Atenção?! Pare?! A mobilidade por bicicleta e a relação ambiente urbano - normas de trânsito

Abstract

Although usually associated with means of transport, mobility is a fundamental characteristic of human life and may be expressed in many ways. Human movement through spaces is one of the possible ways of mobility, which changed since the advent of the automobile. While cities made room for cars, the automobile industry, facing a bad reputation in the early 1920s, both introduced the idea of reckless pedestrian and naturalized traffic accidents. The use of bicycle does not escape such logic, which blames the most vulnerable individuals. Given this scenario, the general objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between bicycle users and the environmental and normative aspects of urban traffic. The present work has an exploratory character and applied different techniques of data production due to the complexity of the object, in two stages: 1) place-centered behavioral mapping; 2) person-centered behavioral mapping and interview based on video recordings. The data revealed some forms of relationship: compulsory or optional use of helmet, discourses about the traffic code, body language during cycling and behaviors that do not follow the standards. The results demonstrated that the traffic environments make cyclists adopt movements that sometimes oppose the Brazilian Traffic Code.