Urban transport policies in Brazil: The creation of a discriminatory mobility system

Vasconcellos, Eduardo Pinheiro Gondim de

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.08.014

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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).…”

Section: Intersectionality and Travel Behaviourmentioning

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Poverty and transport in the global south: An overview

Benevenuto

Caulfield

2019

Transport Policy

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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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Section: Intersectionality and Travel Behaviourmentioning

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Poverty and transport in the global south: An overview

Benevenuto

Caulfield

2019

Transport Policy

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“…New (especially poor) city-dwellers had no choice but to move to the periphery, creating long commutes for jobs, which affected public transport supply and quality. Also, these (unplanned) settlements had/have poor access to urban services, exacerbating existing problems and the stratification of social groups [27]. Climate change is likely to put further pressure on cities' transport systems, and if not properly managed, the pressure will likely be brought to bear on those transport users whose needs are presently not being adequately met by the systems.…”

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Development of an Index of Transport-User Vulnerability, and its Application in Enschede, The Netherlands

Glensor

2018

Sustainability

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An index of accessibility-based vulnerability is created based on a definition of transport-user vulnerability regarding transport accessibility created for the EMPOWER project, in order to assess the project's key performance indicator of the inclusion of vulnerable people in the project's scheme. The objective of the index is to account for various individual vulnerability aspects, but also for the 'multi-dimensionality' of vulnerability, i.e. individuals may be vulnerable because of one specific aspect (e.g., disability), or they may be vulnerable because of multiple aspects which, if assessed in isolation, wouldn't classify the individual as vulnerable. Users of the project scheme in the Dutch city of Enschede are surveyed on, inter alia, their vulnerability based on this definition, according to their income, mobility budget, physical mobility, age, gender, living situation, nation of birth, and education. According to individual questions, 1% to 54% (single parents and females, respectively) of respondents have some level of vulnerability. According to the index, 23-36% of respondents can be considered to be vulnerable. Suitably modified for local conditions, the index is relevant to cities, especially quickly developing cities where congestion reduction is or has been a priority, insofar as it offers a way of measuring and monitoring the vulnerability of the users of their transport system. Finally, steps to adapt the index to other settings (cities or countries) are discussed.

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“…Em comparação internacional, algumas cidades brasileiras foram identi8icadas como aquelas em que o transporte público é, em termos 8inanceiros, o menos acessıvel aos segmentos mais pobres da população, que, dessa forma, tem sua participação em atividades severamente limitada (Carruthers et al, 2005). Apesar de a legislação estabelecer a redução das desigualdades e promover a inclusão social como objetivos estratégicos das polıticas urbanas, a polıtica de transportes no Brasil ainda é considerada socialmente seletiva e altamente excludente (Vasconcellos, 2014). Como em outros lugares do Sul Global (Dimitriou, 1992), argumenta-se que o planejamento de transportes praticado no Brasil é insensıvel às questões sociais, tendendo a favorecer grupos de maior status social (Vasconcellos, 2001).…”

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“…Apesar de a legislação estabelecer a redução das desigualdades e promover a inclusão social como objetivos estratégicos das polıticas urbanas, a polıtica de transportes no Brasil ainda é considerada socialmente seletiva e altamente excludente (Vasconcellos, 2014). Como em outros lugares do Sul Global (Dimitriou, 1992), argumenta-se que o planejamento de transportes praticado no Brasil é insensıvel às questões sociais, tendendo a favorecer grupos de maior status social (Vasconcellos, 2001).…”

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“…Com a possıvel exceção de alguns trabalhos do inıćio dos anos 1990 nos Estados Unidos e no Reino Unido (Dimitriou, 1992;, pesquisas sobre como os planejadores entendem a relação entre transporte e equidade social através da aferição de seus valores, perspectivas e experiências ainda são raros. Alguns estudos tentaram apresentar possıveis fatores para explicar como e por que o planejamento de transportes e a formulação de polıticas podem fomentar as desigualdades nos paıśes em desenvolvimento (Dimitriou, 1992;Vasconcellos, 2001). Estes estudos são revisados mais adiante neste artigo.…”

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O papel da equidade no planejamento de transporte coletivo urbano no Brasil

Guimarães¹,

Lucas²

2019

TRANSPORTES

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Embora a noção de equidade seja considerada primordial no emergente paradigma da mobilidade urbana sustentável, o planejamento da mobilidade tem sido acusado de contribuir para a produção e a consolidação de desigualdades sociais e espaciais relacionadas à provisão e organização do transporte coletivo urbano, principalmente no contexto de países em desenvolvimento. Este artigo investiga em que medida planejadores atuantes em cidades brasileiras estão cientes de iniquidades relacionadas ao transporte e a forma como compreendem o papel do transporte em relação a objetivos sociais. Diferentemente do que a literatura sugere, resultados da survey conduzida para este estudo indicam que, no Brasil, planejadores de transportes reconhecem certas associações entre privação socioeconômica e deficiências na oferta de transporte coletivo urbano, mas não necessariamente identificam no processo de planejamento fatores que levam à produção de desigualdades. Tampouco compreendem a ideia de equidade social como central no paradigma de mobilidade urbana sustentável.

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Urban transport policies in Brazil: The creation of a discriminatory mobility system

Cited by 49 publications

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Poverty and transport in the global south: An overview

Poverty and transport in the global south: An overview

Development of an Index of Transport-User Vulnerability, and its Application in Enschede, The Netherlands

O papel da equidade no planejamento de transporte coletivo urbano no Brasil

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