THE NEW RAILWAY ROAD: A PERSPECTIVE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN PARANÁ-BRAZIL

Abstract

The objective of this work was to analyze the economic impacts of the New Route of the Ferroeste and its associations between the municipalities of the West of the state of Paraná, through the analysis of spatial data of agricultural production and economic indicators from the years 2018 to 2020. The method used was Moran's global and local spatial autocorrelation index technique, Kernel density estimator with a distance of 150 km. For cluster analysis, the hierarchical full linkage method was used. There were similar regions of agricultural production. Significant spatial autocorrelation was observed for milk production, swine production, cattle production, corn and soybean productions. For the distance of 150 km, the result showed that its influence could benefit the municipalities of the West, favoring the generation of employment and income. By the cluster analysis, it was found that the central group presents the Cascavel-Paraná transshipment municipality that is in operation and the municipalities with similar characteristics to the same and mostly grouped municipalities with high potential of gross value of agricultural production and agricultural production.