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48 » PEOPLE&BUSINESS November 2018 | AutoData Disclousure/CCR MOLINA Nathalia Molina is Meritor’s new director of Human Resources for South America. Four years in the company, promoted: former manager of the area. SOUZA Rafael Borges de Souza, Meritor’s new purchasing director. Ten years in the company, always in the area: until then, senior purchasing manager. Disclousure/Meritor Disclousure/Meritor REIS Pedro Reis is the new CEO of ALD Automotive Brazil, a specialist in management and fleet outsourcing. Born in Portugal, 16 years in the company. Formerly, CFO for Brazil and Latin America. Disclousure/ALD R$ 6,7 MILLION FOR RECHARGING BNDES, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development of Brazil, has approved R$ 3.4 million and R$ 3.3 million for two electric vehicle recharge network projects in Brazil. The funds will come from BNDES Funtec, a non- returnable fund directed to applied research projects, technological development and innovation. The initiatives were selected in a public call in 2016 and will be developed by two units of Embrapii, the Brazilian Agency for Research and Industrial Innovation: CPqD Foundation (Center for Research and Development in Telecommunications) and the CERTI Foundation (Centers of Reference in Technologies). TCM FROM SÃO PAULO AUTHORIZES IT The Court of Auditors of São Paulo authorized the city hall to perform the bid for the new bus transportation system in the capital, with recommendations for adjustments. The bidding, originally scheduled for 2013, has been suspended several times and should represent up to 14 thousand new buses to the city in the coming years. THE BEST IS FORTY YEARS OLD Rodovia dos Bandeirantes (SP-348) celebrated its 40th anniversary on October 28. As some kind of gift it was considered the best highway in Brazil for the seventh consecutive year according to research by the National Confederation of Transport (CNT). D. Pedro I and SP-340 got the second place, which form the Campinas-Jacareí highway, followed by SP-225, which connects Bauru and Itirapina. THE BEST IS FORTY YEARS OLD 2 Bandeirantes (built in 26 months) was the first Brazilian highway conceived within the motorway concept. Originally named Via Norte, it was renamed five months before its inauguration by order of the governor of São Paulo at that time. There are 160 kilometers in total connecting São Paulo to Via Anhanguera at the surroundings of Cordeirópolis, 500 thousand trips a day. Managed by CCR AutoBAn since 1998.