In the Transference area, CEM's main concern is the transmission of knowledge, methodologies and tools for public agencies and planning institutions, coming out with useful resources for public policies conceiving. Moreover, Transferece area is interested in disseminating metropolis-related databases.

Therefore, the various possible research approaches make use of qualitative and quantitative basis, according to the analytical nature of every project. Besides making use of available basis, there is also the production of new metropolis-related databases through application of surveys, document surveys, interviews and ethnografic research.

The basis are also converted into maps, all incorporated to a Geographic Information System (GIS) - a method that allows to visualise conexions between the Research area projects, articulating then to the activities of Transference and Diffusion.

In such case, the Transference area activities are oriented to the constitution of the São Paulo Metropolitan Area's GIS, so far featuring information about employment and unemployment, family, health, education, urban infrastructure, culture, religion, associativism, electoral behaviour, environment, inasmuch as the spacial and functional organisation of metropolitan activities.