Identifying mobility patterns of socioeconomic classes in a transportation context case study : São Carlos -SP (Brazil)

Abstract

This article presents the results of a study in São Carlos (Brazil), whose goal was the characterization of mobility patterns associated with socioeconomic classes. This study helps to understand the relations between mobility patterns and socioeconomic classes and aims to demonstrate the modal choice distribution in an urban region by analyzing the socioeconomic characteristics of households. Information from an OD Survey, made in 2007, was used as database. After a geospatial location process, elaborated with a help of Geographic Information System (GIS), the database was analyzed qualitatively, in order to obtain the mobility patterns of each socioeconomic class, considering gender, age, modal choice and distance traveled. Results showed that (i) differences between modal choices in each daily trip depend on the user class; (ii) divergences between distance traveled and modal choice considering gender and age was observed in the daily trip.