Bicycle as a mode of transport in brazil: Joint action of society, sustainability and innovation

Abstract

The use of bicycles as a mode of transport is widely disseminated around the world, being its choice dependent on several factors as culture, socioeconomic, environmental aspects, public policies, among others. In this paper, we highlight features of Brazilian bicycle market (demand and supply), showing (i) that demand responds mainly to increasing on infrastructure and traffic safety and (ii) improvements on scale and technological content in productive firms are important to warrant national supply. In a nutshell, this economic approach is used to affirm that a joint action through policy makers, specialists and society tends to be the main policy to improve bicycle as modal transport.