Economic regulation, costs reimbursement and operational control in local bus industries of Belo Horizonte and Petropolis, Brazil

摘要

The concept of flat tariff and the mechanism of the Tariff Compensation Chamber for public bus transport are measures that have been used with success in some Brazilian cities, under a regulation defined to plan and establish adequate levels of service in accordance with the concept of public service, respecting the financial balance of the operators when defining the methods of operational costs and capital reimbursement. The legal marks and respective economic regulations are analised and compared for two Brazilian cities ― Belo Horizonte and Petropolis ― which have different areas, population, morphology, type of bus net and institutional organisation, evaluating the type of reimbursement which characterises each system, establishing a comparative analysis seeking to identify the efficiency, complexity and representativeness levels of each case analised.