Gestão de redes subterrâneas de infraestrutura urbana na cidade de Curitiba/PR: diagnóstico e sugestões de melhorias

Abstract

The implementation of utilities in cities’ underground is a trend around the world. Seen as a way to avoid the visual impacts and ensure reliability, the uncoordinated burial of assets without any standard parameter ends up causing a major challenge both for the utility companies, which manage those assets, as for public administrators and the citizens. In the City of Curitiba it is no different. This paper seeks to identify how utilities companies in the City of Curitiba and the municipal authorities deal with the challenge of managing their infrastructure that supply the population with public services in the urban area and how this process can be improved. Through a diagnostic process, an analysis of the experiences adopted in other cities and a review of existing information technologies tools for urban management, the suggestions for improvement proposed aim to bring greater efficiency and transparency both in the management of assets and for the investment of public funds. The application of this study comes against the rise in public investments for urban infrastructure experienced in recent years and the interest of the population, which finances this activity and reap its benefits through a development of citizenship and social welfare.