Brazil (country focus)Current status & future trends of urban transport in cities "

Transforming Transportation 2014"

!   Presented at Transforming Transportation 2014!

!   Toni Lindau!!   Director, EMBARQ Brazil!

Country focus:Brazil Toni Lindau (moderator) Panelists:

Ciro Biderman Clarisse Linke André Dantas Shomik Mehndiratta Márcio Nigro

Objective: explore current status and future trends of urban transport in Brazilian cities through efforts of the public and private sector

Brazil: background

Many challenges: address social issues, fix existing cities, …

of total pop. already in cities

84%

World´s 6th

economy

Car ownership in large Brazilian cities reaching the 1980’s European average

cars / 1,000 inhab.

350

Deaths/100k pop

22.5 Brazil among the top countries in road traffic deaths

of infrastructure abandonment

30 yrs

Three decades of little investment in urban infrastructure (1983-2013)

people on the streets June 2013

1M+

Demanding higher quality urban transportation

US$32+25 = $57 B

for investments in urban public transport

The era for sustainable transport in Brazilian cities may be starting…"

100 cities 1,500+ km 8M+ pass/day

Opportunity: Promote Transit-Oriented-Development by influencing multi-billion multi-year investments

Investments in housing and transportation will shape Brazilian cities for decades to come

Great challenges for the public and private sectors!