By Gladimir do Nascimento, President, URBS – Urbanization of Curitiba S.A Presented at Transforming Transportation 2016

1. www.TransformingTransportation.org
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

2. INTEGRATING TRANSPORT GOVERNANCE
ACROSS MULTIPLE MUNICIPALITIES
Experiences and Challenges in
the Transport Integrated Net of
Curitiba and the Metropolitan
Area
Jan 2016
Gladimir do Nascimento
URBS – Urbanization of Curitiba S.A
President

3. UITP
Brazil
Paraná
Curitiba
1.75 million inhabitants

4. Curitiba and Metropolitan Area

5. System History
North / South Corridor (BRT)
1
9
7
4

6. Green Line
2
0
0
9
System History

7. Main Marks
• Priority of Public Transportation over individual
• Main lines (Trunk) / Feeder lines.
• Closed Terminals for InLarge access to any
destination 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 the
integration.
• 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

8. LAND USE
PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION
STREET
NETWORK
ENVIRONMENT
Master Plan

9. 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

10. 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 250250
TerminalsTerminals 2121
Km (wd)Km (wd) 327.579327.579
Tube StationsTube Stations 345345
832832
458.298458.298
105105
99
144.520144.520
1414
2.4052.405
2.200.0052.200.005
355355
3030
472.099472.099
359359
DATA URBAN
SYSTEM
INTEGRATED
METROPOLITAN
TOTAL
RIT
Operational Summary

11.  Public Control
 Fare–Own Parameters
 Open Data
Experiences and Solutions

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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

16. • Oct 17 /1990 – Municipal aw n. 7556 – States about the public transportation
of passengers and constitutes URBS as the manager and only service
concessionary.
Apr 23 /1991 - Decree n. 210 - Regulates public transportation service.
Metropolitan Area
• Jan 31 /1996 - Agreement - State Government (COMEC) and the Municipality
of Curitiba (URBS) - Constitutes to URBS the activities of planning and
management of metropolitan transport
Present Legislation
• Jan 17 /2008 - Law n. 12.597 – States about the organization of Public
Transportion System in Curitiba, with inoventions and improvement in
management and service operation.
• Dec 15 /2008 - Decree n. 1.356 – Regulates the services of public
transportation 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

17. 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)

18. 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.

19. 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

20. • 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

21. 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

22. 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 ....

23. 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.

24. 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