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The purpose of this chapter is to identify the requirements of public transport modernization and resulting impacts on people’s daily life and social inequalities, with specific regard to the case of Santiago de Chile. The public transport policy developed from a period of deregulation in the 1980s to reregulation since the late 1990s, which seems to have had significant impact on users’ travel habits and competences. During the period of deregulation, the service was characterized by an uncoordinated, oversupply of private buses, complementary to the efficient but rather small public metro network. In order to eliminate the stigmatization attached to public transport as the “mode of the poor,” the period of reregulation finally culminated in the establishment of the “sophisticated Transantiago” system in February 2007. The Transantiago project envisaged total modernization of the transport industry by reorganizing the bus network under private operation, renewing the fleet and bus infrastructure, establishing advanced public regulation and monitoring tools, and introducing a tariff union with the metro and new electronic tickets. However, the design and implementation process of this ambitious project failed, and in its first 2 years of existence, the Transantiago was increasingly rejected by parts of the population.
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Witter, R., Hernández, D. (2012). Santiago de Chile and the Transantiago: Social Impact. In: Bolay, JC., Schmid, M., Tejada, G., Hazboun, E. (eds) Technologies and Innovations for Development. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0268-8_4
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