1. Curitiba
“Curitiba is a system which provides a third-world solution to a third world problem… not to entice passengers out of their cars but rather to provide basic public transport for an impoverished population” –Transit Australia

2. Early History
Founded in 1693, official capital of Parana in 1842

3. Early History
Two economic cycles of maté and wood, led to the construction of the Paranagua-Curitiba railroad

4. Early History
Immigrants came in waves between the 18th and 19th centuries for labor
Adopted ideas of urban planning and city management

5. History of Planning French Urban Planner Alfred Agache
The Agache Plan

6. History of Planning Ivo Arzo Called for new plan Jaime Lerner
1965 Curitiba Master Plan

7. “Simplicity Is Our System”
Mayor Jaime Lerner (1971)
Former president of the Curitiba Research and Urban Planning Institute (IPPUC)
Election gave power to IPPUC

8. “Simplicity Is Our System”
Curitiba Master Plan
Growth planned along designated axes rather than in all directions
Trinary Road System
Integrated Transport Network (Rede Integrade de Transporte)

9. Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de Curitiba (IPPUC)
Founded 1965
IPPUC was created as a Municipal Independent Public Authority.

10. Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de Curitiba (IPPUC)
Participate in every development phase of the Curitiba Preliminary Urban Plan

11. Integrated Transport Network
Zoning- trinary road system
Separated into four different zones
Structural sector
ZR 4
ZR 3
ZR 2

12. Integrated Transport Network
The bus system was designed to function like a subway system
In terms of amount of people it could trasport (up to 20,000 pple/hour during rush hour) and frequency
off-vehicle fare collection
No additional payment for interchanging between buses
Bi-Articulated busses
80.4 meters in length
Five passenger doors
270 pple/ 57 seats
Bus stops meters

13. Facts about the busway network
Station and Terminals
Tubes with off-vehicle fare collection
High platform boarding at the tube (handicap accessible)

14. Facts about the busway network
Bus routes
buses
340 bus lines
60km segregated busways
26 major and moderate size integration-interchange terminals
million trips per day (demand)

15. Facts about the busway network
Bus routes
Five different buses
Different color buses for different routs

17. Ecological Capital of Brazil
1970 – Less than 1 sq meters of green space per person

18. Ecological Capital of Brazil
2002 – 52 sq meters of green space per person
Government Incentives
Tax Breaks
“Green Exchange”
“Garbage That’s Not Garbage”