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system of
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is the largest statewide road transportation system in
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, with 34,650 km. It consists of a hugely interconnected network of municipal (11,600 km), state (22,000 km) and federal (1,050 km) roads. More than 90% of the population is within 5 km of a paved road. It has also the largest number of two-, four- and six-lane
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. According to the National Confederation of Transports, it is the best highway grid in the country, with 59.4% classified as excellent. The term used in
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for ''highway'' is ''rodovia'', and for ''road'' is ''estrada''.


Management systems

The responsibility for building, maintaining, expanding, managing and exploiting the state roads fall into the following categories: * DERSA Desenvolvimento Rodoviário S.A. A state-owned company, responsible for some state-built roads and highways, such as Rodovias Dom Pedro I, Carvalho Pinto, Ayrton Senna, etc. (see below for the names and specific information about highways); * DER Departamento de Estradas de Rodagem. A state department belonging to the State Secretary of Transportation; * Ministry of Transportation, responsible for the federal highways and roads crossing the state, such as Rodovias Presidente Dutra, Régis Bittencourt, Fernão Dias, etc.; * Municipalities, responsible for vicinal roads and roads within counties. * State concessions to private companies. By the law nº 9.361, of July 5, 1996, the state government implemented a comprehensive program of
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and public concession of highway infrastructure management and economic exploitation (Programa Estadual de Desestatização - State Program of Desestatization), whereby most of the highways under the tutelage and built by the state began to be managed by private companies. In order to implement the Program, the highway grid was subdivided into 12 sections, with a total of 3,500 km, interconnecting 198 counties with a population of approximately 20 million inhabitants (54% of the state's population). The following 12 companies were contracted under a public bidding system: * AutoBAn, (owned by CCR S.A.) * Autovias, (EixoSP, owned by
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) * Centrovias, (EixoSP, owned by (
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) * Colinas * Ecovias * Intervias * Renovias * SPVias, (owned by CCR S.A.) * Tebe, ( TEBE S.A.) * Triângulo do Sol * Viaoeste Until August 2005, these companies had invested R$ 6 billion (approximately US$ 2,5 billion) and generated a revenue of R$ 2 billion for the state. The concessions led also to the duplication (double laning) of more than 480 km and the construction of 110 new roads. All conceded highways are equipped with fixed emergency phones every 1 km, horizontal and vertical signalling equipment,
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s, and round-the-clock, free-of-charge mechanical and emergency relief vehicles. which make São Paulo highways the most sophisticated and with the highest safety and service standards of Latin America. All conceded roads, including those managed by DERSA, are
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s, in order to pay for the services and investments. Roads managed by the state (DER) are generally not tolled. Toll collection is made in toll gates spaced along the road. Sometimes tolling occur only in one direction of the road, in other cases, in both directions. Toll pricing is set by the State Secretary of Transportation and vary from US$ 1 to US$ 4. The entire São Paulo system of highways (16 in the total) use a unified non-stop
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named "Sem Parar", based on
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tags glued to the vehicle windshield, which comprises about 34% of the traffic through these roads. The system has 560,000 of these tags installed and generates 11 million of electronic transactions and revenues of ca. R$ 120 million (approximately US$ 52 million) per month.


Naming and numbering system

Within São Paulo, numbering of highways works as follows, starting with letters SP: *even numbers - indicates that the highway is radial, that is, connects the state capital to the interior. The number of the highway gives the clockwise angle that it makes with an imaginary line stemming from the state capital and extending northward. Thus
SP-270 Rodovia Raposo Tavares (official designation SP-270) is the longest highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with 654 km. It was opened in 1937. The highway starts in the city of São Paulo and continues westward, serving the main citi ...
(Rodovia Raposo Tavares) starts in São Paulo and extends westward (thus a 270-degree clockwise angle with the imaginary north-extending line). Example: Rodovia Anhangüera, SP-330. *odd numbers - indicates that the highway connects two or more places away from the capital. The number gives the distance, in km, between the capital and the nearest point of the highway. Thus,
SP-425 Rodovia Assis Chateubriand (officially designated SP-425) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Its name honours the Brazilian journalist and press tycoon Assis Chateaubriand. The highway, which is single-lane in most of its length, cr ...
(Rodovia Assis Chateubriand) connects two cities away from the capital, and its nearest point is distant 425 km from the state capital. It is customary in Brazil, and particularly in São Paulo, to give also official names to the highways and roads, usually to pay homage to some politician, significant personality, national hero, etc., or to some symbolic or collective concept.


Infrastructure

The main two-lane highways built and maintained by the state of São Paulo are: * SP-340:
Rodovia Adhemar de Barros Rodovia Adhemar de Barros (official designation SP-340) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is 170 km long. The highway follows very closely in a south–north direction, departing from the city of Campinas, then passing by ...
* SP-150:
Rodovia Anchieta The Rodovia Anchieta (Anchieta Highway, official designation SP-150) is a highway connection between São Paulo and the Atlantic coast, the cities of Cubatão and Santos, in Brazil. In the plateau, the highway serves several cities of Greater S ...
* SP-330:
Rodovia Anhanguera The Rodovia Anhanguera (official designation SP-330) (In English: Anhanguera Highway) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is one of the country's busiest transportation corridors. A 2005 survey conducted amongst Brazilian truck d ...
* SP-322:
Rodovia Attilio Balbo The Brazilian Highway System ( Portuguese: ''Sistema Nacional de Rodovias'') is a network of trunk roads administered by the Ministry of Transport of Brazil. It is constructed, managed and maintained by the National Department of Transport Infrast ...
* SP-070:
Rodovia Ayrton Senna Rodovia Ayrton Senna da Silva (officially designated SP-070 and formerly named Rodovia dos Trabalhadores) (Workers' Highway), is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The highway begins in the Eastern region of city of São Paulo and en ...
* SP-348:
Rodovia dos Bandeirantes The Rodovia Bandeirantes (official designation SP-348) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Once the traffic capacity of the Anhangüera Highway was exceeded in the 1960s, the state government decided to build another highway, with ...
* SP-326: Rodovia Brigadeiro Faria Lima * SP-070:
Rodovia Carvalho Pinto The Rodovia Governador Carvalho Pinto (officially designated SP-070) is a highway in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil. It is a continuation of the Rodovia Ayrton Senna (also SP-070), near the city of Guararema and ends by mer ...
* SP-280:
Rodovia Castelo Branco The Rodovia Presidente Castelo Branco (SP-280) is a tollway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It was first opened on Saturday, 10 November 1968, by, then, the Governor of the state of São Paulo, Abreu Sodré. The tollway name was given in me ...
* SP-320:
Rodovia Euclides da Cunha Rodovia Euclides da Cunha (official denomination SP-320) is a state highway in the state of São Paulo. The highway is named after Brazilian writer Euclides da Cunha. The highway begins in Mirassol, on the SP-310, and ends in the city of Rub ...
* SP-065:
Rodovia Dom Pedro I The Rodovia Dom Pedro I (official designation SP-065) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. One of the most modern and scenic highways in the country, it interconnects the Anhangüera and the Presidente Dutra highways, serving the m ...
* SP-160: Rodovia dos Imigrantes * SP-332:
Rodovia Professor Zeferino Vaz Rodovia Professor Zeferino Vaz (official designation SP-332, also known as Rodovia Campinas-Paulínia or Tapetão) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Until 2010, this highway was called Rodovia General Milton Tavares de Souza, after ...
* SP-306: Rodovia Luiz de Queiroz * SP-300:
Rodovia Marechal Cândido Rondon Rodovia Marechal Cândido Rondon (officially designated SP-300) is a highway in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil. It is one of the most recent highways of the state, and connects several cities, running in the North-Northwest d ...
* SP-270:
Rodovia Raposo Tavares Rodovia Raposo Tavares (official designation SP-270) is the longest highway in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil, with 654 km. It was opened in 1937. The highway starts in the city of São Paulo and continues westward, s ...
* SP-075:
Rodovia Santos Dumont Rodovia Santos Dumont (officially designated SP-075) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It runs in a north–south direction and interconnects the cities of Campinas, Indaiatuba, Salto, Itu and Sorocaba, crossing with two other ...
* SP-310:
Rodovia Washington Luís Rodovia Washington Luís (official designation SP-310) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It runs in the North-Northwest direction, departing as a branch from the Anhangüera Highway near the city of Limeira. It also crosses with ...
Other important double- or single-lane roads in the state are: * SP-099:
Rodovia dos Tamoios The Rodovia dos Tamoios (official designation SP-099) is a highway in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The Rodovia dos Tamoios is a dual carriageway running from the city of São José dos Campos, located in the Paraíba River valley in th ...
* SP-123: Rodovia Floriano Rodrigues Pinheiro * SP-425:
Rodovia Assis Chateaubriand Rodovia Assis Chateubriand (officially designated SP-425) is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Its name honours the Brazilian journalist and press tycoon Assis Chateaubriand. The highway, which is single-lane in most of its length, c ...
* SP-101:
Rodovia Jornalista Francisco Aguirre Proença Rodovia Jornalista Francisco Aguirre Proença (SP-101) is a state highway in the State of São Paulo which connects the cities of Campinas, Hortolândia, Monte Mor, Elias Fausto and Capivari. Its first 25 kilometers are double-laned, the rest ...
* SP-333 (
Assis Assis is a city and a municipality in the southwestern part of the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 101,409 (2022 est.) in an area of 460.61 km. The town was founded on July 5, 1905, and became a municipality in 1917, when it ...
- State of Paraná): Rodovia Miguel Jubran Three metropolitan
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s, or ring systems interconnect several highways, encircling the urban core of the cities of São Paulo, Campinas and Ribeirão Preto: *
Rodoanel Mário Covas Rodoanel Mário Covas (official designation SP-021) is the planned (and partially built) beltway of the Greater São Paulo, Brazil. Upon its completion, it will have a length of , with a radius of approximately from the geographical center of ...
(SP-21): around the city of São Paulo, currently interconnects the Anhangüera, Bandeirantes, Castelo Branco, Raposo Tavares, Régis Bittencourt, Imigrantes, Anchieta, Presidente Dutra and Ayrton Senna highways. Upon its completion, estimated for 2017, it will also interconnect the Fernão Dias highway. *
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(SP-83): around the city of
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, it interconnects the Bandeirantes and Dom Pedro I highways, also intersecting with Via Anhangüera. * Anel Viário de Ribeirão Preto, around the city of
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There are also five federal highways which partially cross the state territory, namely: *
Rodovia Presidente Dutra The Rodovia Presidente Dutra, (BR-116 – or SP-060 in the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo), colloquially known as Via Dutra is a federal highway which runs through the eastern part of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo and ...
, to
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Rodovia Fernão Dias The Rodovia Fernão Dias (official designation BR-381 or SP-010 in the state of São Paulo) is a federal highway which runs in the Brazilian states of São Paulo and southern region of Minas Gerais. In Atibaia, the Fernão Dias highway intersec ...
, to
Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte is the List of largest cities in Brazil, sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. It is the List of cities in Sout ...
, state of
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Rodovia Régis Bittencourt The Rodovia Régis Bittencourt is a section of the BR-116 that connects the cities of Taboão da Serra and Curitiba, Paraná. It is considered one of the most dangerous highways of Brazil, due to the high number of accidents. It also leads the ...
, to
Curitiba Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná (state), Paraná in Southern Brazil. The city's population was 1,773,718 , making it the List of cities in Brazil by population, eighth most populous city in Brazil and the larg ...
, state of
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Rodovia Rio-Santos The Brazilian Highway System ( Portuguese: ''Sistema Nacional de Rodovias'') is a network of trunk roads administered by the Ministry of Transport of Brazil. It is constructed, managed and maintained by the National Department of Transport Infrast ...
, between the cities of Santos and
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Rodovia Transbrasiliana BR-153 is a major federal highway of Brazil, officially named the Transbrasiliana Highway. It also serves as part of the Belém–Brasília Highway in the stretch located between the cities of Wanderlândia, in the state of Tocantins, and An ...
(BR-153) crossing from the state of
Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 Brazilian census, 2022 census. Located in ...
to
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See also

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Brazilian Highway System The Brazilian Highway System ( Portuguese: ''Sistema Nacional de Rodovias'') is a network of trunk roads administered by the Ministry of Transport of Brazil. It is constructed, managed and maintained by the National Department of Transport Infras ...


External links


Secretary of Transportation of the State Government of São Paulo

DERSA Desenvolvimento Rodoviário SA
, a state company for the development and maintenance of São Paulo's highways.
DER - Highways State Department

Transportation Agency of São Paulo - List of Highway Concessionaires

Real time video cameras in São Paulo highways
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Triângulo do Sol
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ViaOeste
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