Transporte ferroviário de cargas e atividade econômica: uma análise a partir dos indicadores de produção, renda e emprego

Abstract

Freight transportation plays an important role in trade flows between regions and has a network of modes that are divided into road, rail, waterway and air. The consolidation of these modes through public and private investments represents a means of growth and movement of economic activities. The objective of this monograph is to analyze the impacts of rail freight transport on the economy through the use of production, income and employment multipliers. These were calculated based on the 2010 input-output matrix released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and had as an innovation the use of the disaggregated matrix for the freight transport sector, whose work was carried out by the laboratory research group of Territorial and Sectoral Analyzes (LATES). This monograph was based on the methodology of the input-output matrix of Miller and Blair (1985) to characterize intersectorial relations and measure the impacts that the variation in final demand has on production, income and employment from the perspective of a matrix. The main results achieved projected that for rail freight transport, the increase of an additional monetary unit requires a multiplier effect of 1.98 for production, creation of 23.81 jobs and growth of 0.36 in income. The analyzes carried out on the multipliers seek to contribute to ongoing discussions and debates on the expansion of the railway network and to guide the formation of policies.