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- ISSN: 2333-2581
- Modern Environmental Science and Engineering
The Absence of Territorial Integration and the Operational Deterioration of the BRT Model in Rio de Janeiro: The Case of the Transcarioca Line
Abstract: The communication deals with the problematic functioning of the BRT model in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with a premature and rapid deterioration of its operation and maintenance, causing strong constraints to people’s displacements, and its separate conception of the territory, contradicting its basic premises established by the recently approved Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of Rio de Janeiro (SUMP-Rio). The objective of the study aims to point out the elements that contribute to the configuration of the deterioration, and to analyze the distortion of the service, taking as emblematic example the case of the Transcarioca line, because it crosses denser areas and with greater number and more important and diversified activities and functions. The study has a qualitative characteristic, with direct field observation, combined with secondary data input, with theoretical support in authors of the literature on the subject of transport, who treat it beyond its technical operability, also taking it for its social function and attentive to the issue of social equity and the relationship with the planning of the territory. The Carioca BRT System has failed to fulfill an important and fundamental role of transport systems in contemporary times, by not making urban mobility a decisive element in shaping some possibilities of a more equitable socio-territorial development, which could perhaps contribute to the development of affirmative actions in some of Rio de Janeiro’s most disadvantaged urban areas, helping to build a framework for better social equity.
Key words: transport, territory, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, BRT, deterioration
