Railway transportation, regional integration and territorial development. Connecting the Atlantic to the South American Pacific

Abstract

In the context of globalized production and global markets, some issues become more important, especially those related to transportation costs; delivery opportunity; quality of service; transportation volume; access to infrastructure, markets and supplies - among others - in its relationship to territorial sustainable development process. However, some areas cannot take advantage of that context, as in the case of Northern Peru and some regions of Brazil - especially in the Amazon region. The population of these territories has few development possibilities; mainly due to the difficulty for mobilize their production at competitive costs to markets. Faced with this situation, the project Atlantic Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Peru - Brazil (FETAB) aims to connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America; so that the articulation to the interior of Peru and Brazil would be promoted as well as the connectivity between both countries and other markets, generating new territorial dynamics; we believe that these will increase the chances of development for the populations involved.