Rede de transporte aéreo regional regular e integração territorial no Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

State of Rio Grande do Sul, the public policies related to this segment and its contribution in the process of territorial integration in the Gaucho territory. Methodologically, this work, throughout a field research with semi-structured interviews and bibliographical review, proposes to examine the main public policies in relation to the regional regular aviation and to relate the main constitutive elements of the regional air transportation net - airports, lines, routes, passengers and goods outflows - which collaborate to the economical dynamics in Rio Grande do Sul. In the theoretical-methodological referential we talk to thinkers about the interrelated nets with space notion, of public policies, of territory, without thinking on the conceptualization of demand and capital. It is divided in three periods, being that in the first, it is approached the territorial disintegration, from 1927 to 1963; the second, from 1964 to 1988, the territorial centralized integration is highlighted; and in the third and last, from 1989 to 2010, it is emphasized the competitive integration of economy and territory. In each period, it is wanted to gather events and variables related to the Brazil's economical development, to the public transportation politics, to the technological development of aviation and to the process of national integration. The intention of the periodization consists in understanding the main connections between the public policies of transportation, the development of the technical net in the regional air transport and the dynamics of territorial integration of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. It can be concluded that, in the evolution of the regional air net there were periods in order to reach a 'disarticulated integration' among the phases of interior integration of the territory and of the territory to the world market. There was also an 'ideal integration', what means, connections from downtown to the outskirts, from the outskirts to the outskirts without crossing downtown, and from the outskirts to downtown, what allowed the integration in the southern territory.