What works in Curitiba
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Evidence snapshot for Curitiba
Curitiba's Bus Rapid Transit system, launched in 1974, carries roughly 2 million passenger trips daily and accounts for around 80% of the city's motorised trips, with the design since adapted in an estimated 160+ cities worldwide. IPPUC, the city's planning institute operating continuously since 1965, now runs a real-time data platform called Hipervisor to help anticipate traffic and flooding across city departments, and the city maintains 52 square metres of green space per resident. The evidence documents scale and institutional longevity but does not quantify specific outcomes from Hipervisor itself or measure learning or health impacts from these systems.
Drawn from: Curitiba's Bus Rapid Transit — the Original Model Exported to 160+ Cities Worldwide · IPPUC & Hipervisor — Curitiba's Six-Decade Urban Planning Data Institute · Redação Paraná — Gemini-Based AI Essay Correction Across Paraná's State School Network (Brazil) · Paraná ICMS Ecológico — Brazil's First Ecological Fiscal Transfer (1991) · Curitiba's Solo Criado — Transferable Development Rights for Forest & Green-Space Preservation · LRCO Paraná — A Cautionary Case of Facial-Recognition School Attendance Facing an LGPD Lawsuit · Escola Paraná Biometria — ANPD Suspends Facial-Recognition Attendance Tracking for 1 Million Students
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Governance, certification & transferability +36 pts 100 here · 64 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Innovation +21 pts 83 here · 62 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +18 pts 67 here · 48 average
Scalability & sustainability +11 pts 73 here · 62 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +9 pts 83 here · 74 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +9 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -11 pts 17 here · 28 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -15 pts 22 here · 37 average
Evidence of learning impact -15 pts 11 here · 26 average
Equity & inclusion -28 pts 22 here · 50 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -36 pts 11 here · 47 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Curitiba. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Curitiba's Bus Rapid Transit — the Original Model Exported to 160+ Cities Worldwide · 86
IPPUC & Hipervisor — Curitiba's Six-Decade Urban Planning Data Institute · 67
Redação Paraná — Gemini-Based AI Essay Correction Across Paraná's State School Network (Brazil) · 60
Paraná ICMS Ecológico — Brazil's First Ecological Fiscal Transfer (1991) · 60
Curitiba's Solo Criado — Transferable Development Rights for Forest & Green-Space Preservation · 33
LRCO Paraná — A Cautionary Case of Facial-Recognition School Attendance Facing an LGPD Lawsuit · 13
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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