Public Land Transportation Routes: Rights and Duties

Posted on Jan 11, 2025 in Business Administration and Innovation Management

Duties of the User

Article 110. Users have the duty to:

  • Pay fees for the services received by authorized persons or concessions to provide.
  • Inform the provider or the service provider and the competent authority of the shortcomings or damages that occurred on the premises and units of service.
  • Respect the rules of moral behavior and good manners, as well as care for and maintain proper facilities and service units.

Chapter V: Classification of Public Land Transportation Routes

Classification of Routes

Article 111. For the purposes of this Act, public land transport routes for passengers are classified as urban, suburban, and interurban. These, in turn, may be:

  1. Urban:
    • Municipal
    • Intercity
  2. Suburban:
    • Municipal
    • Intercity
    • Interstate
  3. Trunk:
    • National
    • State Authority
    • Municipal

Urban Pathways

Article 112. For the purposes of this Act, urban routes are those whose origin and destination are within the urban municipality polygon that is concerned, in accordance with the law governing the matter.

For the purposes of this Act, inter-urban routes are those that develop within a metropolitan polygon belonging to two (2) or more municipalities, and the route is within them, whose length, features, and areas of influence are set in the Regulation of this Act.

Suburban Routes

Article 113. For the purposes of this Act, suburban routes are those that originate within the urban polygon and extend out to people near or adjacent to the polygon. The length, characteristics, and areas of influence are established in the Rules of this Act.

Intercity Routes

Article 114. For the purposes of this Act, inter-urban routes are those that originate in a city or town center and have their destination in another, no matter who is in the jurisdiction of one or more municipalities or in one or more federal entities. Length, characteristics, and catchment areas are specified in the regulations of this Act.

Right of Way

Article 151. For the purposes of this Act, “right of way” means the strip of land measured in horizontal projection and perpendicular to the axis of the track, on both sides on an ongoing basis for the construction, development, maintenance, security, and inspection of structural or functional elements, the location of utility installation, and the deployment of ramps of incorporation or divestiture of road services and support for mass transportation.

The specifications relating to the determination of the minimum distances on public roads will be established in the regulations of this Law, according to the characteristics of each road.

National Roads

Article 152. The following are declared national roads:

  1. Roads that pass through a state and leave its boundaries.
  2. Roads that pass through the Metropolitan District of Caracas and out of its limits.
  3. Bridges that are part of the roads listed above but are within the limits of a state.
  4. Highways, including their dealers, bridges, tunnels, viaducts, and ramps, although they are within the limits of a state.
  5. Those included in international agreements concluded by the Republic, belonging to the strategic road network, border security, and national defense.
  6. Those that provide access to other modes of transport and national and international connections.
  7. Those that, while also serving local traffic or the States, serve national and international traffic.