Introduction
As a continental country and an emerging economy, Brazil has been investing to expand the logistics and social infrastructures. The logistics matrix is highly dependent of highways, because of the industrialization police adopted in the sixties. At the time, Brazil replaced its railways by highways. However, the maintenance, expansion and costs of highway transportation have been pushing the country to improve the logistics matrix, to seek for more cost efficient and sustainable transportation types.
In the past years, Brazil has been relying more on private investment to shift the construction and maintenance of from full government operation to concessions and public-private partnership (the “PPPâ€). By delegating the operation of public services to the private sector, the country is improving the logistics matrix, but there is much more to be done.
