Author(s)

I.C. Regina & L.F. Luz

Abstract

Quality of life, mainly in big cities, is deeply connected to a rational transportation planning, that must be able to supply the displacements needs, offering the citizens good conditions of circulation. S§o Paulo Metropolitan Area (Brazil), with a population of 16 million people , shows a historical lack of investment in the railway transportation sector, specially for passengers, caused by a policy that privileged the road traffic in detriment of the others. This wrong policy caused an overuse of the urban net, provoking environmental degradation and decrease in quality of life since the citizen's mobility has been reduced. In the year of 1996 the company responsible for the commuter passenger railway transportation in S&o Paulo Metropolitan Area (CIA Paulista de Trens Metropolitans),

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