ANÁLISE DOS FATORES QUE LEVARAM EMPRESAS A SE INSTALAREM NO TOCANTINS EM FUNÇÃO DA CONSTRUÇÃO DA FERROVIA NORTE-SUL

Abstract

The companies in the global market have redirected their locations, triggering a process that can be called economic decentralization. There locational factors that lead to strategic changes of location by such companies as: cost of transport, transfer, production costs, and storage costs, among others. The interest in uncovering the particular situation of the state of Tocantins, founded the design of the general purpose of this research is to examine the factors that influence companies in the process of location of choice to set up shop in the multimodal platform in Palmas / Porto Nacional -Tocantins, motivated by the construction of the North- South railway. This geographic area of Brazil, to be implementing a transport route connecting the north to the south of the country, has promoted an inductor venture of economic occupation of the Brazilian cerrado. The research methodology prioritizes qualitative approach to data analysis. Search up in this work, identify locational factors installation of these companies in an investigative line to allow contribute to regional development, in order to enable the formulation of public policies in locational decisions.