Implicações da alteração da tarifa dos transportes chapa 100 nos agregados familiares - estudo de caso: bairro de Magoanine

Abstract

The problem of adjusting the tariff for semi-selective passenger transport, the so-called “chapas 100” from 4.00mt to the current 7.50.00mt on the 4th of April 2005, involved different interests and sensitivities and was seen as the means that boosted effects in the income of households in the Bairro de Magoanine. It is in this context that this work was carried out with the objective, in a first phase, of descriptively analyzing the factors that directly condition and influence adjustments to the “chapa 100” transport tariff in general, of the processes and mechanisms that determine the adjustment of the “chapa 100” tariff ”, to then analyze the direct and indirect implications that this adjustment has on the expenditure structure of households in the Bairro de Magoanine, and finally, propose alternative solutions for adjusting the “chapa 100” transport tariffs that can help to minimize the effects that the 7.50mt tariff has been imposing on households in the study area. The present work is fundamentally, it consists of a study based on direct observations, of empirical studies of the criteria of adjustment of the transport tariff “chapa 100” in general, of questionnaires to institutions related to the problem of passenger transport, as well as of the collection of information based on surveys of households that are directly involved with the problem of adjusting the transport tariff “chapa 100