La saturación vehicular no permite que una ciudad en desarrollo crezca de manera considerable a lo que exige la demanda, sino más bien retrasa la capacidad de la misma, ocasionando una serie de inconvenientes a la ciudadanía.

Abstract

Traffic saturation does not allow a developing city to grow considerably as required by demand, but rather delays its capacity, causing a series of inconveniences to citizens. The problem identified is the vehicular congestion that occurs at the intersection of Avenue 25 de Junio and 23 de Abril street in the Machala city, mainly that produced on Av 25 de Junio when the vehicles that circulate turn left towards the 23 de Abril race, due to the poor timing of the traffic lights, which does not meet optimal times to lighten the traffic flow that exists at different times of the day. The methodology that was applied to optimize times is the Webster and also the synchronization of data in the Synchro 8 software which allows a feasible solution for the decongestion caused, for this we need to collect data through a vehicular and pedestrian capacity of the sector. As a result, it is obtained that the optimal cycle is 135 seconds divided as follows: in Avenida 25 de Junio 93 seconds in green, 3 seconds in yellow and 39 seconds in red, while in Carrera 23 de Abril, 33 green sec, yellow 3 sec and red 97 sec, with the optimization of these times, a decongestion of traffic would be obtained, mainly caused by Av 25 de Junio which has a higher demand for vehicles.