Abstract

KRALICH, Susana. El transporte urbano entre la globalización y la fragmentación: El caso de la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. EURE (Santiago) [online]. 1998, vol.24, n.71, pp. 37-56. ISSN 0250-7161.  doi: 10.4067/S0250-71611998007100003.

With the consolidation of the advanced capitalism, the productive chains are dislocalizated, as well as the internacionalization of the capital oligopolies. They blossom in the underdeveloped world, stimulated by the suburbanization, the adjustment policies, the occupational flexibilization, the unemployment, the privatization and the desregulation of the public services, the hegemony of the market laws and the gradual disappearance of the Welfare State. All items previously mentioned conduce to exasperate the social segregation and exclusion, and cause the growth of the urban violence until unexpected limits. The demographic concentration intensifies and complicates the demands, specially those of transportation, being complicated the management of the transport services and making more difficult the compatibilization of contradictory interests. In this conflict, indefectibility are been perjudiced the growing low resource segments, grow deeper the own inequities of the model. As a result appears cities more and more dualizated. In this framework, the urban services management requires be reconsidered and redesigned, specially in the large agglomerations, where since appears every time as more goad the resolution of the plurality of overlapping administrations than operate fragmentary, dispersing the responsibility on the integral problems to face. This is the case of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region, which we will refer focusing the issue management of the urban transportation