Direito à cidade e mobilidade urbana: uma avaliação de implementação da política nacional de mobilidade urbana (Lei Nº 12.587/12) no município de Mossoró-RN

Urban mobility is today one of the main concerns of public power with regard to urban planning in contemporary cities and metropolises. The recurrence of environmental, economic and public health impacts related to air pollution, traffic jams and accidents, in addition to the inequity in the distribution and use of transport modes and services by the population, has forced the government to seek, propose and apply solutions that presuppose new forms of perception, planning and intervention aligned with environmental sustainability and more democratic forms of occupation and use of urban space. With the aim of improving the mobility conditions of people in cities, reinforcing criteria of equity, security, accessibility and sustainability, the National Policy for Urban Mobility - NPUM (Law Nº 12.587/12) delegates to the Municipalities the task of plan and execute the Urban Mobility Policy, prioritizing collective public transport and non-motorized modes of locomotion, such as walking and cycling. Faced with this, the research "Right to the city and urban mobility: an evaluation of the implementation of the National Urban Mobility Policy (Law No. 12,587/12) in the Municipality of MossoróRN" had as its main objective to evaluate the implementation of the guidelines of the PNMU in Mossoró between the years 2012 -date of enactment of the Law- and 2021, based on four of the main guidelines expressed in the Law. They are: (1) on the planning, evaluation and implementation of the PNMU in the municipality; (2) regarding the training of people and institutions related to mobility; (3) regarding the provision of public transportation; and (4) in terms of integrated infrastructure focused on collective and non-motorized modes of locomotion. To achieve the proposed objective, bibliographic review procedures were used based on relational themes, such as “urban mobility”, “public policies” and “public policy evaluation”; document analysis of Law nº 12.587/12, highlighting the attributions of the Municipalities; comparison ...