RODOVIAS EM áREAS URBANIZADAS E SEUS IMPACTOS NA PERCEP O DOS PEDESTRES / Impacts of highways in urban sites – the pedestrians’ perception

This work presents the results of an opinion poll, applied to the inhabitants of an urban area along theBR-050 highway, in Uberlandia – MG, carried out to estimate the importance of the impacts originatedby the Barrier Effect and its characterization attributes. The Barrier Effect refers to the motorizedtransportation infrastructure impacts over the non-motorized transport. The method applied to thissurvey to determine the importance degree of each variable and its attributes of characterization relatedto the Barrier effect consists of a questionnaire, elaborated according to the Likert recommendations,and with the utilization of the Successive Intervals M ethod to determine the distance of the elements ofa scale. The method which has been considered appropriate and easy to apply produced satisfactoryelements to the proposed analysis. The results show that the highway, inserted in a urban site, limitate theon foot transport for the inhabitants of the surroundings of the highway (effects), resultants of the BarrierEffect. It also was possible to identify the importance of defining attributes of each limitation (causes).