THE INTERSTATE ROAD TRANSPORT OF PASSENGERS IN THE URBAN NETWORK OF SOUTHERN REGION: AN ANALYSIS ABOUT THE SMALL CITIES

• Autor(a) principal: Lemos, João Henrique Zöehler
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Santos, Bruno Candido dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: GeoTextos (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/geotextos/article/view/43816
• topic: Urban network; Socio-spatial formation; Passengers circulation; Interstate road transport; South region; Rede urbana; Formação socioespacial; Circulação de passageiros; Transporte rodoviário interestadual; Região Sul

The road passenger transport in Brazil plays an important social function as a public service by providing a broad set of displacements of people, cargo and information across displacements through most Brazilian states and regions. This is an important economic activity for the national territory because it reveals a variety of spatial interactions covering the country’s complex urban network. The flexibility of the road bus and the capillarity of the service are central for the service to cities of varying sizes, because it allows the connection between urban centers with less than five thousand inhabitants until the connection between metropolises like Brasília/ DF, Rio de Janeiro/RJ and São Paulo/SP. This article will discuss such displacements of people by the road modal from the analysis that will contemplate the small towns in the Southern region of Brazil, with socio-spatial formation as the basis for understanding the dynamics related to the of the dynamics related to the snippet and understanding of its articulations with the territorial division of labor. In this context, the importance of long-distance road connections that include dozens of cities on their routes stands out.