Análise descritiva do equilíbrio (desequilíbrio) econômico financeiro dos contratos de concessão do sistema de Transporte público coletivo regular do município de Fortaleza

Abstract

The balance economic-financial of contracts, beyond the legal conceptualization, is the fundamental importance for maintenance of public system transports in Brazil and world. The existence of imbalances certainly deserves a better attention of authorities, businessmen, users and society. Customarily it’s a question without due professionalization, using populism and way of dealing with things. The result comes each year getting worse: scrapping of fleet, precarious services, bankruptcies, falling demand, escalating costs, in a vicious cycle and lead the systems to breakdown. The objective of this work is identify the existence or not of imbalances economic-financial of concession contracts the collective transportation public service in the municipality of Fortaleza, in case of confirmation, know the real dimension and study some it’s causes. Using official dates from Urban Transport Company of Fortaleza (ETUFOR), analyses the relationship revenue and costs of service over time the period of validity of contracts. Also are evaluated aspects that directly affect this imbalance economic financial, such us: delays to the implementation the rate adjustment and methodology of verification costs and price calculation. The evidences deserved indicate the existence of imbalances economic-financial of systems, arise from three main factors: falling demand, escalating costs and adoption of procedures inadequate in use of method out of date verification of costs