MOBILIDADE COLABORATIVA NA UFRA: UM ESTUDO DE CASO SOBRE AS INICIATIVAS DE CARONA NO CAMPUS CAPANEMA

Abstract

Noting the relative distance between the shopping center and the Federal Rural University of Amazonia-campus Capanema, it is observed that the displacement of academics has been faced as a challenge for those who have low purchasing power and seek fast and less tiring access. With regard to the commute between their homes and the university, the lack of public transportation in the city, leads us to observe a new concept of mobility in this area, which although recent is already widespread and organized in several other universities by country: shared mobility, which mainly consists of facilitating the travel of those in need by rides, thus reducing the number of cars on the streets and reducing environmental pollution; Given this context the present work aims to analyze the initiatives of hitchhiking at UFRA, which are inserted in the panorama of collaborative mobility of the city, considering its intense need to absorb the needs of this contingent of academics, as to observe the acceptance of students to these initiatives. Thus, the quantitative analysis of the research was performed by collecting data obtained through an online questionnaire, directed to the entire academic community. Based on the analysis of the collected data, the results showed that the university has a high demand of students willing to ride as well as use applications for both solidarity ride and for the use of low cost alternative transport, in an attempt to supply the need for university transport in the municipality of Capanema and facilitate daily life.