Public Transportation System at the Southern Cone: New projects

• Main Author: Mariana Schweitzer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 2002-07-01
• Series: Estudios Fronterizos
• Subjects: Sistema de transporte; reconfiguración económica, desigualdad territorial
• Online Access: http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/266

<p>In the context of the international restructuration of the economy and the regional integration process, according to the claim of accelerating the trade circulation, there is emerging a kind of transporting subestructure project with different characteristics from other times, which are producing a new territorial configuration.</p><p>The present study has the objective to analyze the evolution of the transportation system in the South Cone and, in the context of the integration process and the economic restructuration, the new demans and which are the transformations of the involved territories since the concretion of this new actions. It is analyzed the regional transportation system related to the territory estructuration in those countries integrating the Mercosur (Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay and Paraguay), as well as in the associated nations (Bolivia and Chile).</p><p>Based on the relief and diagnosis of the situation, and considering those new projects, we make a reflection about the tendency to reconcentrate the subestructure and the inversions, with the following territorial inequality that gets deeper and reproduces the territorial fragmentation in regions that receive the new projects obeying to external goals without considering the global impact in the territories’ group.</p>