Aplicativo mobile para auxiliar na locomoção de indivíduos que frequentam a Faculdade de Tecnologia da UFAM

Abstract

Urban mobility, according to the São Paulo Urban Mobility Plan, is the ability of individuals to move around the city: the higher their income, the greater their mobility within the public space. In Brazil, there is an increasing demand for fast, efficient and sustainable mobility, due to the increase in the flow of motor vehicles, which can be explained by the technological and industrial development and accelerated urbanization process (Pires, Pires, 2016, apud). SALES et al., 2020). However, the inefficiency of the collective public transport sector causes a reduction in demand for it and an increase in demand for individual motorized transport, a circumstance that was aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic (Ipea, 2021), which can cause a series of environmental problems that harm the population's quality of life and further intensify the problem of urban mobility in the region. Therefore, the present work observed in the academic community of the Faculty of Technology of UFAM an important pole that generates transportation, where students carry characteristics susceptible to the practice of carpooling and face difficulties in using public transport, and developed an application that helps them at the same time. time in which it offers those who own vehicles a sustainable alternative system that organizes routes and encourages the practice of carpooling. The present work was guided by the Double Diamond methodology, which is a Design Thinking process, and in it concepts of usability, user-centered design and Ecodesign were applied. In the end, a high-fidelity prototype of the proposed application was presented as a result, which represents a solution to the problem identified by generating an alternative for users to travel.