Mejoramiento de las señales de tránsito e implementación de semáforos coordinados en la intersección de las seis esquinas.

Abstract

As the cities are growing, the number of vehicles increases, so there will be a need to improve the road infrastructure in all its aspects, because if it is not done, it will generate a serious problem of traffic congestion, causing the services required by these cities do not arrive within the established deadlines, which will directly affect their development. In Ecuador there is a wide variety of road infrastructure among the main intersections that have the function of connecting different roads, in addition to allowing coordinated distribution of traffic to several points, but these have a great disadvantage because if it is not correctly designed and marked will generate points of conflict that must be mitigated so that your service is not affected. To avoid aggravating the problem of traffic congestion at the intersection of the Six Corners located between Sucre Streets, 03-15, 01-03 and Av. Jubones of the City of Passage, it has been necessary to carry out a technical analysis of the Main problem that generates congestion at this intersection, supported by field studies that allow to obtain more accurately the actual number of vehicles that pass through it With the information gathered from the technical visits made to the intersection of the study, we will have to seek advice with respect to the problem in bibliographical texts, scientific articles, among others, the most feasible alternatives that will help us find the best technical solution, with the objective to reduce or mitigate the negative effects that occur at this intersection in the hours of highest vehicular concentration. To find the best solution to the problem we rely on the rules and regulations established by the INEN and MTOP, in addition to the use of computer programs such as Synchro 8.0 and analytical programs that will be mainly the Excel tables required to perform the calculations of the vehicular capacity made in this intersection. With the use of all these tools we were able to find the main cause of traffic congestion at the intersection, resulting in a high volume of traffic at peak hours, in addition to the existing signage is not fully functional when controlling all the volume of vehicles that is generated, this is why it is necessary to find the best solution to this problem that directly affects the drivers that circulate through this intersection. Finally, it can be concluded that the best solution to be implemented at the intersection of the Six Corners, located in the canton of Pasaje, is to improve horizontal and vertical signage, in addition to implementing a system of coordinated traffic lights and improving road infrastructure through of the construction of two channeling channels, both level and vertical, as specified in this technical project. All the measures to be implemented at the intersection of the Six Corners, will be focused directly on regulating and improving the vehicular traffic during peak hours.