Modelagem espacial para a definição de regiões urbanas homogêneas incorporando recentes dados demográficos e de oferta de infraestrutura rodoviária

The objective of this study was to develop spatial models for the definition of Functional Urban Regions (FURs) proposed by Manzato and Rodrigues da Silva (2010) and Ajauskas et al . (2012) through the incorporation of demographic and road infrastructure supply data related to the year 2010, which became available recently. This enabled a new estimation of the parameters with additional data, providing an update of those models. The methodology was based on spatial statistics and spatial modeling techniques. The results of the models developed here demonstrated that the incorporation of the new data secured a consistency equivalent to the previous models proposed by the cited authors. In particular, the performance of two models, both incorporating road infrastructure supply, was higher in the analyses involving the municipalities classified in the quadrant HH of the Moran scatterplot. This demonstrates the potential of the approach based on the combination of demographic and transport infrastructure supply indicators for the definition of FURs.