fuel-efficient cars and personal technology are ever more present across districts and residents, as well as alternative means of transportation like electric bikes, which are everyday safer to ride due to the increasing awareness of car and bus drivers to the traffic laws regarding cyclists.

the city's subway system, that for many years did not increase in size, is now expanding at a rapid pace and increasing its efficiency.

operations such as 'choque de ordem', rio sem fumo, lei seca, and the upp have rapidly changed rio into a city more on par with other developed metropolis around the world - Because of the increased public safety brought by socioeconomic changes, one immediate result was the increased property values and development of many districts.