Railways

Donor: Metropolitan Transportation Company of Ceara

Budget: € 200,000

Project Description:

This feasibility study project of the Railway Connection Scheme between Fortaleza and Mucuripe, Ceara State, in Brazil, included the following activities:

First Phase:

• Socioeconomic characterisation of the study area;
• Analysis of mobility;
• Study of the transport system;
• Land use.

Second Phase:

• Study of transport demand, including the implementation of traffic surveys, preferences revealed and declared in the various modes of transport in the area;
• Definition of technological alternatives;
• Programme of exploitation;
• Analysis of economic, social and financial profitability.

Third Phase:

• Preliminary topographic and cadastral studies;
• Preliminary geological and geotechnical studies;
• Preliminary studies of track right of way;
• Preliminary environmental studies;
• Baseline of the railway line Fortaleza-Mucuripe.