“Plan de seguridad vial para el cantón Baños, provincia de Tungurahua. período 2022-2026”

Abstract

This research aimed to develop the road safety plan in Baños canton, province of Tungurahua. 2022– 2026 period, which was based on reducing the rate of road accidents that occur daily in the Baños canton through awareness campaigns that allow users and pedestrians to comply with traffic regulations. The research was based on three fundamental factors: road infrastructure, human factors and signaling, as well as the "supports" of road safety, which are: Support 1, Road Safety Management—Institutional, Support 2: Improved Road Safety and Mobility Support 3: Safer Vehicles, Support 4: Safer Traffic Road Users, and Support 5: Responses after Traffic Accidents; in this way, we protect the users´ lives. Through the surveys conducted to users and pedestrians of the canton it was found that the main traffic accidents are caused by the recklessness of drivers and pedestrians, who do not respect the speed limits, and as in the canton there is no good horizontal and vertical signaling, this prevents drivers from respecting the speeds established by the current traffic regulations. As a result, we obtain that traffic accidents are undoubtedly a consequence of poor road signaling; for this reason, it is recommended to the Tungurahua´s transit Commonwealth to achieve a road safety plan that will reduce the level of road accidents and to comply with the initiatives with the Commonwealth of Transit of the Baños canton.