Um estudo sobre os acidentes de trânsito de Araguaína - TO envolvendo motociclistas entre (2013-2016).

Abstract

Trafficc accidents (TA) are increasingly common in our everyday lives and the number of its victims is increasing considerably. Thus, this research makes a study on traffic accidents involving bikers in Araguaína-TO between 2013 and 2016. The goals of this research are understanding the major causes of traffic accidents involving bikers in Araguaína-TO, as well as identifying the sites where they occur more frequently and mapping them in order to contribute to their improvement. The major difficulties of this research result from the high rate of accidents involving bikers, which suggest some examination that lead us to try to understand the reason why they exist: Why are there so many accidents? Why are so many bikers involved with those? What are the problems? What is the solution to these problems? What the Government does to reverse or mitigate this situation? This research is both qualitative and quantitative so the methodological procedures used here consist primarily in readings of monographs, articles, books, theses, dissertations, among others, to carry out its theoretical framework, taking into account some authors from the area, such as: Gold (2001), Akishino (2004), Palm & Pereira (2011) and Pereira (2013). Finally, it is believed that this work will have a significant importance for the growth of Araguaina-TO given the regional and urban development, and as well as a source for future research which also seek to bring solutions to the problems regarding transit accidents involving bikers.