The scientific research context of urban transports for Bus Rapid Transit systems applications

Alvaro Luiz Neuenfeldt Júnior,Sabine Ritter De Paris,Julio Cezar Mairesse Siluk

doi:10.1590/2238-1031.jtl.v10n4a3

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Across history, transportation of people and cargo has been highly relevant for economic and social development, directly reflecting the evolution of how society is organized, culminating in the current forms of urban demographic organizations. Therefore, studies regarding urban mobility optimization are nowadays very relevant to scientific community. Hence, the main objective of this study is to identify the scientific context of urban public transport management for applications focused on Bus Rapid Transit systems (from 2009 to 2014), allowing visualization of possible opportunities to increase the level and number of contributions to these systems, through the development of a bibliometric analysis. It was possible to conclude that six articles are directly linked with this research field, establishing the theoretical framework to conduct further studies.

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IntroductionTransportation of people and cargo has been highly relevant for economic and social development, directly reflecting the evolution of how society is organized, culminating in the current forms of urban demographic organizations (Duarte et al 2012, Vasconcellos 2012)
Across history, transportation of people and cargo has been highly relevant for economic and social development, directly reflecting the evolution of how society is organized, culminating in the current forms of urban demographic organizations (Duarte et al 2012, Vasconcellos 2012).among the various ways that people move from one place to another, two different groups can be highlighted
The main objective of this study is to identify the scientific context of urban public transport management for applications focused on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems, allowing visualization of possible opportunities to increase the level and number of contributions to these systems

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Transportation of people and cargo has been highly relevant for economic and social development, directly reflecting the evolution of how society is organized, culminating in the current forms of urban demographic organizations (Duarte et al 2012, Vasconcellos 2012). Among the various ways that people move from one place to another, two different groups can be highlighted. The second group, defined as private, is characterized by displacements that involve cars, motorcycles, bicycles, or even locomotion on foot, in a way that the main advantage is the versatility of transportation at any time for all required places. Uncontrolled urban growth might generate conflicts among the different transportation models, in a manner that in some countries (e.g., Brazil), the use of private transport transportation might be emphasized over public transportation, which generates expensive costs in improvement and maintenance of road structures instead of the basic premises of urban mobility that accentuate social inclusion through the viable access of existing public spaces in a local community (Kittelson & Associates et al 2007, Wright and Hook 2007, Neuenfeldt Júnior et al 2015)

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