COVID-19, public agglomerations and economic effects: Assessing the recovery time of passenger transport services in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: The outbreak of COVI-19 and the restrictive measures on the mobility of people in Brazil have raised serious concerns about the survival and recovery of passenger transport companies, especially those that generate public agglomerations. There are some policy proposals that aim to recover this set of sectors in the face of the adverse effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. This study contributes to this debate in course and analyzes the economic effects of two scenarios of recovery for this type of transport services in the Brazilian economy up to the end of 2022: (i) one with a 50% recovery until the end of 2021 and (ii) another with a 50% sectorial recovery until June 2022. This distinction allows us to assess the impact of the speed of recovery. In both scenarios, we also consider likely cha

SUBMITTER: Betarelli Junior AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9188763 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature