TY - JOUR
T1 - The transportation systems of Buenos Aires, Chicago and São Paulo
T2 - City centers, infrastructure and policy analysis
AU - Lascano Kezič, Marcelo E.
AU - Durango-Cohen, Pablo L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Juan Pablo Martínez, Rogerio Belda, Ayrton Camargo, Claudio de Senna Federico, Silvio Rosa, Orlando Strambi, Eduardo Vasconcellos for providing their views for this article. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by a Fulbright Scholarship (US Department of State) and by an International Road Federation Scholarship, both awarded to the first author. The authors would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers for providing commentaries that have led to the improvement of the paper. Marcelo Lascano would like to express his gratitude to Northwestern University and to everyone at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the warm welcome and a great 2 year stay.
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - We compare the passenger transportation systems of Buenos Aires, Chicago and São Paulo. The selected cities represent distinctive combinations of land-use, infrastructure, and evolution of transport policy. Analysis is centered on accessibility to downtown areas, where transportation processes converge in an environment where space is scarce. In two of the three cities institutional arrays that legally establish unified decision making have shown little capacity to launch fare or physical coordination between modes. In two of the three cities the concentration of public transportation supply to historical downtowns has not been an attraction factor, and downtown uses have expanded to less accessible areas. Gentrification in Chicago is also another process showing that land use changes are related to many factors, transportation being only one of them, and not always a necessary one. In all three cases the use of railways, as a set of inherited infrastructures, has seen an increase whose magnitude suggests a link to modal reassignment due to increasing congestion. Scarcity of space in old downtown areas is being counteracted through more intense use, or through the expansion of vertical space for transportation operations.
AB - We compare the passenger transportation systems of Buenos Aires, Chicago and São Paulo. The selected cities represent distinctive combinations of land-use, infrastructure, and evolution of transport policy. Analysis is centered on accessibility to downtown areas, where transportation processes converge in an environment where space is scarce. In two of the three cities institutional arrays that legally establish unified decision making have shown little capacity to launch fare or physical coordination between modes. In two of the three cities the concentration of public transportation supply to historical downtowns has not been an attraction factor, and downtown uses have expanded to less accessible areas. Gentrification in Chicago is also another process showing that land use changes are related to many factors, transportation being only one of them, and not always a necessary one. In all three cases the use of railways, as a set of inherited infrastructures, has seen an increase whose magnitude suggests a link to modal reassignment due to increasing congestion. Scarcity of space in old downtown areas is being counteracted through more intense use, or through the expansion of vertical space for transportation operations.
KW - City centers
KW - Comparative study
KW - Great cities
KW - Infrastructure
KW - Land-use
KW - Transport policy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tra.2011.09.007
DO - 10.1016/j.tra.2011.09.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80053584501
SN - 0965-8564
VL - 46
SP - 102
EP - 122
JO - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
JF - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
IS - 1
ER -
