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Cuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía
Print version ISSN 0121-215XOn-line version ISSN 2256-5442
Abstract
BUSTAMANTE, Diego; CORTES, Alejandro and MATURANA, Francisco. Daily Mobility in Times of Pandemic: Urban Opportunities and Obstacles in the Face of an Unfinished Transport System. The Case of the Commune of Renca, Santiago de Chile. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2023, vol.32, n.2, pp.345-365. Epub Mar 18, 2024. ISSN 0121-215X. https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v32n2.103846.
Neoliberal policies have impacted transportation and mobility. This paper analyzes the trends and structures resulting from the mobility of the Renca commune, a pericentric territory of Greater Santiago in the period between 2001 and 2021, through the analysis of the Origin Destination Surveys and an Origin Destination Survey of own interception applied during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aforementioned was developed to obtain the mobility tendencies that these individuals present with the other communes of Greater Santiago. The results express a motorization below the levels of other communes of Greater Santiago; the existence of a 'dependency' of some routes of the public transport system that use the urban highway network. Mobilities are mainly developed due to access to services and education, where these dynamics and destination spaces have not changed substantially despite the COVID-19 context in which the interception survey was applied. There is a contrast between the available concession infrastructure, the low access to automobiles, the spatial friction of the infrastructure, and the persistence of mobility patterns.
Highlights:
the mobilities of a commune belonging to Santiago take place in a context of high spatial friction, the profile of people's movements has not changed over time in terms of its income and, furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has not substantially modified practices and places of destiny.
Keywords : automobile; mobility; origin-destination; transport.