Revista Transporte y Territorio, conceived as a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary publication, is primarily aimed at the Argentine and Ibero-American academic community. However, it is also open to receiving contributions and proposals from readers in other geographical or sectoral fields, including business, civil society organizations, and policymakers.
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Las arenas de la caminata en ciudades de América Latina
La caminata se ha vuelto, especialmente en el siglo XXI, un tema central en las agendas de las ciudades latinoamericanas (Cunha Linke et al., 2018; Quiñones et al., 2017; Rivas y Serebrisky, 2022; Van Laake y Moscoso, 2019). Se valora como un modo de desplazamiento saludable y no contaminante, en línea con los discursos y recomendaciones internacionales sobre movilidad sostenible. Asimismo, constituye un elemento clave en los debates sobre urbanismo de proximidad, densificación y diversidad de usos del suelo (Moreno, 2023).
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Cuando los cuerpos expandidos se mueven: una reflexión disca sobre la ciudad
Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean have been built in layers. Territorial inequalities are evident in areas that are inaccessible to everyone, particularly people with disabilities and the elderly. The experience of the city involves a variety of strategies for inhabiting spaces and achieving mobility. The research results, which reflect work carried out in Costa Rican cities, present three central aspects of habitability: protection, orientation, and space organization. These aspects are experienced differently by people with disabilities. This work aims to ensure that these dimensions are considered in the design of spaces, as well as in the use and management of cities, to achieve physical, communication, and information accessibility.
Movilidad. Discapacidad. Urbanismo. Habitabilidad. Cuerpo.
Copyright (c) 2025 Laura Paniagua https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
La percepción social de la infraestructura ciclista y las acciones complementarias en su implementación. Caso de estudio: Avenida Universidad, Querétaro
On the sustainable transport policies, the bicycle promotion is one of its main aims, and one action is the cycling infrastructure construction, which not always well socially accepted. The paper analyzes the social perception of a bike lane, considering its users and neighbors, in order to compare how it is perceived by user group and the complementary actions required to contribute to its success. Through questionnaires focused in the users and statistical techniques to data analysis, the results shown the diverse perceptions and road needs, with the priority for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users their safety and comfort. While for motorists, is the traffic lights and road maintenance. Thus, contribute in the socialization approaches for the bike lane construction, helping to reach the sustainable public policies. The results shown that, to reach the goals in sustainable policies the infrastructure projects need to include integral actions.
Copyright (c) 2025 Saúl Antonio Obregón Biosca https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Movilidad peatonal y justicia territorial: un enfoque comparativo a partir de las encuestas Origen-Destino en tres áreas metropolitanas latinoamericanas
This article comparatively analyzes walkability in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Montevideo based on the most recent Origin-Destination surveys (2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively), with the goal of understanding how and where walking is more or less possible in unequal urban contexts. The research crosses pedestrian mobility data with territorial information drawn from O-D surveys, focusing on comparisons between center and periphery, different household arrangements, and the extremes of socioeconomic distribution, in order to reveal structural inequalities in pedestrian access to the city. Walking is understood as a daily practice embodied in the body, shaped by emotions, time, and material conditions that differ between men and women. This ambivalence is expressed both in walking as a healthy and accessible option and in its experience as a forced choice due to the lack of efficient, safe, or comfortable alternatives - especially among low-income women. The analysis also questions the place of walking in public policy, highlighting how certain urban decisions can perpetuate or transform territorial injustices. Thus, the relevance of O-D surveys is reinforced as key tools for making inequalities visible and guiding policies toward fairer mobility.
movilidad peatonal. género y movilidad. encuestas Origen-Destino. América Latina. desigualdades socioespaciales.
Copyright (c) 2025 Barbara Mendes, Mateus Humberto, Marina Grinover, Monaliza Pinheiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The worsening of socio-spatial, gender, and racial inequalities has demanded a profound theoretical and practical revision in the field of mobility planning. Critical debate reveals the marginalization of social groups, territories, and everyday spatial practices, rooted in patriarchal, racist, and Eurocentric values. In Latin America, care-related mobility is predominantly carried out by marginalized women, whose primary mode of transportation is walking, often combined with public transit. However, the lack of understanding of how the differentiated daily mobility experiences of this specific group are shaped, alongside positivist and technocratic assumptions, devalues non-hegemonic ways of being and existing in space. In this article, I present the characteristics of caregivers and pedestrians in the peripheries of Brazil, highlighting the material aspects of walkability involved in care mobility. I propose a discussion on the invisibility of care-related travel in origin-destination surveys and seek to explore alternative planning tools and methods that can contribute to ethical, political, and theoretical-methodological advancements by adopting perspectives centered on everyday walking mobility. This approach aims toward a feminist, situated, and transformative urbanism that promotes caring cities committed to sustaining life.
Everyday mobility. Walking. Care. Feminism. Intersectionality.
Copyright (c) 2025 Clarisse Cunha Linke https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Fitotectura para la caminabilidad en zonas comerciales de Manizales, Colombia
Currently, cities are prioritizing walkability in urban planning and design, considering the pedestrian as the central axis. A key factor in this process is phytotecture, a discipline that integrates vegetation into urban spaces to enhance the pedestrian experience. Its proper implementation allows the creation of accessible, safe and pleasant environments, promoting sustainability and a healthier lifestyle. However, despite its benefits, many cities still face challenges in taking full advantage of phytotecture, as it is often used only as an ornamental element. As a case study, the city of Manizales (Colombia) was analyzed, which presents a complex urban environment, where relief, climate and infrastructure pose significant challenges. Using a mixed methodology with 150 pedestrians, observed in 100-meter walks in three recognized commercial areas, factors such as accessibility, shade, thermal comfort and presence of vegetation were evaluated. The results obtained reveal a deficient implementation of phytotecture due to the lack of planning strategies. It is proposed to integrate its principles and forestry criteria in urban design to make Manizales a healthier, sustainable and walkable city, contributing to the wellbeing of the population.
Caminabilidad. fitotectura. diseño urbano. movilidad sostenible. espacio urbano.
Copyright (c) 2025 Leidy Gabriela Mipaz Ramirez, Mabel Manuela Beltrán Barajas, Tania Giraldo Ospina https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
El proyecto sensible de caminar cotidiano
This article explores the sensory experiences underlying the everyday practice of walking in order to delve into the relationship between the body and the inhabited city. With an ethnographic approach and from the perspective of urban aesthetics, it introduces the notion of the sensible project of everyday walking as a repertoire and combination of experiential elements, tactics, and spatial configurations that appeal to feeling, and which frequent walkers seek to experience as they compose their daily routes through the city of Santiago, Chile. Considering the role or walking in the daily routines of people, the spatial conditions of the built environment, and social dynamics of the street, the article examines how walkers weave together spaces and atmospheres through their movement. These are characterized by the presence of vegetation, sociality, or heritage elements that resonate with their life histories and memories. They are soothing experiences for the body, often found on inner streets that offer alternatives to the city’s main traffic arteries. Over time, these bodily and aesthetic experiences of the city in motion reveal shared configurations of the urban landscape as experienced on foot, along with a distinct form of contemplation marked by a diachronic quality. These experiential elements constitute specific forms of knowledge born from the body and perception, reflecting a way of practicing a particular sensitivity inherent to walking.
Walking. Body and the city. Urban aesthetics. Everyday life. Ambiances.
Copyright (c) 2025 Francisca Avilés Arias https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Care Routes as Territories of Resistance, Connection and Urban Resilience – Caring Walks: The Child-Caregiver Binomial
Everyday walks in Latin American cities are shaped by structural inequalities that differently affect the child–caregiver binomial, especially in peripheral urban contexts. This article proposes a situated exploration of the so-called care routes: paths that link spaces of life, affection, attention, and development, supported by fragile urban infrastructure and a strong social network. From an intersectional perspective, it analyzes the experiences of this binomial in their daily displacements, shaped by physical, emotional, and symbolic conditions that define their rhythms, strategies, and meanings. It argues that care routes are not merely functional journeys but territories where bonds, identities, and subjectivities are built at a crucial stage of child development. Walking emerges as both a daily and political practice, capable of transforming the relationship with the city from its margins. The work draws on participatory methodologies, accompanied walks, and field observations carried out in popular neighborhoods of Lima, Peru. The article calls for the recognition of these routes as vital infrastructure for early childhood and invites us to reimagine urban space from an ethic of care that centers life, connection, and community resilience.
Copyright (c) 2025 Andrea Natali Loyola Ramirez, Patricia Quevedo Castañeda https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Aceras inclusivas, orden híbrido y gobernanza urbana: repensando los espacios peatonales del Sur global
Sidewalks are fundamental components of pedestrian infrastructure in cities. However, they constitute an ambiguous segment of this infrastructure, planned for mobility but occupied and appropriated by multiple uses and users who coexist, sometimes in conflict, with pedestrians. Public authorities rarely consider this heterogeneity of uses and actors, and legal texts are often limited to regulating pedestrian flow and the implementation of street furniture. The objective of this article is to analyze to what extent the sidewalk is a product and producer of a hybrid order and how this idea should be integrated into urban planning processes, not only in countries of the Global South, but also in those of the Global North, whose experiences could be shared and mutually enriching. Our initial case for this study is Mexico City and its metropolitan area, but we extend our scrutiny to other cities around the world through a literature review.
Caminabilidad. infraestructura peatonal. aceras. orden urbano. gobernanza urbana.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ruth Pérez López, Guénola Capron, Jérôme Monnet https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Índice de caminabilidad para Bogotá: variables urbanas para hacer los espacios sostenibles y amigables para el peatón
This article analyzes walkability in BogotáD.C., Colombia, considering it a key element of 21st century urbanism that improves the quality of life and humanizes the city. It highlights that walkability is essential for the sustainable development of a city, providing benefits in public health, social welfare and local economy. The study also explores the connection between walkability and new planning strategies such as the 15-minute city. To determine the Walkability Index (WGI), a methodology based on Geographic Information Systems and official data was used. The ICAM considers seven dimensions: pedestrian infrastructure, pedestrian mobility, public safety, road safety, attractiveness, environment and urban morphology, with 18 variables selected by literature review and data availability. The results reveal that, of the 164,890 stretches of sidewalk evaluated, only 10% are optimal for walking. Fifty point six percent are considered good, 33.7% acceptable and 5.4% insufficient. It is concluded that, although the study offers an objective evaluation for public policy decision-making, it is essential to complement it with perception analyses and to address limitations such as improper occupation of public space. These analyses are crucial for urban planners to make data-driven decisions.
Copyright (c) 2025 Lina Fernanda Quenguan López, Jack Hussein Yurgaky López https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
“Callejera… ¿a dónde irás a parar?”. Mujeres que caminan la ciudad
The purpose of this text is to contribute to the reflection on urban walking in Latin American cities, based on the extensive ethnographic fieldwork I conducted for my doctoral thesis on public space in Buenos Aires and other experiences. The aim of this text is to contrast empirical evidence with academic work from urban studies that has reflected on the diverse ways in which women appropriate the streets we walk daily in our everyday lives. This text reviews the concepts of Spatial Justice, Public Space, and the notions of Flaneur, Flanereuse, and Callejera.
espacio público. caminata. flâneur. flâneuse.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jimena Ramirez Casas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The construction of road tunnels is one of the most adequate solutions when road sections are steep and brings multiple environmental and economic benefits. The topic of road tunnel safety and incident analysis is still under development in the field of traffic engineering. The main goal of this paper is to present the results of statistical analyses conducted over Brazilian road traffic accidents data in tunnel sections, comparing them with the results obtained for open sections at the same roadway, more specifically in BR-101 in Santa Catarina. It is intended that the information can provide a solid basis to foster and justify traffic solutions which may bring greater safety to the users, keeping in mind also the comparison with international results.
Copyright (c) 2023 Victor Delegrego, Daniel Vieira Machado, Vera do Carmo Compasi Vargas , Andréa Cristina Konrath, Luiz Ricardo Nakamura
Opiniones de personas de población general sobre medidas para mejorar la seguridad vial en Argentina
The second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 includes among its fundamental recommendations the sanction, adaptation and monitoring of laws that regulate road behavior and the design and construction of infrastructure under a Safe System model. This paper analyzes the opinions of people from the general population of Argentina towards a set of actions aimed at increasing surveillance of the main road risk behaviors identified by the WHO (exceeding speed, driving under the influence of alcohol, not using helmet, seat belt or CRS) and modify the infrastructure to make it safer for vulnerable users. A stratified sample design was used, 2,072 people participated (55.3% women; 44.7% men). The most accepted measures were the need to wear a motorcycle helmet, increase efficiency when judging road violations and increase controls. Those that received less approval were increasing the spaces free of cars and motorcycles, reducing speed limits in residential areas, expanding cycle paths and bike lanes. Significant differences were observed by age, sex, type of city, mode of transport, and perceived probability of suffering a road accident.
Seguridad Vial. Decenio de acción. Sistema Seguro. Comportamientos Viales. Infraestructura.
Copyright (c) 2023 Fernando Martín Poó, María Eugenia Keller, Rubén Daniel Ledesma
Práticas e percepções de ciclistas durante a pandemia de covid-19. Resultados de uma pesquisa com ciclistas na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil
ABSTRACT This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study that interviewed 340 cyclists in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, using a google form questionnaire. This research was carried out between February and March 2021 and investigates how the pandemic changed the habits of those who use bicycles, and how these practices were changed. Cyclists were initially recruited from the ‘Pedal Project’ and then through snowball methodology. The authors conclude that the bicycle was used tactically, both to avoid crowds and maintain social isolation and to practice physical exercise when other places for sports activities were prohibited. The circulation occurred mostly in the central region of the city, inhabited by the middle and upper class and with better cycling infrastructure. The proportion of those who increased or maintained the use of bicycles is similar to that which decreased, changing the motivations for commuting. Keywords: Cycling; Mobility; Transport; Covid-19; Brazil.
Cycling; Mobility; Transport; Covid-19; Brazil.
Copyright (c) 2023 Maria Antonietta Mascolli
A The Motorcycle in the Life of the Families of Rural Producers in Minas Gerais
The “routine displacement” between the city (street) and the countryside (countryside) and not just from the countryside to the street has intensified the use of motorcycles by families of rural producers, which has become increasingly present in the landscape of small municipalities with an agricultural economy. The objective of this study was to understand the use of motorcycles by families of rural producers in the Minas Gerais, the second state with the highest number of motorcycles in Brazil. The data used were from the primary data, obtained through the application of 605 questionnaires, in 11 of the 12 mesoregions of Minas General. The results revealed that the motorcycle was characterized as enabling the maintenance of life in the "country". The use of motorcycles was perceived by rural producers as favoring the management of rural property and the development of productive activities on the property. Even through housing on the “street”, the rural property continued to show itself as an integral part of family life, especially for low-tech producers, with low agricultural income, who sought in the “street” the possibility of combining agricultural and cultural activities non-agricultural resources for their social reproduction
Copyright (c) 2023 Ana Louise De carvalho Fiúza, Angelita Alves de Carvalho, Neide Maria de Almeida Pinto, Natália Barbosa Rodrigues
Urban development and transportation have had parallel evolutions; however transportation and urban mobility have been interpreted as sectorial issues. The construction of infrastructures has directed dispersed urban growth and movement reflects functional relations. In the last decades, planning has been assumed after the transformations added to the deficiencies of an urban-territorial planning framework. This context motivates to question the urban organizational-functioning model being objective: "to generate methodological contributions of planning considering the theory of complexity with application to the District of Moreno understanding mobility and public transport in relation to the urban phenomenon". It is intended to offer a proposal that facilitates decisions of local administrations of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires. The relational methodology guides the conceptual linkage that gathers arguments from Rolando García's theory on Complex Global Systems for the generation of a theoretical-methodological construction of planning. Its application is carried out by means of geospatial analysis with Geographic Information Systems supported by external sources and official organisms. As a result, priority areas of intervention are defined to streamline and guide public policies and territorial management, taking into account the multiplicity of territorial scales.
Avaliação do sistema de pedágio sem barreiras por quilômetro percorrido free-flow
The toll payment system, tariff collected for highway traffic, is a way of maintaining and expanding highways, leaving them in good trafficability and safety conditions. In search of a fairer form of payment, the electronic toll collection can be used to increase the number of payers based on the distance traveled. So, this work addresses toll collection per kilometer, using the free-flow system, where the user pays for the actual traveled distance controlled by an automatic system, with the installation of electronic gateways at the entrances and the exits of the road. The selected highway was the BR 116 – Rio de Janeiro – São Paulo, known as highway Presidente Dutra, that it interconnects the states, with a total dimension of 402 miles. The results of the present work showed that the current toll price at the plaza corresponds to $ 15.20 Brazilian Reais, which would suffer a decrease of, approximately, 37%, changing to $ 9.49 Brazilian Reais. Additionally, the implementation of a free-flow system for a segment of 10 miles on the same highway, would result in a saving of $ 5.71 Brazilian Reais for the long distance users, or up to 4.15% of the minimum wage.
Copyright (c) 2023 Talita Evelyn, Augusto Cesar de Mendonca Brasil, Cintia Adriana Azevedo de Liz Anhaia, Francielly Cristina Sousa Cunha, Jony Marcos do Valle Lopes
Vías hacia los muelles. Vestigios materiales de viejas redes ferroviarias del Pays Bigouden (Francia) y de Coronel Rosales (Argentina)
El artículo es el esbozo preliminar de un estudio a mediano plazo que dará cuenta de la construcción, desarrollo y posterior ocaso de sendas líneas ferroviarias que conectaban con puertos en Francia y la Argentina a principios del siglo XX y el rico patrimonio a ellas vinculado. Las trazas se reconvirtieron con otras funciones pero aún hoy son reconocibles y perduran en el paisaje después de años de que estos ramales dejaron de funcionar Se han elegido para este estudio dos zonas por ser los terroirs de los investigadores: en Francia, el denominado Pays Bigouden, ubicado en el sudoeste de Bretaña; en la Argentina, el partido de Coronel Rosales, situado en el sudoeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Ambas regiones, de similar extensión y población, comparten además el hecho de que sus ferrocarriles y sus puertos están ubicados lejos de los centros neurálgicos de poder de cada país, París y Buenos Aires respectivamente y son relativamente marginales y pequeños respecto a las redes ferroviarias de ambos países.
Railway networks in France and Argentina
Copyright (c) 2023 Gustavo Chalier, Bruno Rohou
Puesta en valor del patrimonio portuario para una mejora del paisaje: el cine en la Bahía de Pasaia.
Our proposal is to analyse the historical evolution of the landscape through film and to study the heritage or cultural landscape of the bay as a resource. It also aims to detect which characteristics of the territory arouse cinematographic interest. To do so, we have used a methodology that looks for geographical characteristics in the films, the product of the selection of exteriors and a testimony of human activity; elements that integrate the visual image of the city and make the urban space legible. The intention is to approach mental representations as a different way of analysing space. In contrast to quantitative approaches, which reduce space to a network of arcs and nodes, or to simple geometry, the geography of mental representations considers the territory as a space that is lived, felt, valued and perceived differently by people through mental images and individual and collective impressions. The conclusions of this study show that cinema can contribute to these objectives by means of a cultural itinerary that provides answers to these three needs and allows us to discover the meaning that people give to the scenery that surrounds them.
Cinema, Landscape, Port, Territorial planning, Cultural heritage.
Copyright (c) 2023 Enrique Rafael De Rosa Giolito
Ports of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: parallels and differences
Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires are cities founded as ports for shipping production from the Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas. Both cities, at a given moment, and largely due to the importance of a port city in the face of the mechanism of colonialism, became capitals. Furthermore, both cities experienced the implantation of the capitalist industrial port at the turn of the 20th century, as well as experienced its decline in the mid-1960s with the modernization of technology and the consequent obsolescence of facilities built decades earlier – a process shared with several ports around the world. Both in Buenos Aires and in Rio de Janeiro, policies to revitalize the old port areas were debated in the midst of the redemocratization process with the end of the Latin American dictatorships. However, it is at this moment that the paths, which were largely parallel, differ. Puerto Madero became an important reference for revitalization in the 1990s, despite its successes and failures. Rio de Janeiro, on the other hand, would take another two decades to start a still incipient process of revitalizing its old port area. It is these parallels and differences that this article explores.
Rio de Janeiro, ports, Buenos Aires, urban plans
Copyright (c) 2023 Juliana Oakim, Cezar Honorato
Regiones portuarias y cadenas globales de valor. Una mirada crítica al potencial del Gran Rosario
Globalization stimulates financial flows and international trade as the full expression of changes in the production and distribution of goods and services. The production model that a country develops allows it to be integrated into "global value chains" as a way of organizing production and exchange on world markets. Maritime and river transport plays a leading role, moving through ports, demanding facilities and new areas with the capacity to integrate transformation activities and services to foreign trade. Rosario was one of the first and most important ports to grow with the city, becoming a benchmark for grain exports during the national agro-export phase. Today, it is the nucleus of a port region structured around the agro-industrial chain (with a focus on soybeans) with more than 30 shipping terminals and large processing and storage facilities. Despite of development achieved, potential growth is conditioned in its trajectory; several components need to be reviewed and acted to establish strategies and policy guidelines for the sector.
Región. Complejo portuario. Agroexportación. Caena global de valor. Política pública.
Copyright (c) 2023 Isabel Raposo, Augusto Caviglia
Despite being founded in 1828, Bahía Blanca grew economically and demographically at the end of the 19th century with the decision to extend the railway and develop ports in the area of ​​the homonymous estuary. From the local State and the maritime complex of the same name, different projections were made about both places, sometimes compatible and sometimes not. The objective of this paper is to analyze how these two spaces have been conceived in municipal and port planning, from a historical perspective. We believe that a study of this type will make it possible to identify the long-term criteria with which they were thought, in a particular and interrelational way, later materialized in urban policies, regulations, government actions and port authorities. To reach the proposed end, we use qualitative methodology. In the first section, we address the initial conceptualizations of Bahía Blanca in the projects from the 1910s to the 1990s that were developed, as a city that sought to consolidate itself as a regional head, together with a port that planned to grow and diversify. In the second, in a different world context, the visions of a metropolis that wanted to insert itself globally and an autonomous maritime complex that yearned for efficiency.
Bahía Blanca. Port of Bahia Blanca. Projections. Planning. Interaction.
Copyright (c) 2023 María Jimena Irisarri, Daniel Carbone
Passengers and goods. Debates and projects around the opening to the river and the development of the river station on the central coast of Rosario (1930-1960).
This paper focuses on the study of the visual and textual representations, as well as on the material interventions, which gradually modified the image of the central coastline occupied by the railway-port facilities in the period 1930-1960. In this sense, we analyse the discourses of the Rosario newspaper as an active agent in the construction of these imaginary meanings, both in its argumentative strategies and in the use of visual resources in relation to representations from other fields such as urban planning, the cartographies of the competent bodies in the sector, photographs and postcards, among others. In particular, the construction of a passenger river station is studied, for which various projects were presented in the 1930s. However, it was not until the beginning of the 1950s that it materialised, articulated with other interventions that enabled new discursive constructions that were aimed at reactivating port activities in decline, while at the same time considerations began to appear for the development of tourism by passenger boats, renewing old discussions that confronted the strictly productive conception of the Paraná with the sensitive view of the landscape of the river and the islands.
Copyright (c) 2023 Bibiana Ponzini, Cecilia Galimberti, Andrea Basso, Jorge Español, Jimena Cutruneo
Presentación al dossier “Patrimonio portuario y procesos de globalización: distintas perspectivas de abordaje en tiempos, espacios y escalas variables”
“Ciertamente, la ciudad portuaria es uno de los elementos esenciales del moderno espacio económico mundial. Simboliza la interdependencia del medio ambiente y la sociedad, y envuelve la fusión de la diversidad cultural y la experiencia histórica” (Suárez Bosa, 2022), resume Miguel Suárez Bosa, de la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canarias, referente insoslayable entre los historiadores contemporáneos dedicados a la temática, y a quién tributamos el presente dossier en su memoria, a causa de su reciente deceso. Analizar la interacción de los puertos con las ciudades y regiones a lo largo de la historia, y la incidencia de esa dinámica en la cultura, las prácticas de gobernanza y el desarrollo de las respectivas sociedades, han sido parte de los objetivos que impulsaron los coloquios, jornadas, seminarios y publicaciones organizados por el Núcleo de Ciudades Portuarias Regionales (N-CPR) desde el año 2015 y en adelante. A través de este tipo de reuniones, El N-CPR pretende contribuir al fortalecimiento de un campo con el que coopera a través de redes, programas y proyectos internacionales en la temática. La participación de investigadores provenientes de distintas universidades argentinas y extranjeras, así como los resultados obtenidos en estos encuentros validan la pertinencia de este campo para promover los análisis comparativos, el diálogo interdisciplinar e interinstitucional, en un ámbito propicio para reflexionar sobre estrategias y estructuras comunes, “desarrollar objetivos dentro de una agenda académica más amplia”, y al mismo tiempo valorar “los atributos esenciales de la originalidad, la calidad, el progreso y las contribuciones al conocimiento” que el campo en sí representa (Thompson Klein, 2013).
Copyright (c) 2023 Miguel Ángel De Marco, Carolina López
Desafíos para la movilidad sostenible: el desarrollo de políticas en el Área Metropolitana Mendoza (Argentina)
This article deals with mobility planning and intervention initiatives carried out in the last decade in one of the intermediate cities of Argentina: the Mendoza Metropolitan Area. These initiatives are framed in the principles of sustainable mobility and try to solve the problems posed by intensive automobile mobility and the growth in extension of cities. Here we focus on the dissemination of models for the implementation of these initiatives, on the circulation of these models between different cities and on the actors involved. We dwell on the implementation of the so-called mass public transport systems, particularly on the Metrotranvia for the Mendoza Metropolitan Area. In general, we observe that the application of these models does not guarantee the achievement of the objectives of sustainable mobility, for which we consider the active role of those who promote it to be essential for its application in various cities.
Copyright (c) 2024 María José Navarrete, Rodrigo Martín Magallanes, Julieta Dalla Torre
Qualidade do serviço e satisfação dos usuários: estudo do sistema de transporte por ônibus em Porto Alegre
The quality of public transport services not only affects users' satisfaction with the system, but can also affect their quality of life. Therefore, this study seeks to identify and establish priority quality characteristics of public transport by urban buses that influence user satisfaction in Porto Alegre. So, ordered logit models were estimated to assess user satisfaction in relation to the system’s quality characteristics. The results show that accessibility to transport, service expenses and customer service are the characteristics that most influence users’ satisfaction.
Qualidade. Transporte público. Satisfação. Modelos logit ordenados.
Quality. Public transportation. Satisfaction. Ordered logit models.
Copyright (c) 2024 Evaristo Carvalho Neto, Ana Margarita Larranaga, Shanna Trichês Lucchesi, Maria Cristina Molina Ladeira
Estimativa da densidade de veículos em pelotões em rodovias de pista simples com faixas adicionais
The analyses of the level of service and the capacity provide subsidies to determine the supply of highways. The Highway Capacity Manual, which is in the 7th version (HCM-7), is the main document for analyzing capacity and level of service worldwide. Therefore, adaptations must be made at the place of application, due to traffic peculiarities that vary with the location, affecting behavioral and vehicular parameters. Thus, the present work had, as its main objective, to propose a method to estimate the follower density, a service measure used to analyze two-lane highways. The proposed method was obtained based on traffic data produced with a simulator, the Aimsun Next, that was calibrated to the local conditions. For this, field data were collected on three two-lane highway segments with passing lanes, located on BR-040 road. The results showed that the developed method in this paper produced FD values closer to those found in the field when compared to the values obtained with the HCM-7.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ana Carolina Felício Bicalho, Thais Berger Barbosa da Silva, Juliângelo Kayo Sangi de Oliveira, Jose Elievam Bessa Junior
Estudio de los infractores de tránsito en cruces semaforizados en la ciudad de Loja (Ecuador) y su relación con los siniestros viales
Traffic violations are a recurring problem worldwide, especially at traffic light crossings, because they are infrastructures that manage large vehicular flows, favoring the possibility of road accidents. Due to this importance, this study aims to determine the frequency and the reasons why drivers cross the traffic light in red and yellow (traffic violations) and the relationship with the generation of road accidents through the "Probit" model. , for this, 623 surveys were collected in a city south of Ecuador. As a result, the marginal effects of the probit regression were defined when committing an infraction when the traffic light is red and yellow vs. the probability of suffering a road accident. In addition, it was determined that the causes with the highest risk of accidents are: being in a hurry and traffic congestion.
Traffic Violations; Signalized Crossings; Traffic Accidents, Probit Models.
Copyright (c) 2024 Emily Priscila Durán Aguilar, Juan Diego Febres, Yasmany García Ramírez, Santiago Ochoa Moreno
Technical Efficiency in the Passengers Public Transportation
An inadequate management of public passenger transport affects less road capacity, and becoming a challenge for the political decision-maker due to the social impact that the service entails; In this sense, the present investigation has estimated the technical efficiency frontier of the public passenger transport service through the DEA Data Envelopment Analysis methodology for the city of Cuenca. Two models were used, demand and supply; as DMU, ​​the 37 bus service routes were taken; as variables, for the input the Km Traveled, the Total Fleet, and Frequencies, and for the output, the Number of Passengers and the Operating Costs; the data was obtained from the Revision Report of the Collective Urban Public Transport Tariff of the Cuenca Canton for the year 2021. The results indicated an average efficiency, in the transport service, of 68% for the demand model and 90% in the supply model; they also show technical inefficiency due to the scale in which the different routes operate; finally concluding a necessary increase, mainly, the Km in the travel routes and the service frequencies.
Technical Efficiency, Data Envelopment Analysis, Passenger Transportation, Ecuador, Public Transportation.
Copyright (c) 2024 Luis Suin-Guaraca, Edwin Feijoo Criollo
Development of the pilot plan for a ridesharing system for a university campus in Cuenca, Ecuador
The article analyzes the applied research project “!Yo te llevo!” designed and implemented at the pre operation stage, at the University of Cuenca (UCuenca), between September 2019 and February 2020. ¡Yo te llevo! is a ridesharing system, part of a sustainable mobility initiative for the university community. The system seeks to increase passenger occupancy in private vehicles on trips to and from the UCuenca university. The pre operation process showed that socialization and information dissemination among the university community (of the existence of a ridesharing system in the institution, as well as the details of its operation) are essential to generate interest and attract users to the system. The application of a structured survey to the users in the pre operation stage revealed that the system was more attractive among employees with similar working conditions, such as their role in the institution, and their entry and exit times. The survey also highlighted the importance that the expectation of a social benefit has for users. Meeting their travel companions and being able to talk with other people are highly important motivations among users, as it is the possibility of collaborating with their colleagues, in the case of users who fulfilled the role of drivers.