Arbeitspapier

Tendências e desigualdades da mobilidade urbana no Brasil I: O uso do transporte coletivo e individual

In this study we examine how the use of private and public transport has changed since the early 2000s in Brazilian cities. We analyzed data on the changing patterns of consumption of transportation goods and services by Brazilian families over the last 20 years. We also analyzed how urban transportation costs, the demand for public transport, and the country's vehicle fl eet have evolved in that period. All the analyses conducted pointed to a gradual and persistent trend of households moving away from public transportation towards individual modes of transport, mainly among the middle and lower classes in medium and small cities. These changing patterns caused a continuous deterioration of mobility conditions in Brazilian cities, signifi cantly increasing the time people tend to spend in traffi c. Furthermore, we demonstrate how people are unequally affected by poor mobility conditions according to their socioeconomic status, gender, and color. Finally, we show how the economic and public health crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on urban mobility patterns, causing a sharp decline in the numbers of daily public transport passengers across the country. Those fi ndings indicate that the Covid-19 pandemic will likely deepen the vicious cycle of passenger loss and increasing public transport fares, thus accelerating the historical trend of modal shifts from public transportation to individual modes of transport in Brazilian cities. At the end of the study we point to a few urban and transport policies that could help mitigate this trend.

Language
Portugiesisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Texto para Discussão ; No. 2673

Classification
Wirtschaft
Transportation Economics: General
Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Transportation Economics: Government Pricing and Policy
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: General
Subject
urban mobility
public transport
motorization
demand
consumption behavior
inflation
commute time
Covid-19

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Pereira, Rafael H. M.
Warwar, Lucas
Parga, João Pedro Figueira Amorim
Bazzo, João
Braga, Carlos Kauê Vieira
Herszenhut, Daniel
Saraiva, Marcus
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
(where)
Brasília
(when)
2021

DOI
doi:10.38116/td2673
Handle
Last update
10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Pereira, Rafael H. M.
  • Warwar, Lucas
  • Parga, João Pedro Figueira Amorim
  • Bazzo, João
  • Braga, Carlos Kauê Vieira
  • Herszenhut, Daniel
  • Saraiva, Marcus
  • Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)

Time of origin

  • 2021

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