Análise de alternativas de rotas disponíveis para a movimentação de grãos e farelos através da hidrovia Tietê-Paraná

Abstract

The transportation through waterway systems is considered as the most economical one for bulk volumes. In view of that, there have been a lot of expectations from the Tietê-Paraná waterway system, specially on the eventual reduction of the heavy load of transportation costs for grains produced in the Center-West region of Brazil and demanded by São Paulo State. In this study, through the use of a network model, it is observed that multi-mode alternatives which include that alternative suffer competition of variable level from the road system, which is mainly determined as a function of the origin-destination pair involved, the increase in the distance hauled in comparison to the transportation through the highway system, the cost of transhipment and the waterway costs.