The state of the art in urban mobility policies – new perspectives to identify factors that influence failure

Abstract

The analysis in public policies presented a high volume of publications in the last decade, especially for the theme of smart cities, related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG-2030). The diversity of studies stimulated the preliminary survey of the State of the Art to identify the stage of studies on the analysis of public policies for urban mobility, which indicated the predominance of research that reactively analyzes already implemented policies, addressing the themes of governance, centrality and results. The survey also delimited the emergence of new trends, to infer that the cultural phenomenon can become a determining and antecedent element to detect factors that influence the failure of public policies. Culture was defined as practices, habits and attitudinal behaviors, categorized as precedent, inertial and developed, to establish a transversal model of analysis of public policies of urban mobility.   Based on the framework presented, a field test was carried out, through document analysis of a mobility policy in a Brazilian city, to detect factors of failure and resilience from cultural perspective. As a result, the factors in the inertial culture category are difficult to measure preventively, due to failures in mapping precedent cultural factors to foresee solutions. As a contribution, culture is inferred as essential for the proposition of analytical models and in public policy management plans.