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Brazil Transportation
Transportation
Before the 1930s, roads and railroads primarily linked production
centers to seaports, and there were some connections among major
urban centers. Rail links to the rest of South America were never
developed in any measure comparable with those among European countries,
or between the United States and Canada. Adequate international
road links with neighboring countries existed only with Brazil's
southern neighbors--Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. By the 1980s,
a start had been made on a national road system connecting the various
parts of the country. However, construction and maintenance costs
were high, slowing extensions to the system as well as the addition
of feeder roads. In a country as large as Brazil, with its difficult
terrain, a developed transportation system remains many years off.
Data as of April 1997
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