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Experiences and Challenges in the

Transport Integrated Net of Curitiba and

the Metropolitan Area

Gladimir do Nascimento, President,

URBS – Urbanization of Curitiba S.A

Presented at Transforming Transportation 2016

INTEGRATING TRANSPORT GOVERNANCE

ACROSS MULTIPLE MUNICIPALITIES

Experiences and Challenges in the Transport Integrated Net ofCuritiba and the Metropolitan

Area

Jan 2016

Gladimir do Nascimento

URBS – Urbanization of Curitiba S.A

President

UITP

Brazil

Paraná

Curitiba

1.75 million inhabitants

Curitiba and Metropolitan Area

System History

North / South Corridor (BRT)1974

Green Line

2009

System History

Main Marks

• Priority of Public Transportation over individual

• Main lines (Trunk) / Feeder lines.

• Closed Terminals for InLarge access to anydestination in system with a single fare = R$3,30 (U$ 0,82). On Sundays = R$ 1,50 (U$0,37)

• Integration.

• 83,5 km – BRT corridors.

• Terminals out of the main axis enlarge theintegration.

• U$ 1,00 = R$ 4,04- www.bcb.gov.br – Jan. 2016

BRT Corridors – Mass Transport

Inter Districts Lines

Feeder Lines

Urban Integrated Terminal

Direct Lines

LAND USE

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

STREET NETWORK

ENVIRONMENT

Master Plan

RIT – Transport Integrated Net

Integrated Municipalities

• Curitiba

• Campo Magro

• Campo Largo

• Araucária

• Fazenda Rio Grande

• São José dos Pinhais

• Pinhais

• Colombo

• Rio Branco do Sul

• Almirante Tamandaré

• Contenda

• Itaperuçu

• Piraquara

• Bocaiúva do Sul

Total Bus Fleet 1.573

Transported Passengers (wd) 1.741.707

Lines / Routes 250

Terminals 21

Km (wd) 327.579

Tube Stations 345

832

458.298

105

9

144.520

14

2.405

2.200.005

355

30

472.099

359

DATA URBAN SYSTEM

INTEGRATED METROPOLITAN

TOTAL RIT

Total Bus FleetTotal Bus Fleet 1.5731.573

Transported Passengers (wd)Transported Passengers (wd) 1.741.7071.741.707

Lines / RoutesLines / Routes 250 250

TerminalsTerminals 2121

Km (wd)Km (wd) 327.579327.579

Tube StationsTube Stations 345345

832832

458.298458.298

105 105

99

144.520144.520

1414

2.4052.405

2.200.0052.200.005

355 355

3030

472.099472.099

359359

DATA URBAN SYSTEM

INTEGRATED METROPOLITAN

TOTAL RIT

Operational Summary

Public Control

Fare–Own Parameters

Open Data

Experiences and Solutions

More Smart Card Users More security

62% users paying with Smart Card

Lines - exclusive payment with smart card

Less money on buses and tube stations

23% less robbery in 2015

Smart Card

Experiences and Solutions

Regulatory Frameworks

Municipal Legislation

Organizes and regulates the management and operation of the Public

Transport System in Curitiba. Sets standards for operation of the service,

forms of remuneration and control, also defining the rights and duties of

users, operators and public authority.

Concession of Urban Transport Services

Defined hiring for operator of the public transport service, establishing

indicators and penalties to ensure the quality of services provided.

Concession: 15 years

System Regulation

FUC – Curitiba Urbanization Fund

Public fund managed by URBS, which gets all income arising from Curitiba’s

public transportation.

City Council of Public Transport

Advisory board formed by public and private entities to promote the

participation of civil society in the planning, monitoring and evaluation of

Curitiba’s public transportation service.

Public Transport Organization

URBS – Public Transport Authority

Joint capital company, under control (99,9%) by the Municipality of Curitiba,

in charge of planning, regulation, management and monitoring of public

transport.

System Regulation

SMF - Municipal Finance

Its function is to estimate the total revenue collected and apply it in various

administrative sectors of the municipality, in accordance with the requirements

established in the budget plan

CMC - Municipality of Curitiba

The councilors have the function to legislate on municipal competence issue,

monitor and control the acts of direct and indirect administration, especially the

management of public money.

TCE / PR - State Audit Court

Body responsible for monitoring the use of public money, the state

and the state's 399 municipalities.

Finance Control

• Oct 17 /1990 – Municipal aw n. 7556 – States about the public transportation

of passengers and constitutes URBS as the manager and only serviceconcessionary.Apr 23 /1991 - Decree n. 210 - Regulates public transportation service.Metropolitan Area

• Jan 31 /1996 - Agreement - State Government (COMEC) and the Municipalityof Curitiba (URBS) - Constitutes to URBS the activities of planning andmanagement of metropolitan transportPresent Legislation

• Jan 17 /2008 - Law n. 12.597 – States about the organization of PublicTransportion System in Curitiba, with inoventions and improvement in management and service operation.

• Dec 15 /2008 - Decree n. 1.356 – Regulates the services of publictransportation with new rights, duties and penalties.

• Dec 17 /2009 - Decree n 1649/2009 – Alters Decree n. 1356/2008

• Feb 25 /2010 - Bidding of Public Transportation (Regulation Mark)

• Nov 28 /2011 - Decree n. 1884/2011 – Alters Decree nº 1356/2008

Previous Legislation

Factors in the financial separation

Urban and Metropolitan System

• Lack of Metropolitan Bidding (commitments in many agreements).

Many delays, in 2014, concerning the financial transfers of

metropolitan subsidies.

• End of 2014, with debt – R$ 16 million related to unpaid metropolitan

subsidies.

• Administrative and judicial risks, with judicial actions and decisions

charging URBS

• Proposal with expressive reduction of metropolitan subsidies (R$ 7,5 to

R$ 2,3 million)

Urban System - Curitiba (URBS)

• Bid consortium.

• Users’ help and information system.

• Quality and security operation with regulatory mark (Law, Decree,

Notice and Contracts).

• Sustainability policy.

• Planning, management, monitoring and public inspection.

• Public Revenue (FUC – fund created by law).

• Public ticketing (generation of credits and control of operation).

• Remuneration of companies based on contract and technical fee

includes ISS and management fee.

• => Curitiba is the only city in the Transport Integrated Net that

provides integration within its urban system.

Metropolitan System – State of Parana Government (COMEC)

• Companies which did not participate in bidding.

• Non-defined quality and security of services

• Lack of information and help for users

• Non-defined sustainability policy

• Limited structure for planning, management and private monitoring and non-existing

public regulation.

• Private revenue (Metrocard – association of companies)

• Private ticketing (generation of credits via Metrocard and control of operation via

Transdata )

• Remuneration of companies without regulatory mark and does not include

management fee and ISS

• Urban / Metropolitan Operational Integration

• Despite the financial separation and lack of specific instrument or

agreement .

• Metropolitan users can still use the urban system of Curitiba.

• The urban system gets the revenues generated in Curitiba and the

metropolitan system gets the revenues generated in the integrated

municipalities.

• The users (urban and metropolitan) still count on the information system of

Curitiba, which has been totally re-adequated , due to lack of metropolitan

information.

Present Situation

Necessity of legal instruments and procedures for:

• Some lines that currently have shared operation will stay in a single system;

• Division of revenues according to axels/bi-articulates shared;

• Definition of an exclusive metropolitan user New metropolitan integrations;

• Sharing costs of urban infra-structure;

• Quality and security of metropolitan buses within the urban system.

Pending Issues - Urban/Metropolitan Integration

Challenges for Urban and Metropolitan Integrated Transport

Institutional:

Regulatory Mark (governing, institutional arrange, operational requirements,

among others); modelling and bidding for metropolitan concession; regulation

and measures based on the Constitution of Large Cities, and so on...)

Infra-structure:

Shared planning and operation, responsibilities in investment and costing

( maintenance and conservation); commom requirements of quality and

operational security, help and information for users; monitoring and inspection of

operation and so on...

Financing:

Income (public or private); fare modelling (integrated or not); resources and

fare subsidies; complementary revenues; fiscal incentives; technological

inoventions, sustainability aims (social, economical and environmentall), and so

on ....

Factors – Key to Urban /Metropolitan Integration

• Respect to long-term planning: trinary system;

• Investment and Maintenance of adequate infra-structure:

exclusive bus lanes, terminals and so on;

• Transport Public Authority:

permanent structure, professionally characterized and qualified

for management and inspection of concession;

• Regulatory Mark and Bidding Contracts.

Av. Presidente Affonso Camargo, 330

CEP 80060 090 Curitiba Paraná Brasil

Fone: 55 41 3320 3171 Fax: 55 41 3232 9475

www.urbs.curitiba.pr.gov.br

gregorio@urbs.curitiba.pr.gov.br

THANK YOU

Gladimir do Nascimento

Director