Estudo comparativo entre empresas ferroviárias - um estudo das diferenças do mercado privado e estatal

Abstract

With the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, it was noticed that the railway sector had great importance for the economy, because it increases the speed of the transport of loads, decreases the value of the displacement and increases the number of exchanges of products. Currently in Brazil, there are two types of organizations in the railway sector, the state, where the government is the administrator of the organization, and the private sector, which emerged after the creation of the National Privatization Program created by then President Fernando Collor de Melo. Between the two sectors, data obtained through the National Land Transport Agency were used, in which it was possible to understand and compare investment strategies in the improvement of rail freight services, as well as to obtain performance indicators such as freight transport, types of products transported and availability of locomotives from both companies, allowing a comparation between public and private administration.