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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 25 travel and transportation
Best travel and transportation in Rio de Janeiro
The 10 most notable travel and transportation in Rio de Janeiro, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Transport Vila Isabel
R. Viana Drumond, 45
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.427, percentile 100 of 25
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2
MetrôRio - Estação Jardim de Alah
Avenida Borges de Medeiros
124 m from Jardim de Alah / Leblon, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.351, percentile 95.83 of 25
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3
Metrôrio-Catete
Rua do Catete
14 m from Catete, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.295, percentile 91.67 of 25
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4
MetrôRio - Estação Estácio
Avenida Oswaldo Aranha
27 m from Estácio, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.234, percentile 87.5 of 25
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5
MetrôRio - Estação São Conrado
Estr. da Gávea
71 m from São Conrado, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.216, percentile 83.33 of 25
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6
Santo Antonio Transportes e Expresso Garcia Ltda
Estr. Washington Luís, 89
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.198, percentile 79.17 of 25
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7
Comissária Ultramar de Despachos Internacionais
R. Fonseca Teles, 129
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.171, percentile 75 of 25
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MetrôRio - Estação São Cristóvão
Avenida Oswaldo Aranha
26 m from São Cristóvão, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.157, percentile 70.83 of 25
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9
Companhia de Navegação Norsul
Avenida Augusto Severo, 8 an, 6
418 m from Cinelândia, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.098, percentile 66.67 of 25
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10
Tbg Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto Bolívia Brasil S.A.
Praia do Flamengo, 66
390 m from Largo do Machado, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.043, percentile 62.5 of 25
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).