REGIONAL COMMERCIAL AVIATION IN THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO: PROSPECTS REGARDING REGIC 2018

The state of Rio de Janeiro, despite of having a small territorial area in relation to the other Brazilian federative units, presents socio-spatial integration difficulties, deficient mobility and a strong socio-economic polarization in the Metropolitan Region of its capital. Among a series of factors that have influenced this picture, historically, there are since the evolution of its political-administrative division, to the choice for the road mobility policy and even its peculiar topography. The presence or absence of air routes in the state, that is today the main transport flow in the globalized world, are both cause and consequence of an uneven and combined socio-spatial development. In addition, the analytical study of regional commercial aviation is, at the moment, both a diagnosis and action field for public policies, specifically for our state. In this article, we conducted a qualitative and exploratory research on the regional commercial aviation development situation in the state of Rio de Janeiro and, therefore, we made a bibliographic research, consulted documentary sources such as state and federal laws, articles from newspapers and specialized magazines, and the data from the Population Arrangements and Urban Concentrations of Brazil research and the Cities Influence Regions (REGIC) research, both from IBGE