The current Amazonian context characterized by dispersed metropolitan dynamics led to the conformation of new urban spatial arrangements that began to interfere in the conditions of urban mobility and city planning. In this process, the Metropolitan Region of Belém (RMBN) since the mid-1980s has shown a significant population growth in the central areas of the municipalities and peripheral areas, forming a dispersed metropolis with new residential settlements especially located along the the main urban roads of access to the more urbanized portion of the Municipality of Belém, the capital of the State of Pará. The municipality of Belém began to present a dispersed and fragmented character by creating new vectors of expansion beyond its officially boundaries of the metropolitan area. The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of metropolitan dispersion on urban mobility and to identify the main actions of public policies for urban transport corridors in view of the high intercity movements that occurred mainly along Avenu Almirante Barroso and Highway BR- 316, which form the main access roads to Belém. In order to reach these objectives, from the methodology of research in official documents and interviews with managers, three central contribution of analysis were established: The production of new housing spaces, the planning of Belém (PDU / PDTU) and public policies for the Public Passenger Transport System (PPST) for the RMB. It is concluded that the metropolitan dispersion implied in the existence of a population that moves pendularly toward the place of work and the spaces of consumption of diverse goods and services. In this sense, there is a daily mobility of the population among the municipalities of the RMB consolidated by the strong relationship between the periphery and the central area of the metropolis. It is inferred that such a relationship began to present a new metropolitan configuration, in the face of which urban planning actions and public management for urban mobility have privileged the trunk road corridor connecting the municipalities of the RMB, located in the urban area but also fundamental for the fragmented, dispersed and discontinuous environment. Finally, it is suggested that urban mobility should be treated in an integrated way to the urban management, seeking the best performance of the mobility conditions between the cities polarized by the metropolis.
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