The development process of Brazilian cities presents essential elements in cargo and passenger
transport that have sustained the production of urban space over the centuries; in this way, the
means of transport participate in the structuring of the urban space, articulating the center and
its sub-centers with the peripheral spaces. This guarantees the permanence of processes that
characterize socio-spatial inequality. In recent years, debates have orbited between
environmental sustainability policies and urban mobility in the face of metropolization
processes. The particularities of the Amazonian space require theoretical and methodological
efforts capable of articulating the process of metropolization of space and the role developed
by transport as an actuating element, articulating and regulating spatial interactions. Based on
these elements, and assuming the object of this thesis, the objective proposed in this research is
to analyze the main urban passenger transport system in the metropolitan area of Belém; seeks
to understand the role of the State in relation to the main strategies identified in the
territorialities of transport agents over the past two decades; to analyze the expression of these
territorialities in the movements of expansion of the transport system and market, as an element
that composes the process of metropolization of space by articulating the center with its sub centers and its peripheries, which guarantees the maintenance of the processes of socio-spatial
inequality in the metropolitan space. The methodological procedures developed approximate
the dialogues constituted by the theoretical foundation, supported in large volume in the
analysis of data and information from primary sources, and secondary data - some worked in
an environment of Geographic Information Systems (GIS's) that put on and subsidize essential
elements for the analytical approaches proposed in this thesis. The results of this research
demonstrate phenomena intrinsic to public transport in the Amazon context, reveals the
precariousness programmed in the passenger transportation service offered by the transport
agents, with the consent of the State, reveal the metamorphoses in the capitals of the transport
agents with predominant performance in the system, analyzes the corporate structure of the
companies and the territorial movements that allow to affirm that there is active participation
of the transport agents in the process of metropolization of Belém. In this way, public transport
acts as a component of greatness in the process of metropolization of Belém and has had
throughout its trajectory conflicts dimensioned in ruptures and continuities in the phenomenon
of urban displacement of passengers.
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