Planos de desenvolvimento e desigualdade de transporte em Barcarena

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the inequalities in the transportation system generated by the implementation of the Barcarena Industrial District (DIB), between the system available for the necessary transportation to the large installed enterprises and the system offered for the necessary transportation of the traditional communities and other people marginalized by the implementation of the DIB, equipment that impacts on the improvement of the municipal income level (economic growth), without generating development, improvement of public services in general, and the transportation of people and cargo in Barcarena, in particular. The thesis relates the development plans for Amazonia to their objectives, the management of governments, and the unequal treatment of the transportation system, favoring companies. This reality was understood and analyzed from field research in the five municipal districts, when observation procedures, document analysis and interviews were performed. Thus, even considering the preference for corporate logistics, it was noticed the reduced investment in infrastructure, the main factor of demand by companies, to achieve greater profitability each year. Otherwise, even if there are innovative and up-to-date urban development and mobility plans, they are not implemented and the population is displaced to peripheral spaces, being isolated and deprived of public policies on transport services. This is the result of the absence of collective actions that reduce transport inequalities, a sign of the low convergence of municipal management, business and civil society objectives that benefit the transport system. The transport system that serves the population has remained in the same operation, regardless of spatial changes since the 1980s. In particular, river transport, which by its characteristics, encourages and preserves solidarity, cultural identity, citizenship and community network; elements that strengthen collective memories and redefine boundaries that identify their importance for life in Barcarena and the Amazon