7 things you didn’t know about the traffic in Brazil

Posted on 13-06-2014 at 12:04 by CasperH – 14 Comments”

Playing tonight the Dutch Team its first match at the world cup in Brazil. Brazil is a huge country and there are big challenges in the field of infrastructure and transport.

• Brazil is currently the fourth largest market worldwide when it comes to car sales. The expectation is that within not too long of a time in Japan of the third impact and only the U.S. and China still have to endure. On average, there are 200 cars per 1000 inhabitants, but the sales will double in the coming years, up to 6.6 million new cars in 2020.

• Almost all freight transportation in Brazil is done by truck. In 2010 were six million light, medium and heavy trucks registered, and also a small 700.000 buses. The amount of transport via boat and plane is negligible. Every day, to 900,000 vehicles use the two largest highways of the country: “Bandeirantes” and “Anhanguera” the two main routes between Sao Paolo and Campinas.

• Diesel is forbidden for cars so “the people”, runs on gasoline or ethanol. Yet, more than half of the sold fuel, diesel, which illustrates how immense many trucks and buses there are, relatively speaking, to drive in Brazil.

• Many cars in Brazil have at their disposal a FlexFuel system from Bosch that makes sure that on one of two fuels or a blend of both fuels can be ridden. About 90% of the passenger cars is equipped with such a system, and there are now more than 10 million cars built on this system. Spoken about it: there are hefty import duties on cars in Brazil so almost all manufacturers build in Brazil cars to the competition.

• Traffic jams are a big problem, according to Time Magazine is Sao Paulo, for example, the worst city in the world in terms of files. Also in the TomTom Traffic Congestion Index takes the city, always a place in the top 10. The worst recorded amount of files for the city was made on 23 may 2014, with a total of 344 kilometres of stationary traffic during the evening rush hour. Each year, a growing vehicle fleet of the city, with 7.5%, there are every day almost 1000 new cars sold and the average spent on a commuter, about 3 to 4 hours per day in the car to get between home and work to travel. One tries the crowds by making the final of license plates on certain days of the movement to ban but despite this, the problems become increasingly larger.

• By both economic and social inequality, the elite of Brazil are often free game to are expensive importwagens to misbehave in traffic. Something that we have seen in the past on videos such as this. (vehicle registration) systems along the highway knows Brazil hasn’t really.

• Also Brazil move towards stricter environmental standards. Because the Euro 5 emission there is coming a large part of the heavy fleet way, even though life is not at an end. This opens mogelijkhgeden for both the export and aftermarket customers.