Rio de Janeiro is the fourth worst city in the world in terms of time spent on public transport each day. The Global Public Transport Report was prepared by Moovit, a company and urban mobility app, based on the analysis of millions of trips during the year 2022 in 100 large cities, ten of them in Brazil.
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Ten Brazilian metropolitan regions are part of the report: Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campinas, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo. The survey was answered by 33,000 users from these cities in November 2022. All data is anonymous.
Three Brazilian cities are among the 10 with the highest average travel time: Rio de Janeiro (67 minutes); Recife (64 minutes) and São Paulo (62 minutes). Recife has the highest average waiting time in the country, with 27 minutes, followed by Belo Horizonte, with 24 minutes, and Brasilia and Salvador tied, with 23 minutes.
Also according to the Global Report on Public Transport, 12% of trips in Rio are at least 2 hours long. Short trips, under 30 min, grew across the country compared to 2020.
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Moovit also reports that 39% of trips in Brasilia travel more than 12 km, which is considered a long distance. Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul, is the only Brazilian city where more than half of trips (53%) are direct. The combined use of shared bikes with public transport grew by 7% compared to the last report, the document also informs.
“Three years ago, covid-19 strongly impacted the use of public transport. Our report shows that people are moving again in 2022, bringing new challenges for those who operate and manage transport systems. We hope that the report will be a tool that helps operators and governments make decisions to run an efficient operation that meets the needs of passengers,” said Yovav Meydad, vice president of marketing and expansion at Moovit.
In addition to evaluating the data, the report also features an opinion poll with app users. The research wanted to know what would encourage passengers to use public transport more. For 24%, the biggest demand is the increase in the fleet to reduce the waiting time. Then come cheaper tickets with 21%, and more reliable schedules with 16%.
This edition of the report also shows how passengers started to use public transport after the most acute phase of the covid-19 pandemic. Research shows that 17% of passengers have declined to use buses, trains and subways in the past two years. And 9% started to get around in another way, without using public transport.
Ten Brazilian metropolitan regions are part of the report: Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campinas, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo. The survey was answered by 33,000 users from these cities in November 2022. All data is anonymous.
Source: BdF Rio de Janeiro
Editing: Eduardo Miranda
