Abstract
This paper reveals the travel characteristics; direct and indirect costs and travel times; users’ perceptions with respect to reliability, comfort and safety; and impact on the quality of academic performance for students in the Centro Acadêmico do Agreste of UFPE, located in Caruaru, Brazil, which has 3,000 students from 70 cities. Almost 50% of these students live in cities located within 100 km of Caruaru and commute for three hours on average (round-trip). These trips are mostly performed on non-regular intercity transport, chartered by users or municipalities. This kind of transport, apparently inadequate in operational terms, makes access to higher education possible for a significant proportion of students, keeping them residents of their hometowns.
Highlights
This paper reveals the travel characteristics; direct and indirect costs and travel times; users’ perceptions with respect to reliability, comfort and safety; and impact on the quality of academic performance for students of UFPE (Centro Acadêmico do Agreste), located in Caruaru, Brazil, which has 3,000 students from 70 cities
This paper aims to outline public transport policies to support the internalization of higher education in Brazil – such as, for example, the provision of subsidies for transport and the implementation of appropriate regulation of this means of transport
The sample size of this qualitative study was based on quantitative research into the accessibility of the Centro Acadêmico do Agreste (CAA) campus conducted by Andrade et al (2011)
Summary
This paper reveals the travel characteristics; direct and indirect costs and travel times; users’ perceptions with respect to reliability, comfort and safety; and impact on the quality of academic performance for students of UFPE (Centro Acadêmico do Agreste), located in Caruaru, Brazil, which has 3,000 students from 70 cities. This new reality, is still poorly studied in the literature on transport accessibility to rural campuses This decentralization of public higher education, made it possible for the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, which until had only one campus, in the State capital, Recife, to expand its operations to the hinterland. It were opened two new campuses: the Centro Acadêmico do Agreste (CAA) in Caruaru, 140 km from Recife, and the Centro Acadêmico de Vitória (CAV) in Vitoria de Santo Antão, 60 km from Recife. The regional character of these new campuses reveals, as a key issue, the importance of studying the accessibility conditions of students, understanding their needs and perspectives, their socioeconomic background and the spatial distribution of their origins
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