Transport, Public Policy and Urban Mobility: the challenges of measuring the implementation of an exclusive bus lane
Urban mobility; Public transportation; Exclusive bus lane; Public decision-making
Nowadays, actions to prioritize public transport, to the detriment of the individual have been subject to decisions by the Public Administration in order to attract, recover and/or retain users of this transportantion. In turn, an implementation of exclusive bus lanes is an example of this public policy of prioritization in order to ensure the improvement of this service, as they contribute to the reduction of travel time, maintains reliability, relieves congestion, reduce traffic fuel consumption and others. In this way, this research aims explore the public and open data of the city of Belo Horizonte in order to discuss the effectiveness of the implementation of exclusive bus lanes regarding the city's mobility problem. In order to achieve this goal, it was necessary to establish a theoretical framework that would conceptually support the research on the public decision making processes in Public Administration, the public transport system by bus and the implementation of exclusive lanes. For the methods, it was decided to conduct a quantitative research through descriptive statistical analysis of data obtained in BHTRANS.The results related to the effectiveness of the implementation of exclusive bus lanes were that, based on the available data, deficiencies were found that hampered the analysis, such as the fact that the databases made available by BHTRANS were preliminarily synthesized and processed, the which made methodological explorations of the phenomenon impossible, making it impossible to say whether public policy is effective or not.