Sprawling and Urban transportation system: Impacts in the city of Londrina, Parana, Brazil

After nearly 80 years since the construction of its core, represented today by the city's central area, Londrina, located in the state of Parana, has the appearance of a new city but its features and trends of planning policies depict the bad examples of Brazilian cities. With a booming urban growth, from north to south of the county, the urban interstices represented by big voids in the middle of the city created speculation and the concept of an ideal city slowly disappeared. With a metropolitan appearance and, at the same time, with small town aspects, Londrina stands out as an automobile-oriented city, a fact that has impacted the livelihood of the population, generating environmental impacts for all social classes. This paper discusses how the form of occupation in Londrina, characterized by the sprawl phenomenon and its relation to car preference as a mode of transportation has generated urban environmental impacts. It was concluded that the choice of using cars in Londrina, as well in other medium-sized Brazilian cities studied by the comparative method, has increased and has generated bottlenecks in traffic. As a consequence, there is a constant expropriation of properties for widening roads and at the same time, the presence of various densities and urban voids that form an uneven urban space and an obstacle to efficient urban planning. © 2012 WIT Press.

Background and mandate of Ad Hoc Working Group for Transportation Planning

Contiene los antecedentes del Grupo Especial de Trabajo sobre Planificacion del Transporte y el mandato, acordado por los Ministros en la Quinta Sesion del CDCC, sobre el desarrollo de un programa en el sector transporte, en especial transporte maritimo, en base a recomendaciones hechas en estudios anteriores.

Draft future work programme for Ad Hoc Working Group for Transportation Planners

Extrae del informe de consultor "An agenda for transport planning in the Caribbean" las sugerencias para el futuro programa de trabajo en relacion a las areas de actividad, modalidades para la implementacion del programa, aspectos financieros, y creacion de una Unidad de Investigacion de Transporte Multimodal.

Report of the First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group in Transportation Planning

Informe de la reunion del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Planificacion del Transporte cuyo debate se centro en las prioridades para el futuro programa de trabajo del Grupo. Incluye lista de participantes y de documentos.

El transporte en el Istmo Centroamericano = Transportation in Central America

Incluye Bibliografía

Informe sobre un temario para la planificación del transporte en el Caribe = Report on an agenda for transportation planning in the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

La industria de transporte regular internacional y la competitividad del comercio exterior de los países de América Latina y el Caribe = The international common-carrier transportation industry and the competitiveness of the foreign trade of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

La industria de transporte regular internacional y la competitividad del comercio exterior de los países de América Latina y el Caribe = The international common-carrier transportation industry and the competitiveness of the foreign trade of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía

A ferrovia e o automóvel: ícones da modernidade na cidade de Bauru (1917-1939)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Transportation in the 21st century: a vision for integration

The Third Western Hemisphere Transportation Ministerial meeting was held in New Orleans, Lousiana, United States, from 14 to 16 December 1998, under the theme Transportation in the 21st Century: A Vision for Integration. The meeting was attended by Ministers and heads of delegations from 33 countries of the Americas, representatives of various international organizations and business sector of the Continent. The current issue of the Bulletin provides the complete text of the Ministerial Declaration. For additional information, contact José María Rubiato: e-mail jrubiato@eclac.cl