The public policies on mass transit and other economic policies have been unable to avoid increasing mass transit costs and urban bus fares, which places a burden on a majority of the population depending on public transit. This study analyzes the variations in urban bus fares and households...

This text analyzes Brazilian families spending with public and private urban transport based on family budget surveys conducted by IBGE in 2003 and 2009. It was observed that on average Brazilian families spend about 15% of their income on urban transportation. Private transport expenses are...

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...

This article deals with a study on the different ways of financing the cost of urban public transport services. In Brazil, the financing of public transport is only supported by fare collection, which brings great social inequities and a financial crisis to the system. The authors defend tariff...

This discussion paper presents a comparative analysis of the market structure and charging of the main public services charged, considering some tariff charging parameters raised for each of them. The services considered in the analysis are sanitation, waste, transport, energy and telephony...

This Discussion Paper presents an overview of the granting of transportation assistance to Brazilian working heads of families based on data from the IBGE 2018-2019 Family Budget Survey. It was shown that people from the lowest social strata, with less education and income, are precisely those...

The public policies on mass transit and other economic policies have been unable to avoid increasing mass transit costs and urban bus fares, which places a burden on a majority of the population depending on public transit. This study analyzes the variations in urban bus fares and households...