Cadernos Metrópole 70

The Scientific Editors and Editorial Committee of the journal Cadernos Metrópole invite researchers from areas of knowledge that approach the urban and regional issue to send texts to the organization of volume 29, number 70, about the theme

Fare-free public transport: Impacts, disputes, and prospects for expansion in Brazil

Organizers: Thiago Trindade, Juciano Rodrigues, LetÍcia Birchal Domingues

The June 2013 protests brought the issues of urban mobility and the right to the city to the forefront of the Brazilian political agenda. As a subsequent development, the inclusion of transport as a social right in Article 6 of the Federal Constitution in 2015 substantially reshaped the logic of public debate on transport and mobility policies. In this context, demands for fare-free public transport have gained increasing prominence in academic and political circles.
The continuous rise in the cost of living in large cities, combined with the crisis of public transport (intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic), has driven the issue of urban mobility in general (and fare-free public transport in particular) toward an increasingly central position in electoral debates and in the daily practices of public administration.

Currently, more than 140 municipalities (encompassing nearly 8 million inhabitants) have adopted the fare-free public transport policy, making Brazil an international reference in debates on implemented models and challenges to be addressed. Climate change has also catalyzed initiatives in this direction. In the wake of the idea of “sustainable urban mobility,” fare-free public transport has gained traction, although to a limited extent, even within business and employers’ associations.

While some may consider the theme highly sector-specific, it in fact involves a broad range of questions related to access to basic rights (healthcare, education, social assistance, employment, leisure, etc.), which highlights the role of fare-free public transport as a policy for combating urban segregation. This issue of Cadernos Metrópole seeks to be another vehicle for disseminating this debate, examining the challenges facing cities and urban policy in the present historical conjuncture.

The main themes and issues of interest for this dossier are:
- Fare-free public transport and the expansion of urban mobility for low-income groups and peripheral populations in general;
- The role of fare-free public transport in promoting social justice and building anti-racist cities;
- The impacts of implementing fare-free public transport on the environmental dimension, generation of employment and income, and the increase in economic activity (including tax revenues);
- Demographic and economic profile of municipalities that have adopted the policy;
- Current funding sources for fare-free public transport (and potential new sources);
- Discursive disputes involved in the process of advocating for and implementing fare-free public transport;
- The role of legislative actors in this process;
- The coalitions that have emerged at the intersection between civil society and the state in support of fare-free public transport;
- The historical contribution of social movements and organized collectives to the strengthening of this agenda;
- Theoretical studies that seek to reflect on the relationship between urban mobility and segregation at different levels of analysis.

 

Deadline to send manuscripts: SEPTEMBER 30, 2026

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORS

SCOPE AND EDITORIAL POLICY

The Journal Cadernos Metrópole is published three times a year and focuses on the debate on issues related to urbanization processes and the different forms that the urban question assumes in the contemporary reality. It is targeted at the academic community in general, especially the areas of Architecture and Urbanism, Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Demography and Social Sciences.

The Journal publishes texts authored by researchers and scholars who study urban themes and discuss the effects of socio-spatial transformations on the conditioning of the cities’ political-institutional system, and also challenges to the adoption of management models based on urban governance. The Journal does not publish texts authored by undergraduate students.

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This license allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes. Although new materials must give appropriate credit and may not be used for commercial purposes, users are not obliged to license derived materials under the same terms.

The Journal offers free and immediate access to its content, as it follows the principle that making scientific knowledge available to the public for free enables greater international democratization of knowledge.

The Journal does not charge submission, publication or any other kind of fees on its processes. It is a scientific vehicle targeted at the Brazilian scientific community.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Journal Cadernos Metrópole has a thematic nucleus, with a specific Call for Papers, and a nucleus of free themes related to the areas mentioned above. Thematic texts must be sent within the established deadline and must comply with the requirements of the Call for Papers, while free texts are received by the journal continuously.

The papers can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French.

Papers submitted to Cadernos Metrópole must be submitted through the link https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/metropole/about/submissions.

Papers must NOT contain any kind of author identification.

The Journal does not accept articles having more than 3 authors.

The journal does not publish articles of authorship or co-authorship of graduates. If necessary, they will be cited as "collaborators" at the end of the text.

At least one author/co-author must hold a doctorate degree at the time of submission.

It is fundamental to send the Private Instrument of Authorization and Assignment of Copyright, dated and signed by the author(s). The document must be attached at step 4 of the paper's submission.

The texts will be published in the original language and in English. The quality and costs of the translation will be the sole responsibility of the authors. Translation is mandatory only for texts that are selected for publication.

Translations must have been reviewed by a specialist or equivalent professional, to be paid for by the author. Translations performed by Artificial Intelligence without professional human review will not be accepted.

Authors must comply with an interval of 2 (two) editions for new publication

 

EVALUATION OF PAPERS

Papers received for publication must be original and will be submitted to the appreciation of the members of the Editorial Board and of ad hoc consultants, who will issue their opinions. The papers will receive two evaluations and, whenever necessary, a third one. The anonymity of authors and reviewers is respected.

The Scientific Editors and the Editorial Committee are in charge of the final selection of the texts that were recommended for publication by the reviewers, taking into account their academic-scientific consistency, clearness, relevance, originality and opportune discussion of the theme.

The texts approved by the referees that were not selected for publication in the issue to which they were submitted will be presented to the editors of the subsequent issues, to be published in the Complementary Texts section.

 

COMMUNICATION WITH AUTHORS

The authors will receive an e-mail with the final decision, and the Journal may not return unpublished originals.

 

AUTHOR’S RIGHTS

The Journal cannot afford to pay copyright nor distribute copies of individual papers.

The Private Instrument of Authorization and Assignment of Copyright, dated and signed by the author(s), must be sent with the paper.

The content of the text is the authors’ responsibility.

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a data availability statement for the data used or generated in the research underlying the texts.

The final version of the approved article will be published with the name of the editor or editors responsible for the manuscript evaluation process.

 

AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTION

Each author’s contribution should be identified according to the CREDiT taxonomy, according to specific functions: conceptualization; data curation; formal analysis; funding acquisition; investigation; methodology; project administration; resources; software; supervision; validation; visualization; writing of the original draft; writing-review and editing.

 

NORMS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Papers must have, in that order:

• title with 12 words at the most, in Portuguese, or in the language in which it was written, and in English;
• abstract with 120 words at the most, in Portuguese or in the language in which the paper was written, and another one in English, with indication of 5 (five) keywords in Portuguese or in the language in which the paper was written, and in English;
• text keyboarded in Word, space 1.5, font Arial size 11; the text must have 20 to 25 pages at the most, including tables, graphs, figures, and bibliographic references; images must be sent in JPG format, with minimum resolution of 300 dpi and maximum width of 13 cm;
• subtitles, no more than 6 words;
• after the references, state each author's contribution to the work and answer the questions below:

1) Declaration of conflict of interest

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

 

2) Declaration of availability of research data

The PDF file must contain a statement indicating the availability of the research data. Please choose one of the following statements:

- The entire dataset supporting the results of this study has been made available at [repository name] and can be accessed at [URL or preferably the DOI]. (Please indicate any restrictions, where applicable).

- The entire dataset supporting the results of this study has been published in the article itself.

- The entire dataset supporting the results of this study has been published in the article and in the "Supplementary Materials" section.

- The dataset supporting the results of this study is not publicly available.

 

 

Bibliographic references following the instructions below rigorously:

Books

AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.) (year of publication). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

Example:

CASTELLS, M. (1983). A questão urbana. Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra.

 

Book chapters

CHAPTER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). "Title of the chapter". In: BOOK'S AUTHOR or EDITOR (ed.). Title of the book. City of publication, Publishing house.

Example:

BRANDÃO, M. D. de A. (1981). “O último dia da criação: mercado, propriedade e uso do solo em Salvador”. In: VALLADARES, L. do P. (ed.). Habitação em questão. Rio de Janeiro, Zahar.

 

Papers published in journals

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. Title of the journal. City, journal's volume, journal's issue, paper's initial and final page.

Example:

TOURAINE, A. (2006). Na fronteira dos movimentos sociais. Sociedade e Estado. Dossiê movimentos sociais. Brasília, v. 21, n.1, pp. 17-28.

 

Papers presented in scientific events

PAPER'S AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the paper. In: NAME OF CONGRESS, number, year, place where it was held. Title of the publication. City, Publishing house, initial and final pages.

Example:

SALGADO, M. A. (1996). Políticas sociais na perspectiva da sociedade civil: mecanismos de controle social, monitoramento e execução, parcerias e financiamento. In: SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL ENVELHECIMENTO POPULACIONAL: UMA AGENDA PARA O FINAL DO SÉCULO. Anais. Brasília, MPAS/SAS, pp. 193-207.

 

Theses, dissertations and monographs

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title. Doctoral dissertation or Master's thesis. City, Institution.

Example:

FUJIMOTO, N. (1994). A produção monopolista do espaço urbano e a desconcentração do terciário de gestão na cidade de São Paulo. O caso da avenida Engenheiro Luís Carlos Berrini. Master's thesis. São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo.

 

Internet texts

AUTHOR (year of publication). Title of the text. Available from. Date of access.

Example:

FERREIRA, J. S. W. (2005). A cidade para poucos: breve história da propriedade urbana no Brasil. Available from: http://www.usp.br/fau/depprojeto/labhab/index.html. Access on: Sep 8 2005.