Um método baseado em crowdsourcing para planejamento de acessibilidade urbana de vias públicas

Abstract

Urban planning aims to design or revitalize public areas to provide better quality of life for the inhabitants. However, planning the city without thinking about the diversity of people moving through spaces can be a disadvantage to people with disabilities who use urban space, since public roads have historically been constructed without considering accessibility in their structures. Applying accessibility to the city structures is a complex task in order to identify the problems faced by citizens and, from this, define what should be the priorities for re-adaptation of spaces and in what ways (re)planning should occur. Considering this urban planning that is worried in gradually include accessibility in urban space, this research proposes the use of a crowdsourcing method between citizens and city halls, in order to make the determination of locations that demand accessibility interventions more efficient. Through this method, it was possible to understand the main mobility problems faced by people with physical disabilities when moving through the city, to develop prototypes of a map-based system to aid urban planning, and to propose a method to evaluate map-based systems that use crowdsourcing as an approach to building and maintaining systems that support citizens.