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| Author(s): |
Daniel Monteiro Huertas
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-08-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Mónica Arroyo;
Ricardo Abid Castillo;
Fabio Betioli Contel;
Frederic Jean Marie Monié;
Márcio Rogério Silveira
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| Advisor: | Maria Mónica Arroyo |
| Abstract | |
The road freight transport is the object of study of this thesis, which assumes that its structure and organization in the Brazilian territory were followed by a selective spatial process that privileged certain points and areas in detriment of others, highlighting a geographic network which reveals the land use. The hypothesis also takes into account the fact that the road freight transport, from the mid-1990s, entered into a time of structural changes and conjunctures consistent with the variables of the current historical period, consequence of the perverse globalization that overwhelms the world with hegemonic events that serve the designs of capital. We intend to demonstrate that the road cargo freight creates a proper topology, whose territorial configuration consists of nodals and lines which together creates a geographic network model capable of expressing the interactions and geographic dissociation of places, intrinsic to the Brazilian social and spatial formation. We believe that this way, methodologically based on the labor territorial division, in the circuits of the urban economy and in productive space circuits, provides a very interesting reading in regards to the different uses of the territory, strongly highlighting the hierarchy of places and the correlation forces between the agents operating the road cargo freight. To confirm this idea, we identify the nodals regarded as the ultimate expression of the road freight spatial selectivity and divided into four levels that, to concentrate a number of geographic attributes which produces functionalities, hierarchies and polarities, help explain the geographic network in question. The starting point is what we propose to call \"paulista polygon\", a primary nodal with unique polarizing force, responsible for determining the routes, cargo transit deadlines and freight value of much of the country. Next there are the secondary polyfunctional nodals, those in which the spatial circuits of industrial production are the support of the charge-generating activities, and monofunctional, related to production specialization, geographic situation or logistic trade of the wholesaler and distributor. The fourth level adds the set of tertiary nodals, centers responsible for the microregional route distribution and within the urban areas in intermediate cities. We also seek to prove that the conservative modernization and historical and chronicle regional differences cannot be explained apart from the vertiginous growth of road freight transport in all its complexity. In other words, we believe that to understand the contradictions of Brazil in the current period, requires a more complete geographical understanding of the rooting and capillarity of the road modals in just five decades. (AU) | |