Informality of the urban transportation service in Santiago de Cali, Colombia: aspects of interest

Abstract

One of the main rights of a country is free mobilization throughout the national territory, said mobilization can be carried out by different means that allow the general population to go to their places of work and move to meet their daily basic needs. It is thus, then, that the State is the guarantor through its current regulations that regulates public and private passenger transport and that said constitutional right is fully complied with in the national territory. For this reason, this research aims to describe general aspects about the informality of the urban transport service in the city of Cali, whose situation is presented as a consequence of the lack of public passenger transport in the urban area. The nature of the study is descriptive, documentary; with bibliographic references such as: The Political Constitution of Colombia, The Guidelines of the Ministry of and Transport, Ortega y Melo (2017), Botero and Alegría (2017), García (2016), Gómez (2011), Moller (2003), and Other authors. The results reveal a) the lack of coverage in the public passenger transport service in the entire city of Cali, b) the growth of informal urban passenger transport in the city of Cali, c) informal urban passenger transport It is an alternative means of transport in places where this type of public passenger transport does not reach and that was provided by traditional transport that today is about to disappear.