Análisis de la capacidad vial y nivel de servicio de las vías de ingreso de la ciudad de Machala.

Abstract

This project arises from the need to know the level of service and the relationship between volume and capacity of the access roads of the city of Machala, which for the execution of the project specific points were established in sectors where a large amount of traffic is observed. vehicles such as Av. 25 de Junio, Av. Ferroviaria, Av. Bolívar Madero Vargas, Av. Colon Tinoco, Vía Pajonal and Vía la Primavera which serve as routes into and out of the city. For which we set ourselves the objective of analyzing the levels of service and the relationship between the vehicle volume and the existing road capacity in the income of the city through the application of the calculation processes of the HCM 2000 manual and the verification of the data through Aimsun traffic simulation software. For the execution of the works, it will be necessary to carry out a count of pneumatic vehicles, which will help to obtain data on speeds and vehicle classification. In addition, in the processing of the data, maximum demand variation tables were prepared based on the capacity of the day with the greatest demand. vehicular flow with time intervals of 15 minutes to obtain the hourly volume of maximum demand and the hourly factor of maximum demand that will serve as the first step for the elaboration of the necessary data in the application of the abacus of the Speed-Flow Curve of the manual HCM 2000 used to achieve road service levels. The results obtained from the service levels are detailed below, The Vía Pajonal reached a service level A, which makes it a free-flow road, providing comfort to the user when traveling along this road, on the other hand, Avenida Bolívar Madero Vargas presents a level of service C, since in it there are affectations in the speeds and in the freedom of movement of the users, due to the fact that the drivers present inconveniences when carrying out lane change maneuvers, since on the road There is a large number of cargo vehicles that are directed to the income of the Port Authority of Puerto Bolívar.On the other hand, on the Avenida Colon Tinoco, Avenida Ferroviaria, Vía la Primavera, Avenida 25 de Junio, a level of service B was generated, which is considered to maintain a stable flow without a greater degree of affectation, all these criteria have been verified with the simulations carried out in Aimsun where there was a variation in Av. Ferroviaria due to the effects of the traffic light located at the site of Bus Station, which shows a reduction in speed at that point. The relationship between Volume-capacity of the aforementioned roads was also obtained, thus observing that the revenues with the highest use with respect to their capacity are Av. 25 de Junio, Av. Bolívar Madero Vargas and Vía la primavera, which obtained values of v/c equal to 0.23, which indicates that the vehicle volume continues to occupy 23% of the road's capacity, while the rest of the income remains at values below 20% of its capacity.