Estudio de tráfico para mejorar la movilidad en la vía Panamericana E35 del cantón Cañar, provincia de Cañar

Abstract

The present title work entitled "Study of traffic to improve mobility on the Panamerican Highway E35 of Cañar canton, province of Cañar" aims to improve mobility on Panamerican Highway E35. The investigation starts from the study of the current situation, through the manual vehicle counts applied at strategic points of the road that were made on established days, for twelve continuous hours of the day, at 15-minute time intervals. Through field research, the necessary information was collected on traffic volumes, capacity and level of service, among others. Once the information has been analyzed, based on the procedures and recommendations established in the highway regulations in force in the country (Ecuadorian Highway Regulations NEVI - 12) established by the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, the average annual traffic (ADT) of the road with a value of 8309 vehicles / day, resulting in the hour with the highest vehicular traffic in the morning from 07:00 to 08:00 and in the afternoon from 17:00 to 18:00. The method described in the HCM 2000 (Highway Capacity Manual) was also used, which determined that the road capacity of the Panamerican E35 currently exceeds the service capacity that the road must have, and as a result the road has a level of service E , being the circulation normally unstable, because slight disturbances of the traffic can cause collapses that with the passing of time and the increase of the automotive fleet would reach to reach an extremely unstable flow. In this way, alternate routes were defined to help the circulation of vehicles that unnecessarily pass through the road, contributing to the improvement of viability and mobility in the canton of Cañar, mainly in the Panamerican Highway E35. The Intercultural GAD of the Cañar Canton is recommended to take into consideration the strategies proposed in the present work of titling for its later application by the Department of mobility, transit and coexistence.