Ferramenta de Pesquisa colaborativa para auxiliar á tomada de decisão e melhorar a acessibilidade de pessoas com deficiência ao transporte público

Abstract

From the empirical observation of the difficulties faced by people with disabilities (PWD) in the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR) came the idea of contributing to its reduction. In this sense, understanding what it is to be a PWD should be the beginning for the development of technological tools, laws or any other attitudes aimed at offering better living conditions to these people. Another concept that is necessary is accessibility, since this is directly linked to the day to day of the PWD. The main objective of this work was to collaborate to improve the accessibility of people with disabilities to public transport in the Metropolitan Region of Recife (RMR), collecting information on the use of bus stops and integrations, conditions of use and the difficulties faced in transportation by these users. The research was done through a questionnaire built in the collaborative tool Survey123 and exposed in the Dashboard, both of the ArcGIS Enterprise Platform. The distribution happened through the Whatsapp application to a group of people responsible for passing on to the other PWD. The numbers obtained so far from the preparation of the work, from the answers received, were not representative of the number of PWD that is a user of VEM Free Access. This was due to the short time since the release to users until the end of the author’s participation in the extension project, the COVID-19 pandemic and the fear that some of the users demonstrated in responding to the questionnaire.