Immobility in Rio de Janeiro, beyond poverty

Motte-Baumvol, Benjamin; Nassi, Carlos David

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.06.012

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“…What is the relevance of this? Centralization of economic activities in Global South cities, land regulations and housing market dynamics have caused self-reinforcing cycles of social and spatial inequality in terms of access to economic, cultural and social development opportunities, particularly in low-income areas [14,25,26]. We implement contour measure accessibility [6,27] to confirm if the changes of public transport system carried out in recent years in Bogotá, improve the accessibility levels across the urban territory, and/or create disparities between users of the same transport mode at different socioeconomic strata (SES, estratos in Spanish.…”

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Accessibility Changes: Analysis of the Integrated Public Transport System of Bogotá

2018

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Bogotá, a paradigmatic case of urban (re)development driven by transport interventions, began transforming its public transport system anew in mid-2010. It was not until 2012 when a gradual implementation of the new integrated public transport system of Bogotá (SITP in Spanish) began. By 2015, about 74% of the new bus routes were implemented. The considerable changes in supply and operational models for public transport during this period redefined travel conditions, having a direct impact on accessibility. Our research analyzes observable changes in accessibility to jobs and houses at both the home and work ends of trips as a result of differences in travel time for respondents to a household travel survey in Bogotá between 2011 and 2015. The paper presents a cross-sectional analysis of accessibility changes, pinpointing low accessibility levels facilitated by the current public transport system to the most deprived groups of Bogotá. Results are presented as access curves by socioeconomic levels and zones that estimate the time required to access workplaces via public transport. Results show that the location of low-income settlements implies a disadvantage as a consequence of spatial segregation that increases distances to job-opportunities. Five years after the implementation of the SITP, public transport in Bogotá still fails to improve accessibility, reinforcing gaps between rich and poor groups instead of closing them.

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Accessibility Changes: Analysis of the Integrated Public Transport System of Bogotá

2018

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“…The second major aspect found was that transport policies targeting these people should first consider the impact of income poverty on travel patterns (Vasconcellos, 2018;Sadhu and Tiwari, 2016;Motte-Baumvol and Nassi, 2012;Lau, 2010). Some authors have demonstrated empirically that in many regions the concept of travel choice cannot be applied to people living in extreme income poverty, because mostly there is no choice, but walking (Sadhu and Tiwari, 2016;Salon and Gulyani, 2010;and Cook et al, 2005).…”

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Poverty and transport in the global south: An overview

Benevenuto

Caulfield

2019

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The primary objective of the United Nations Development Programme to 2030 is to lift more than 736 million people out of extreme poverty (UN, 2019). In this sense, this paper addresses the potential contributions of transport policies to poverty reduction in the Global South. Several studies addressing this topic are qualitatively assessed through an extended version of Church et al's (2000) framework of transport-related exclusion. Insights on topics that pervade the interactions between transport and poverty are discussed to shed light on how transport policies can effectively tackle the intergenerational poverty transfer. Finally, this work concludes by connecting such insights and gaps of literature to propose a convergence of the reviewed studies emphasising the importance and urgency of a new standard of transport policies strongly committed to eradicating poverty.

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“…Os moradores de áreas periféricas geralmente encontram-se distantes dos serviços básicos e da rede de transporte, e têm que percorrer longas distâncias para acessá-los (Vignoli, 2008). Devido às barreiras e aos altos custos de viagem, muitas famílias de baixa renda limitam ou renunciam a certos tipos de viagens, diminuindo seu acesso a oportunidades de acesso ao trabalho, saúde, educação, e lazer, resultando em uma qualidade inferior de vida e diminuindo suas possibilidades de sair da pobreza (Lucas, 2012;Motte--Baumvol & Nassi, 2012). A mobilidade é, portanto, um elemento fundamental para modificar a condição de segregação socioespacial.…”

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Espraiamento urbano e exclusão social. Uma análise da acessibilidade dos moradores da cidade do Rio de Janeiro ao mercado de trabalho

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resumo | O espraiamento urbano modificou o padrão de deslocamento da população, que passou a habitar regiões menos urbanizadas, gastando mais tempo no transporte para acessar as oportunidades da cidade. Nesse contexto, pretende-se mensurar a acessibilidade ao mercado de trabalho de distintas áreas da cidade do Rio de Janeiro para entender qual seria a influência da localização e da infraestrutura de transporte disponível. Para isso, foi utilizado um índice de oportunidades acumuladas para medir a acessibilidade das 33 Regiões Administrativas. Os resultados mostram uma distribuição desigual da acessibilidade, onde as regiões mais afastadas do centro urbano apresentam menor acessibilidade, devido à alta concentração de empregos nas áreas centrais e as grandes distâncias do centro as áreas periféricas. Assim, conclui-se que investimentos em transporte público devem ser feitos em paralelo com medidas de descentralização e melhor distribuição das oportunidades de trabalho pela cidade para melhora da acessibilidade.palavras-chave | expansão urbana, mercado de trabalho, transporte urbano.abstract | Urban sprawl has changed the pattern of population displacement. People now inhabit less urbanized regions, spending more time in public transports to have access to the city's facilities. In this context, this research focuses on measuring the job accessibility of different areas of Rio de Janeiro city to understand what would be the influence of people's location and public transports availability. We used a cumulative opportunity indicator to measure the accessibility of the 33 Administrative Regions of Rio de Janeiro. The results show an unequal distribution of accessibility, in which the farthest regions from the urban center have less accessibility, due the high concentration of jobs in the city center and the greater distances between the city center and peripheral areas. Thus, investments in public transportation must be done as a parallel measure to the decentralization and improvement of job distribution throughout the city to improve accessibility. keywords | urban sprawl, labor market, urban transportation.

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Immobility in Rio de Janeiro, beyond poverty

Cited by 35 publications

References 28 publications

Accessibility Changes: Analysis of the Integrated Public Transport System of Bogotá

Accessibility Changes: Analysis of the Integrated Public Transport System of Bogotá

Poverty and transport in the global south: An overview

Espraiamento urbano e exclusão social. Uma análise da acessibilidade dos moradores da cidade do Rio de Janeiro ao mercado de trabalho

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