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TOPIC:
Over the next two decades, concern about sustainability, climate change and health will stimulate even more European cities to increase their cycling share in everyday transportation. In relation to these challenges and globalized world, bicycle culture will have to have bigger a bigger impact in fast-growing cities located in the developing countries like Brazil. Currently there is only a 1% bicycle modal share in Brazil’s biggest cities and a lack of a safe environment for cycling might influence this stagnancy. Quality of life will be determined by the quality of their cities and those spaces.
OBJECTIVES:
Pelotas is currently working to develop and implement a mobility plan, which is required by law.As a part of this mobility plan, they need to look strategically at how different mobility modes can be developed in the city including planning for cycling. The low social status of the bicycle in developing countries restricts the level of public investment in necessary infrastructure. This diminishes the use of the bicycle. I will explore how bold experiments that are cheap to try out are essential to convince stakeholders, based on the case studies from Europe, where cycling is a transportation option to all social classes. This study will contribute to my understanding of how is it look like to work in the different cultural context country, while working in the future in the consultancy company.
METHODOLOGY:
I will create a questionnaire before going to Brazil in order to understand local cycling habits as well I will read related bibliography, which will be give me a solid background to be further develop. Based on the google street view I will georeferenced those images to be then compare with the current situation. While being in Pelotas I will interview local activist about the changes made in infrastructure and make photographs of all the bicycle links, pointing them out in the Pelotas cycle map, from the perspective of a cyclist. That will be a base to explore exciting alternative techniques for supporting a cycling culture, and infrastructure that might change social perceptions of the bicycle.
individual research project
as a part of:
BRAZILURBANDESIGNSTUDY
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