Metodología para la evaluación de vías urbanas que garanticen la fluidez y seguridad de circulación en ciudades de hasta 300000 habitantes.

Abstract

This research is born from the lack of methodologies that evaluate urban roads in aspects such as fluidity and traffic safety, in which criteria such as cross section, land use, mobility, government, living, sidewalk, traffic are qualified. The objective of this work was to study urban roads through an evaluation methodology that guarantees an analysis of the fluidity and safety of circulation in cities of up to 300,000 inhabitants. Where for the fulfillment of the objectives the following process is proceeded: The evaluation methods of urban roads were based bibliographically through scientific articles, the evaluation criteria that qualify characteristics that influence the fluidity and safety of a road were investigated and later they were designed an evaluation methodology. This evaluation methodology was implemented in the case study, which is Av. 25 de Junio in the city of Machala from its intersection with the Via Transversal Expresa del Terminal Terrestre to the collector road 10 de Agosto, which is a road artery. of great economic activity entering the city. As a result, a fluidity rating was obtained with the value of 0.65, which indicates that the fluidity of Av. 25 de Junio is in a good range according to our methodology, this is described as a free flow with slight restrictions on the circulation, in addition, in the security aspect, a value of 0.63 was obtained and we qualify it as good since most of the section's features are safe for users. With these results, improvements will be proposed in indicators such as cycling routes, parking lots, high traffic, speeds, safe bicycle use and infrastructure security in order to guarantee fluidity and safety on urban roads of up to 300,000 inhabitants.