Commuting And Space Arrangement Consumption: exploring the back-and-forth commuting

• Autor(a) principal: Ojima, Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Monteiro, Felipe Ferreira, Nascimento, Tiago Carlos Lima do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Paranaense de Desenvolvimento (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ipardes.emnuvens.com.br/revistaparanaense/article/view/679
• topic: Urbanization. Commuting. Timeframe shifts. Space arrangement consumption. Urban planning.; Urbanización. Desplazamientos. Diferencia horaria. Consumo del espacio. Urbanismo.; Urbanização. Deslocamentos pendulares. Tempo de deslocamento. Consumo do espaço. Planejamento urbano.

Brazil is a country already in an advanced stage of urban transition and has recently undergone to a significant expansion of its fleet of vehicles, reflected by credit release, but also by a favorable demographic vessel condition of distribution, age rating of the population and household mobility consumption increase. As a matter of fact, life in big cities has escalated to a sequence of traffic jams, mainly for the lack of significant investments on public transportation. From this scope, the back-and-forth commuting timeframe basis turns to the key element of contemporary urban life and presents reflections not only in big cities, but gradually is extended towards the non-metropolitan with the increasing importance of commuting in these contexts.