A INFLUÊNCIA DA INFRAESTRUTURA DE TRANSPORTE RODOVIÁRIO NAS TRANSFORMAÇÕES DA MESORREGIÃO NORDESTE DE MATO GROSSO

Abstract

From 1950 on, road transport infrastructure earned notoriety in the national development plans, which gradually co-opted the participation of other transport modes. The justification for the expansion of the Brazilian road network happened through th rhetoric that they would automatically promote the economic development of the regions contemplated by the investments. Thus, this research has as main objective to seek a better understanding of the effects of investments in transport infrastructure over the territory, inserted in different contexts and scales. To this end, bibliographies were analyzed that describe the effects of investments in transportation in different contexts of insertion, regional historical bibliography and data collection of analysis variables, defined according to criteria of relevance, availability and that are composed of demographic, economic and land indicators. In this way, it was possible to elaborate tables and thematic maps, which made possible the verification of the distribution of the variables in the space, as well as the quantification of the variables in the two groups of municipalities: "crossed" and "not crossed" by BR-158. The conclusions of the research indicate that the BR-158 was, in fact, a structural factor of the geo-economic space of the Northeastern Mesoregion of Mato Grosso, since it directly influenced the land concentration and the retraction of the indigenous territory. In addition, the highway generated concentration: populational, companies and agricultural production, which reflected in the concentration of GDP and Municipal HDI in the proximity of its route. Moreover, the occupation history and the data collected show that road transport infrastructure did not trigger economic growth by itself, since it was inserted within a context of strong state and private interventions, which acted together in the transformations of the studied territory, as well as did not generate uniform effects, represented by the unequal distribution of variables within and between the groups of municipalities "crossed" and "not crossed" by the highway.