it was given scores to the sidewalk segments, to the indicators, to the categories and, finally, to iCam 2.0. In a scale of 0 to 3, less than 1 score means insufficient, a score between 1 and 2 means sufficient, a score between 2 e 3 means good, and the highest score means great. At the end of the experiment, it was found a general score of 1.32, that is, sufficient. The obtained results show the current street situation offers risks to pedestrians who walk around the place and it was concluded that there is a necessity of foremost short-term intervention in Acampamento Street.