Os desafios do transporte público em Araguaína - Tocantins.

Abstract

Public transportation is configured as an indispensable factor for the good efficiency of various sectors of the economy because it is an instrument of development. By means of this investigation it is intended to collect information identifying the difficulties as well as the positive coefficients that allow people to use more and more public transportation by means of the service rendered by the concessionaire Passaredo in Araguaína -To, conceiving the enlargement of boarding and disembarking of people at bus stops, expansion of routes in new routes, addition of extra buses during rush hours on the 14 circulating lines, adjusting to the new commercial and social reality of the city. The objective is to expose the challenges, guarantees, economic, social, emotional, and sustainable impacts, recognizing that public transportation is not the pivot of the negative scenario built by the Araguainenses. In this context, the investigation consisted of an exploratory documentary research, as well as a case study of the Passaredo Concessionaire service provider in public transport in the city, through site visits, open questionnaires, interviews, reading of normative data in public agencies, informative data in newspapers, magazines, local blog, in addition to exploring all digital channels on websites, social networks, and repositories of some universities in order to raise hypotheses and suggestions for collective improvements promoting urban mobility, sustainability, quality of life, and long-term benefits.