Anchored in the additions of science, technology and information, platform companies
individual private passenger transport, such as Uber and 99, emerge as global vectors of
modernization, imposing substantive changes in the historical forms of organization of social
life and territories, including the urban space of metropolises and other cities, on a local scale.
This work aims to understand the dynamics of Geography of private passenger transport
mediated by digital apps in Marabá, Pará, considering the consequences for the spheres of work,
politics and the use of territory in the city. The research is of a qualitative nature, based on
bibliographical research theoretical and empirical, with field work, photographic records and
observations in daily life of the researched subjects and agents. The analyzes perform allow us
to consider that the arrival and the beginning of Uber's operations accentuated conflicts in the
passenger transport sector in the city, both transport carried out by private transport Workers
individual and collective public transport by bus, including public Power. In this way, there was
a mobilization of workers in the private transport of passengers and in the local public power
in the sense of preventing or constraining the entry of Uber in Marabá. Six years after the
beginning of Uber's activities, the growth in the number of digital platforms and apps operating
in the city, including the offer of new services, such as the app for transporting passengers by
motorcycle. although companies like Uber and similar define themselves as digitais platforms,
actually they are extremely dependent on the historically built territory and the legacy space for
make their operations possible, leading to conflicts. Besides, it is observed that the banalization
of the technique contributes to the creation of public policies in line with cooperatives and
workers' associations of individual private passenger transport, aiming to minimize conflicts
with the development and use of local apps managed by the workers in the sector themselves.
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