Abstract
Goal: This study analyzes the impacts of the transportation sector on air pollution within the scope of one major Brazilian metropolitan region.
 Design/Methodology/Approach: A literature review was conducted on the subject's constructs, with subsequent reasoning grounded on the fleet's characteristics and data obtained from in-depth interviews from a government transportation agency.
 Results: The results show Brazil's contextual evidence that risk management for the haulage sector should consider air pollution's negative impacts. With air quality standards as an essential reference, it is possible to observe that the city of Uberlândia does not effectively manage air quality.
 Limitations of investigation: One limitation of this research is related to the representativeness of the sample. The research also recommends future studies to use government policies for the improvement of the framework.
 Practical implications: The local and contextual addressing of air pollution and transport correlation in one focal point for cargo transportation at a national level pontentially contributes to environmental public policies.
 Originality/value: Originality value resides in considering emissions from cargo vehicles as a significant factor in this process of air pollution in a specific context of a metropolitan area of an emerging economy that has its transportation modal grounded on trucking freight.
Highlights
The evolution of road transport, starting in the 1950s, occurred at an extremely rapid pace in Brazil
The present study aims to contribute to this discussion and analyze air pollution characteristics under the lens of the freight transportation industry in the Brazilian city of Uberlandia, quantifying the primary atmospheric pollutants to advance in this region's emissions studies and public policy implementation
Interviews were conducted in a face-to-face meeting with employees of the SETTRIM; in-depth interviews are used to obtain as much detailed information as possible about a specific topic (Minayo, 1993)
Summary
The evolution of road transport, starting in the 1950s, occurred at an extremely rapid pace in Brazil. In the 1960s, freight movement shift from railroads and cabotage (coastal navigation) to highways. Every freight you make: environmental pollution index for road transportation about 73% of all freight movement in Brazil (Barat, 1978). A modern highway system would be the fastest way to achieve its tremendous national objective of social, economic, and political integration (Amann et al, 2016; Southworth et al, 2011; Galvão, 1996)
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