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Curitiba

• Curitiba is a system which provides a
  third-world solution to a third world problem
  not to entice passengers out of their cars but
  rather to provide basic public transport for an
  impoverished population Transit Australia

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Early History

• Founded in 1693, official capital of Parana in
  1842

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Early History

• Two economic cycles of maté and wood, led to the
  construction of the Paranagua-Curitiba railroad

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Early History

• Immigrants came in waves between the 18th and
  19th centuries for labor

• Adopted ideas of urban planning and city
  management

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History of Planning

• French Urban Planner Alfred Agache
• 1943 - The Agache Plan

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History of Planning

• Ivo Arzo
• Called for new plan

• Jaime Lerner
• 1965 Curitiba Master Plan

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Simplicity Is Our System

• Mayor Jaime Lerner (1971)
• Former president of the Curitiba Research and
  Urban Planning Institute (IPPUC)
• Election gave power to IPPUC

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Simplicity Is Our System

• Curitiba Master Plan
• Growth planned along designated axes rather than
  in all directions
• Trinary Road System
• Integrated Transport Network (Rede Integrade de
  Transporte)

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Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de
Curitiba (IPPUC)

• Founded 1965
• IPPUC was created as a Municipal Independent
  Public Authority.

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Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de
Curitiba (IPPUC)

• Participate in every development phase of the
  Curitiba Preliminary Urban Plan

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Integrated Transport Network

• Zoning- trinary road system
• Separated into four different zones
• Structural sector
• ZR 4
• ZR 3
• ZR 2

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Integrated Transport Network

• The bus system was designed to function like a
  subway system
• In terms of amount of people it could trasport
  (up to 20,000 pple/hour during rush hour) and
  frequency
• off-vehicle fare collection
• No additional payment for interchanging between
  buses
• Bi-Articulated busses
• 80.4 meters in length
• Five passenger doors
• 270 pple/ 57 seats
• Bus stops 400-500 meters

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Facts about the busway network

• Station and Terminals
• Tubes with off-vehicle fare collection
• High platform boarding at the tube (handicap
  accessible)

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Facts about the busway network

• Bus routes
• 1550-1600 buses
• 340 bus lines
• 60km segregated busways
• 26 major and moderate size integration-interchange
  terminals
• 1.9-2.1 million trips per day (demand)

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Facts about the busway network

• Bus routes
• Five different buses

• Different color buses for different routs

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Ecological Capital of Brazil

• 1970 Less than 1 sq meters of green space per
  person

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Ecological Capital of Brazil

• 2002 52 sq meters of green space per person
• Government Incentives
• Tax Breaks
• Green Exchange
• Garbage Thats Not Garbage