Metodología para la implementación del brt (bus rapid transit) que mejore el servicio de transporte público colectivo en ciudades de hasta 300000 habitantes.

Abstract

The present investigative work proposes to design a methodology for the implementation of the BRT (bus rapid transit) that allows improving the collective public transport service in cities of up to 300,000 inhabitants. According to expert criteria, the development of cities is closely related to public transport systems, they are the ones that facilitate the mobilization of people who need to use this service to move to different points, be they for work, studies, tourism, shopping among other activities. This research had to resort to origin and destination surveys, up/down passenger counting, vehicle capacity, observation sheets as well as an extensive bibliographic review of scientific articles that support the study, the service of the three collective public transport operators was analyzed of the city of Machala with respect to the supply and demand of passengers, travel desires, routes, organizational system of the service, costs, among others. The problem that was addressed is the feasibility of implementing a rapid transit bus to improve the mobility of people who use public transport, with the aim of establishing a methodological proposal through criteria for the evaluation of public transport service through of indicators such as land use 30%, the road network 20% and the estimation of the number of passengers 50%, which will represent 100%. Thus, the evaluation table will be described as follows: not recommended <40%, partially recommended >=40%; <75%, recommended >=75%; <100%, and if the percentage is >100%, another transport system will have to be evaluated. In such a way that according to the results of the study, the general evaluation is carried out through the product of the weights of each indicator with its respective valuation, which will indicate if the evaluation indicators are met to recommend implementing a BRT in the city.