The need to balance the Brazilian transport matrix

Abstract

The transportation service is extremely important for economic growth, as it is through it that goods and people can be moved. The five most widely used modes are: road, rail, water, pipeline and air. The unbalanced use of these modes can be detrimental to the country, i.e. if problems such as strikes occur, it can prevent production from leaving, supplying supermarkets, hospitals, gas stations, generating a lot of inconvenience for the population, as well as generating losses at origin and destination and consequently leading to major losses (COLAVITE and KONISHI, 2015).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevenIengineering-010