The article examines governmental policies for the revitalization of the shipbuilding industry in Brazil since the mid-2000s. It analyzes such policies from the perspective of their political-institutional arrangements. In order to evaluate both the political capacities and...

The paper's main goal is to advance in the knowledge of a key function of the government: the policy coordination. This is even more relevant within the core of the government, which is a set of institutions and actors that provide direct support to implementation of priority actions defined by...

The transport economics literature has indicated that introduction of competition for the market in urban bus services (i.e. by means of competitive bidding) could promote cost-efficiency with low fares and better quality services. Therefore, this paper analyse the main outcomes and the latest...

The objective of this text is to present an overview of the trajectory of the infrastructure policies in Brazil in the recent period (2005-2013). In order to do so, it highlights the main efforts and advances towards the resumption of the role of the federal government in the sector, as well as...

This work aims to study socioeconomic variables related to mortality rates from traffic accidents in Brazil, investigating the effect of economic development and important factors that explain the differentiation of traffic deaths between Brazilian states. It was observed that a higher...

Public transport systems have been losing demand over the last twenty years because mainly growth of individual motorized transport and the real increase in public transport fare prices. The problem is that urban mobility systems are becoming less sustainable. Transport externalities such as...

The purpose of the TD is to evaluate public transport tariff diversification policies considering extra tariff sources focused on the encumbrance of individual transport, IPTU, payroll of employers, among other sources. Based on the POF/IBGE, it is possible to observe the burden on family...

This work sought to identify the socioeconomic, urbanistic and mobility variables that explain the higher relative occurrence of trips by public transport (TPU - transporte público coletivo urbano), individual motorized transport (TI - transporte individual motorizado) and non-motorized...