Interstate Road Transport of Passengers and Intermediate Cities: circulation and interactions in Chapecó, Santa Catarina

• Autor(a) principal: Lemos, João Henrique Zoehler
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Geografia (Londrina)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/geografia/article/view/38809
• topic: Interstate road transport of passengers; Intermediate cities; Chapecó; Urban network; Movement of passengers.; Transporte por carretera interestatal de pasajeros; Ciudades intermedias; Chapecó; Red urbana; Circulación de pasajeros.; Transporte rodoviário interestadual de passageiros; Cidades médias; Chapecó; Rede urbana; Circulação de passageiros.

Contemporary society reproduces itself through continuous movements and relationships between different areas. This condition is expressed above all by the cities, nodes of the urban network, the product of labor relations, of consumption and the movement of the population itself. Given this, in the Brazilian case, the transportation of people by bus is of fundamental importance in the territorial circulation. Considering Chapecó, an intermediate city in the state of Santa Catarina, this paper seeks, from the operations of interstate road transport of passengers to understand what are the regional interactions present in the analyzed city and, jointly, to understand how this means of transport configures itself. The theoretical and conceptual foundation was based on the socio-spatial formation of the Chapecó Region, on the notion of urban network, in addition to current understandings about the transport of passengers by road. The discussion presented helps us to understand this mode of transport as one of several manifestations of regional socio-spatial formation, as well as contributing to the integrated analysis between the urban network and passenger transport.