Transporte Coletivo Urbano: As Práticas de Transformação de Chassi Convencional em Articulado Operados na Cidade de Manaus/AM

Abstract

Public transport in a city has different types, configurations and peculiar characteristics of the rolling stock that is operated by the bus companies, which seek mechanisms to obtain economic and competitive advantages with practices of reusing vehicles and even transforming some in order to increase transport capacity, aspects that were present in urban transport in the city of Manaus between the years 1998 and 2009. These practices are known as re-fuelling and transforming conventional buses into articulated buses, actions that made it possible to reduce costs with the purchase of new articulated rolling stock, but these practices stopped occurring around 2009. In order to identify these changes in technical objects, it was decided to search for information on the internet on sites such as Ônibus Brasil y ViaCircular, which allowed us to cross-reference information and partially identify the vehicles that were rebuilt. After the survey was carried out, it was identified that a further 40 buses had been transformed to enable passenger transport operations in the city's system and that they had operations between the years 1998 and 2012 and in 2015.