Mobility and Transportation

Methodological contributions to territorial planning.

Abstract

Urban development and transportation have had parallel evolutions; however transportation and urban mobility have been interpreted as sectorial issues. The construction of infrastructures has directed dispersed urban growth and movement reflects functional relations. In the last decades, planning has been assumed after the transformations added to the deficiencies of an urban-territorial planning framework. This context motivates to question the urban organizational-functioning model being objective: "to generate methodological contributions of planning considering the theory of complexity with application to the District of Moreno understanding mobility and public transport in relation to the urban phenomenon". It is intended to offer a proposal that facilitates decisions of local administrations of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires. The relational methodology guides the conceptual linkage that gathers arguments from Rolando García's theory on Complex Global Systems for the generation of a theoretical-methodological construction of planning. Its application is carried out by means of geospatial analysis with Geographic Information Systems supported by external sources and official organisms. As a result, priority areas of intervention are defined to streamline and guide public policies and territorial management, taking into account the multiplicity of territorial scales.