🌆Case Study - Curitiba

Question 1

Where is Curitiba

Answer 1

. Capital city of the Parana state in Brazil
. South east Brazil

Question 2

How many live in Curitiba

Answer 2

Nearly 2 million

Question 3

Bus system cost vs metro

Answer 3

Bus system costs 200 times less than a metro system

Question 4

What % of BRIT users previously travelled by car?

Answer 4

30%

Question 5

Curitiba uses ___% less fuel per capita and ___ less car trips

Answer 5

. 30%
. 30 million

Question 6

What does the ticket do on the BRIT?

Answer 6

Pays for itself

Question 7

What % of commuters use the BRIT

Answer 7

80% - 50x higher than the numbers who used buses previously

Question 8

What % of their income do Curitiba spend on transport?

Answer 8

10%

Question 9

Subway vs BRIT cost to build

Answer 9

Subways can cost $2 billion/mile whereas the BRT cost $40million/mile

Question 10

Average bus speeds on express routes compared to other routes

Answer 10

Average bus speeds are 19mph on the express routes compared to 12mph on the other routes

Question 11

How many passengers a day?

Answer 11

25,000 - 2mi

Question 12

How often do buses arrive?

Answer 12

Every 60 seconds

Question 13

You are never more than ____ from a bus stop

Answer 13

400m

Question 14

How many users did the bus system loose between 2008 and 2014

Answer 14

14 million

Question 15

What is car ownership in Curitiba compared to the national average?

Answer 15

Car ownership in Curitiba is 0.63 cars per resident compared with a national average of 0.27 cars per resident

Question 16

Why is Curitiba’s car ownership so high?

Answer 16

Increasing levels of wealth in the city (Curitiba now has the second highest HDI ranking in Brazil)

Question 17

City’s spending on landscaping vs housing

Answer 17

The city spends more on landscaping than it does on housing

Question 18

What % of the population live in sub standard housing?

Answer 18

10-15%

Question 19

Why has the BRIT been criticised?

Answer 19

For stopping at the city limits rather than extending into the poorer suburbs

Question 20

How many bus line?

Answer 20

340

Question 21

How many buses?

Answer 21

2100

Question 22

How many trips a day?

Answer 22

2 million

Question 23

What does Curitiba offer its residents?

Answer 23

. Happy clean environment to live in
. Peaceful
. Good QOL

Question 24

5 kilos of waste =

Answer 24

1 kilo of fruit

Question 25

How quickly can a park be built?

Answer 25

2 months

Question 26

What have parks done to properties?

Answer 26

Increased their prices

Question 27

Concrete wall costs

Answer 27

100m of concrete wall = cost of school so money can be spent on other things

Question 28

Green space per inhabitant

Answer 28

4x recommended level

Question 29

What are the slums built on?

Answer 29

Illegally on wet land

Question 30

What will happen to residents once the slums are demolished?

Answer 30

Rehoused

Question 31

Who is designing the new houses to replace the slums?

Answer 31

Free architects designing homes with low interest mortgages