Urban corridor management
Introduction
The Collective Public Passenger Transport System of Urban Corridors (known simply as Transbús), and the Metropolitan Corridors (called Transmetropolitano) are the bus services that are part of the public transportation operating in the city of Villahermosa "Villahermosa (Tabasco)"), Tabasco and its metropolitan area.
History
Background
With the arrival of the first automobile to Tabasco in 1916, the first passenger buses began to circulate in Villahermosa.[1].
In 1934, Governor Lic. Tomás Garrido Canabal founded the Villahermosa Transportation Cooperative, SCL. This would be the first major attempt to consolidate public transportation in Villahermosa, managing to be maintained until the administration of Governor Mario Trujillo García, in the mid-1970s.
Faced with this problem, the government of Eng. Leandro Rovirosa Wade acquired new units to form the People's Bus system that would offer free service to the population in which license plates for collective taxis were authorized. The measure was insufficient, and by 1978 the situation of public transport was disastrous.[2].
In March 1979, with 26 partners, the company Transportes Urbanos del Centro S.A. began operations. de C.V., popularly known as TUCSA, a company that managed to improve service in the city. However, the crisis that the country would enter in 1981 once again led to the project being ruined.
In 1983, the government of Enrique González Pedrero proposed creating a new transportation system, from which most of the routes and terminals that currently exist are derived: the Tabasco Autotransport and Link System, better known as SAETA. This substantially improved the quality of public transport service in the city, but poor administration led to its final liquidation in March 1992[3].
With the bankruptcy of SAETA, new transport unions emerged, such as ARVIT, Setratab, UTPCAM, UTUCC and Vicosertra, which took charge of the routes left by the previous system, gradually moving from minibuses to combi and van type vehicles.
The above was added to the continuous growth of the city of Villahermosa to make vehicular traffic increasingly complicated.