WORKSHOP
Governança Metropolitana e Mobilidade:
Análise comparativa Curitiba e Montreal
Dias 28 e 29 de junho de 2012
making public transport and housing match:
accomplishments and failures of
CuritIba’s BRT
fábio duarte
graduate program in urban management
www.pucpr.br/ppgtu
curitiba
figures and planning
1.8 million inhabitants
430 km2
GDP per capita U$23 bi
GDP Montreal U$ 148 bi
numbeo quality of life
Curitiba 96
Rio de Janeiro -14
Montreal 164
population x 1,000
2000
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
1980
2000
2010
Metro
1960
Serete
1940
Agache
1920
a growing city

year
population
1955
360.000
1965
550.000
1975
1.140.000
1985
1.700.000
2000
2.700.000
2010
3.000.000
2020
3.600.000
a growing city
metropolitan region of curitiba
planning a growing city
1943 . plano agache
planning a growing city
1965 . plano serete
public transport
guiding urban development
technological choice
1952 the last tram
1969 transportation alternatives
1972 transportation and road system
dedicated lanes
communication . a new away of moving in town since 1972
tubes special stops for special vehicles
express lines longer buses stopping only at the terminals
elements of a full brt
dedicated lanes
specific terminals and stops
special vehicles
operation and service plan
fare collection
information technology systems
marketing
the success of brt results from a permanent struggle to fulfil all
demands that should be provided by rail
brt in curitiba
curitiba’s public transport is based on 4 elements
. a complex network of feeder lines
. link between transport and road system
. link between transport and land use
. BRT corridors keep the city at a human scale
operation
lines, purpose and vehicles: dealing with complexity
RIT brt as a transportation network
RIT brt as a transportation network
. fleet
. passengers / day
. lines
. terminals
. tubes
. private operators
1,915 buses
2.3 million (only 1.2 million pay)
355
33
351
28
Curitiba
Integrated Demands
92%
Costs and Revenue participation
75%
Metropolitan Area
73%
25%
transport and zoning
system
. transportation and zoning
. transportation and road system
. transportation hierarchical network
fast traffic lane
fast traffic lane
structural axis
central lane: exclusive for brt
lateral lanes: slow traffic
structural axes transportation and land use
1972
PLANO DIRETOR DE 2004
zoning
high density
dedicated bus lane
+ slow traffic
brt terminal
fast traffic
structural axes transportation and land use
2010
PLANO DIRETOR DE 2004
2010 high density along the transportation corridor
metropolitan scale
buses: metropolitan integration
terminals
passengers from integrated lines
(N-S axis)
Santa Cândida
80%
Boa Vista
76%
Cabral
88%
Portão
75%
Capão Raso
88%
Pinheirinho
84%
people should not be living
along the corridors?
verticalization
juvevê . cabral
centre
água verde
verticalization x boarding passengers
boarding passengers
skyline
private market
housing projects
Super economic
Economic
Standard
public housing projects
Medium
High
Luxury
public housing projects
transport and housing
the success of curitiba’s BRT has never been a
matter of buses, but of planning urban
development and transportation together.
Thank you // Merci