Urban mobility, conscious transportation aiming sustainability

Abstract

The issues of most concern to experts and governments are, currently, traffic and increasing utilization of vehicles by urban population. The impact on society, human health and environment, occur at local, regional and global areas. Urban landscape, by holding great economic and technological potential, is still compelled to surrender to the pressure from the real estate market to the detriment of the search for the people welfare that live therein. This is the scenario the issue of the urban mobility and its impact on the environment is inserted. Aiming to enable the students, through collective dialogue, to form themselves a reflection on the issue of urban mobility, enabling them to be positioned and sensitize on the importance of daily use of bicycles as means of transport, sport and leisure. Aiming to make the local community to think about, it was adopted an educational intervention to make sensitive to a group, as a starting point for the appropriation of existing public policies aligned to local realities, reflecting the changes needed in the field of environmental education. Therefore, it was performed a short action in which fifty people of the city of Piracicaba (SP) were interviewed. From the content analysis of the interviews, it was evaluated the perception stage of the local population regarding to problems of urban mobility. With all the above, it is possible to conclude that to make feasible the adoption of alternative solutions to solve the current problem of urban mobility, it is essential a collective reflection on the needs that the reality presents.