O USO DA TECNOLOGIA DE MONOTRILHO COMO ALTERNATIVA DE TRANSPORTE URBANO NA REGIÃO METROPOLITANA DE GOIÂNIA.

Abstract

One of the approaches of the term mobility lays upon the link between urban planning, transit and transportation, and the elements and technologies that facilitate the commuting of people and goods throughout the city. Lately, transportation and traffic have become in both, mid-sized and big cities, a barrier to urban and regional development, due to various antagonistic situations experienced when commuting. Management efforts are engendered by the government in an attempt to find solutions for the matter have proved ineffective so far. The city of Goiânia is a city-center hub of activities of a Metropolitan Area, a region with a population of an estimated 2,206,134 residents (IBGE, 2011), and 1,000,000 vehicles cruising its road system (DETRAN, 2001). The struggle for room in the lanes, among passenger cars, freight and passenger transport, is already noticeable during peak hours. The saturation level of the system undermines the effective public passenger transportation. In turn, the management of a Passenger Public-Transportation System that is effectively integrated has failed to reach satisfactory results, considering the organizational traits that have been put in action up to now. This paper proposes an analysis of the deployment of the monorail technology in the Integrated Passenger Public-Transportation in the metropolitan area of Goiânia, by means of a methodology of cost-benefit analysis, depicting a brief characterization of monorail technology, a database on the transport system and the definition of a basic layout of metro route in territorial space. As a product, the result of cost-benefit analysis proposes a basic model of monorail technology implementation in the Metropolitan Public Transport Network in Goiânia, noting advantages and disadvantages of such a model. Last, but not least, final considerations about the methodology and the proposed model will be discussed.