Entre Belém e Castanhal: rede de transportes e circuito inferior da economia

Abstract

The study presents the debate concerning the transports in the space of circulation between Belém city and Castanhal city. The objective of this study is to demonstrate and to prove the inadequacy of the public transportations and the need of public politics than consider new variables in the metropolitan space, as the passengers' alternative transport, towards the regional development. The methodology used is historical and dialectical materialism and the research is qualitative and quantitative character, where did desk research and field research. This work is divided in 3 chapters: "Inferior circuit of the economy, state and transport system"; it "Transports alternative of passengers between Belém and Castanhal: a precarious complementarity"; it "Transports alternative of passengers: a new space variable in the metropolis". Where we drew the discussions concerning to demands for the transport and the need of state intervention in the circulation system, to give the necessary connection to the metropolitan space. To develop the study it was made a ten year-old temporary cutting (1998 - 2008), and space starting from the people's circulation between Belém and Castanhal.