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Urbanisation (Rio) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 2013 statistics
        
        The National Department of Traffic (Denatran) statistics show that over the last ten years, the number of cars in Brazil has increased 123 percent
        
        the number of vehicles in Brazil will top 80 million for the first time
  - - - traffic management difficult
        
        improvments made due to hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
        
        noise and air pollution from vehicle exhausts
        
        Rio de Janeiro is the most congested city in South America
        
        Rio Niteroi Bridge
        
        14 km long
        
        opened in 1974
        
        connects Rio with the city of Niteroi
        
        each end of the bridge is completely jammed at rush hour causing major congestion.
        
        The Yellow Line Expressway
        
        21 km
        
        opened in 1997
        
        connects Barra da Tijuca in the West Zone with Rio’s North Zone and the international airport.
        
        a toll road
        
        Seventy thousand vehicles use the road each day
        
        road tolls in the city centre are being introduced.
        
        higher fuel consumption
        
        higher fuel consumption
        and greater risk of accidents
      - Tunnels through mountains have also been constructed to improve transport links across the city.
- - - - main form of public transport
      - almost four hundred and forty bus lines
      - over four million passengers each day
      - fare increases
      - low quality of service
      - The system is relatively safe by day but less so at night.
    - - first BRT corridor is 32km long
        
        links the neighbourhoods of Santa Cruz and Barra da Tijuca
        
        cut travel times by 50 per cent
      - Another three BRT corridors will be opened by 2016
        
        connect Rio’s most populous regions
      - part of a green initiative for sustainable transport
    - - two subway lines
      - over 26 miles
      - 35 stations
      - several commuter rail lines
      - Future plans
        
        a third line to Barra da Tijuca and Zona Oeste
        
        the expansion of Line One
        
        An additional line, Line 4 (blue line), is planned to be completed by 2016
      - The Metro is Rio's safest and cleanest form of public transport
      - Subway cars can be overcrowded
      - the metro is a cheap and fast way to commute.
    - - the oldest operating electric tramway in Brazil
      - mainly used by tourists
      - quick, fun, cheap way of getting around.
    - - over ninety miles of bicycle paths in the city
      - along the beaches of Copacabana, Ipanema, Flamengo and Lelbon, as well as a path circling Lagoa
      - An additional ninety miles of path are planned to be finished for this year.
      - ‘Bike Rio’ began operations in October 2011
      - bicycle sharing system
      - The system has 600 bicycles available at 60 rental stations located in 14 neighbourhoods throughout the city.