Tag: transport infrastructure

By Ciara Long, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A study by UFRJ’s Architecture and Urbanism Faculty has found that Rio’s Centro Zone, excluding the Port Zone, has the capacity to build 150,000 residential properties in abandoned or unused...

By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Poor track maintenance may have been behind three SuperVia train derailments in the last two weeks, the rail network’s concessionaire admitted in a press release last Friday. SuperVia also...

By Mary Carroll, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Along with massive infrastructure and transport investments to happen in Rio by the 2016 Olympics, a third of all conventional buses will be taken off the roads according to...

By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Last month saw the completion of the 3,400 mile Transoceanic Highway, linking the Amazonian state of Acre in Brazil with the ports of Ilo, Matarani and San...