Brazil

Municipal Councils of Transport

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 1961 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Governos Municipais
Type of organization in charge: government
Level: local

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: partial
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: unknown
Output: unknown
Policy Outcome: unknown

The Municipal Councils of Transport are autonomous bodies that should assist the public sector by ensuring access to information and citizen participation in planning, operating and supervising the Public Transport System. These councils generally: cooperate with the municipality in studying and finding solutions for problems concerning urban passenger transport, and proposing measures for its improvement; propose guidelines for the creation, modification and termination of lines and itineraries; propose guidelines for the modification of timetables and the quantity of trips; propose measures to improve the quality of services provided by operators and their agents; express opinions and propose changes on the methodology for the calculation of fees and monitor its implementation; suggest amendments to the Regulations of Urban Transport Services; identify irregularities and complaints from users of the system, and transmit the report to the corresponding authorities; and propose adjustments to fees, therefore ensuring that they are compatible with the users? purchasing power, so as to not penalize them.

Institutional design

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Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?

Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?

Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?

Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?

Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?

Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?

Formalization: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: regular
Mode of selection of participants: restricted
Type of participants: civil society
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Policy Evaluation