Mobilités quotidiennes et inégalités socio-territoriales à Bogotá, Santiago du Chili et São Paulo

The role of daily mobility as a socio-spatial inequalities factor is a key issue in Latin America and is partly attributable to urbanisation patterns on this continent: a rather advanced urban transition, low density and wide spread millionaire metropolises, deep social inequalities, high socio-residential segregation, and an inequitable work distribution within the city. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relation between daily trips to work and socio-spatial inequalities in three contrasted metropolises (Bogotá, Santiago, São Paulo). We demonstrate that beyond the social hierarchy effect, the territorial effect is determining on people’s daily mobility conditions.