PASFOR | FORTALEZA’S SUSTAINABLE ACCESSIBILTY PLAN
SUSTAINABLE ACCESSIBILTY PLAN FOR FORTALEZA AND ITS AREAS OF INFLUENCE
Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza – Secretaria Municipal de Infraestrutura – SEINF
May 2018/August 2021
The main objective of the plan was to provide Fortaleza with a sustainable multimodal transport network that promotes accessibility, prioritizes both non-motorized and motorized high-capacity transport in a manner that enhances well-being and life-quality for the people.
For the transport of people, the study area comprehends not only the City of Fortaleza, but the other municipalities that comprise the metropolitan transport system, whereas the transport of cargo is limited only to the municipality of Fortaleza. Altogether 14 municipalities were attended.
In this regard, the plan had impact on the lives of 3.8 million inhabitants, which means that 96% of the overall population in Fortaleza’s Metropolitan Region were being served.
The following were the noteworthy transport systems included : Fortaleza’s Collective Transport System (SIT-FOR); the Metropolitan Region’s Collective Roadway Transport System; and the Metropolitan Region’s Collective Railway System (RMF), which owns the West and South Lines (already in operation) and the East Line, which is under construction.
14
Municipalities attended
3.8 Million
Inhabitants impacted
23 Thousand
Domiciles researched
SERVICES RENDERED
Setec, working in consortium with Oficina Consultores Associados, rendered the following services:
- Overall coordination;
- Field researches;
- Functional projects;
- Roadway and circulation studies;
- Proposal and elaboration of the scenarios for interventions;
- Social and economic assessments of these scenarios.
The studies included:
- Performing researches on Traffic Demand (domicile origin and destination, ringway line, crossing line, volume counting at intersections, pedestrian flow counting, visual occupation, origin and destination/transfer at integration terminals, origin and destination of the metropolitan lines, origin and destination via internet, origin and destination by smartphone);
- Modelling of the supply and demand of transports, and of the intervening systems;
- Having full understanding of the problems related to accessibility in a manner that enables the elaboration of intervening scenarios to solve them;
- Proposing and elaborating the intervention scenarios, as well as the social/economic assessment of these scenarios.