Potencial de desenvolvimento orientado ao transporte sustentável na avenida João XIII, em Teresina (PI)

Abstract

Transit-Oriented Development – TOD is an urban planning and landscape strategy which goals are to organize compact neighborhoods with high demographic density, land use diversity, and the offering of public services and space to provide socializing and reduce car dependency. The “Plano Diretor de Ordenamento Territorial de Teresina” showed the intention of achieve this objective with the inclusion of guidelines to stop urban perimeter expansion and to promote the territory densification to occupate uninhabited places and mix land use in the structural network mobility. This paper goals to avaliate, considering ITDP Brasil metology, the potencial of sustainable development according to TODs principal, in transport corridor “Avenida João XXIII”, located in Teresina, Piauí. In addition to discuss the definitions of “sustainable development” and “TODs” and understanding their principles and elements; understand the dynamics of urban growth in the capital of Piauí in recent decades; and suggest management strategies and possible uses in the areas identified with the greatest TODs potential. To this end, the methodological procedures include exploratory research of the bibliographic and documentary type, in addition to quantitative and qualitative research composed of observational and statistical methods. The results demonstrate that the corridor Av. João XXIII has high potential for sustainable transport-oriented development. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of the methodology were analyzed, pointing out strategies and suggestions for urban planning, governance and urban design capable of qualifying the study area.