São Paulo is the city with more links of public transportation
June 30, 2017 10h00 AM | Last Updated: July 18, 2017 04h06 PM
There are 65,939 links between a Brazilian city and other cities either in Brazil or abroad, through bus, ship, boat, van or any other kind of public transportation. This information comes from the 2016 Road and Waterway Links publication, released today by the IBGE. This survey also shows that São Paulo is the city that provides the biggest number of trips. It is possible to buy tickets for 1,477 different cities from there.
Adding up to 2,855 weekly departures, the two-way journey between the municipalities of Carpina and Paudalho in Pernambuco is that with the highest frequency in Brazil. The trip between Fortaleza and Pelotas is the most expensive in Brazil, costing R$931.26 at least. The cheapest journeys cost R$1.00 between the municipalities of Baião and Mocajuba in Pará, between the cities of Cristiano Castro and Palmeira do Piauí in Piauí and between the municipalities of Espírito Santo and Várzea in Rio Grande do Norte.
Among some curious facts, the longest bus trip is from São Paulo to Lima, Peru. The cheapest value of this fare is R$910.00 and the duration is 6,120 minutes or about a four-day trip.
Considering both road and waterway transportation, the longest trip is by boat from the municipality of Japurá in Amazonas to the capital Manaus. This journey takes 8,640 minutes, which means six days. This fare costs R$230.00 at least.
An unprecedented study in Brazil
Road and Waterway Links presents every pair of cities linked through public transportation services; the weekly frequency of trips by type of vehicle; costs; and travel times, building a national framework of interconnections between municipalities, pointing out the most accessible points in the territory and also the localities less accessed by transportation services.
Never published before, this study aims at understanding the pattern of the interaction between Brazilian cities and the way they connect with each other through links by public passenger transportation. The data were collected in bus and waterway terminals, ticket sale points, bus stops and places of alternative transportation in all the Brazilian municipalities.
"The field work showed us that the limitation to formal companies would not provide a reasonable picture of the links, so carriers that did not inform the CNPJ were also included. This is the first time that a nationwide survey includes road and waterway transportation, formal and informal", states Marcelo Motta, manager of the survey.
Application allows users to combine trips
In addition to the analyses, tables and maps about the study, the survey also provides an application, in which users can make different combinations to answer questions like: From my city I can buy tickets for which other cities? Which is the longest trip I can make from my city? And which is the most expensive? From where to where can I go with R$50.00? An with R$2.00?
The complete survey can be accessed here and the application, here, at the interactive map link.
Text: Mônica Marli
Photos: Marcelo Motta and Marco Antonio Oliveira
