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13-599: The ABC Region is an industrial region in Greater São Paulo , Brazil . The name refers to three smaller cities south of São Paulo, capital of the Brazilian state of the same name . Originally, these three cities were Santo A ndré , São B ernardo do Campo , and São C aetano do Sul . Later, the region became known as the ABCD , with the addition of the city of D iadema , and sometimes even as ABCDMRR , with

26-603: A day. On 7 December 2018, CPTM set a weekday ridership record with 3,221,035 trips. Most of railways now run by the CPTM were built between 1860 and 1957 by the São Paulo Railway (the lines 7 and 10), Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana (the lines 8 and 9) and Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil (lines 11 and 12). These railways were eventually incorporated into the state-owned Rede Ferroviária Federal (RFFSA) in 1957 and Ferrovia Paulista S.A. (FEPASA) 1971. Finally, in 1992

39-976: Is 75% of the population of the entire state of São Paulo , and consists of the contiguous entities: Being the most industrialized region of the country as well as the most populated, the transportation plays an important role. The main highways (rodovias) of the area are: The São Paulo Metro and the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos provide rail-based transit within the metropolitan area. 23°32′52″S 46°38′09″W  /  23.54778°S 46.63583°W  / -23.54778; -46.63583 Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos [REDACTED] Line 7 • [REDACTED] Line 10 • [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Line 11 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Line 12 • [REDACTED] Line 13 • [REDACTED] Airport Express The Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos ( CPTM ) (English: São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company )

52-494: Is a rapid transit and commuter rail company owned by the São Paulo State Department for Metropolitan Transports. It was created on 28 May 1992, from several railroads that already existed in Greater São Paulo , Brazil . Part of the Greater São Paulo rail system , the CPTM has 57 stations in five lines, with a total length of 199 kilometres (124 mi). The system carries about 2 million passengers

65-616: The ABC Region . The ABC Region (from Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul) in the south of Grande São Paulo is an important location for industrial corporations, such as Volkswagen and Ford . It represents the "core" cities of the greater region. The extended metropolitan area of São Paulo ( Complexo Metropolitano Estendido de São Paulo ) is an agglomeration of five contiguous metropolitan areas that have grown into one another and three microregions, dominated by São Paulo. It has more than 33 million inhabitants, which

78-603: The Workers' Party (PT) was formed, whose activities and popularity launched Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , or simply Lula, to the presidency of Brazil in 2002. In 2006, the Federal University of ABC was established as a research and higher learning institution, with two campi and centers for Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences (CECS), for Mathematics, Computing and Cognition (CMCC) and for Natural and Human Sciences (CCNH). Although they do not contribute to

91-528: The Line E in the year 2000, in the stretch known as "East Express", serving the east end of São Paulo City and running parallel to the Line 3 - Red. The proposed Trens Intercidades regional railway project is considering using the Line 7 tracks for providing service to neighboring cities of Jundiaí , Campinas and Americana . In 2018, the CPTM opened the Line 13 , the first line completely built and operated by

104-468: The addition of M auá , R ibeirão Pires , and R io Grande da Serra . The ABC region is widely known in Brazil and abroad because of the great number of international companies, particularly car manufacturers, in its area. National media and organizations consider ABC a powerful industrial pole and birthplace of the labor union movement that fought against dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. In this region

117-841: The company. This line connects the Line 12 to the São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport , with a special Express service connecting it to the central Luz station, and another service connecting it to the Brás station, both only operating on a specific schedule. The CPTM operates five lines in the Greater São Paulo area, identified by number and color. Most of these lines run on existing surface tracks that continue out of Greater São Paulo as MRS Logística intercity freight lines and share right of way with freight trains. The more lightly used outer sections of several lines have level crossings . Service starts every day at 4 AM, when trains depart from each terminus, until

130-492: The original acronym, Mauá , Ribeirão Pires , Rio Grande da Serra (as they were an extension of the municipality of Santo André, before the division) and Diadema are also part of the region. The Billings Reservoir bathes 6 of the 7 municipalities in the region, except São Caetano do Sul. The 7 municipalities together make up an area of 825 km², and have a population of over 2.5 million inhabitants ( IBGE estimate for 2007 ). (2010) This geographical article relating to

143-454: The state capital , São Paulo . The RMSP of São Paulo is known as a financial and economic centre of Brazil, with a total population of 20,743,587 inhabitants (2022 census ). The largest municipalities are São Paulo , with a population of 11,451,245, Guarulhos with a population of 1,291,784 people, plus several municipalities with more than 500,000 inhabitants, such as São Bernardo do Campo (810,729 inh.) and Santo André (748,919 inh.) in

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156-582: The state of São Paulo is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Greater S%C3%A3o Paulo Greater São Paulo ( Portuguese : Grande São Paulo ) is a nonspecific term for one of the multiple definitions of the large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil . A legally defined specific term, Região Metropolitana de São Paulo (RMSP), one definition for Metropolitan São Paulo, consists of 39 municipalities, including

169-521: The urban sections of RFFSA and FEPASA merged, forming the CPTM. Between the end of the 1990s and the early 2000s, the CPTM began the conversion of some metropolitan lines to provide a service similar to rapid transit and better integrate with the São Paulo Metro . Most of the stations where either rebuilt or modernized and new trains were purchased allowing the headway of lines to be as low as four minutes in some lines. This experience started in

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