Transport in Curitiba
Efficient transportation infrastructure is vital to the success of a city. Curitiba is widely recognized for its efficient and widely used bus system. When it came time to renovate the existing transportation system, the city planners decided to work from the bus system already in place, around which the city had been built. The buses are locally assembled by Volvo, reducing transportation costs for the city that would be inflated if buses were imported from abroad.
With IPPUC behind the entire process, Curitiba redesigned their transportation infrastructure. It was designed to function like a subway system in terms of the amount of people it could transport and the frequency between routes. It has proven a good decision because the economic and time costs would have been significantly greater if the city had opted to construct a subway system; excavation for a subway can take years if not decades. The money that Curitiba has saved has been allocated to other social causes. The city layout itself has encouraged the wide use of the bus system because it is reliable and easier to use than a private car. The IPPUC architects replaced the old, noisy, and polluting buses with those that were cleaner and more efficient
