Diseño del plan de jerarquización vial y su incidencia en el nivel del servicio de la infraestructura vial del área urbana y rural del cantón Riobamba, provincia de Chimborazo

Abstract

The current research work titled “Plan of road hierarchy and its incidence on the service level of vial infrastructure of urban and rural area from Riobamba Canton, province of Chimborazo”, has like objective to improve the mobility through an appropriate vial planning and at the same time to reduce the road accidents due to ignore the roads hierarchy. For the investigation was necessary to know the current situation of the roads using a direct observation and analysis of the technical, geometrical characteristics and about the functionality of urban streets and the main entrance roads to the rural parishes, characteristics based on “Ley de Caminos del Ecuador”. A vehicle capacity was indispensable, the same was done during 12 hours, obtaining the peak time and the traffic average diary yearly (TPDA) of each one of 70 roads analysed. Concluded the field research it is determined that in Riobamba city there is not a roads hierarchy based on ¨Ley de Caminos¨ and the municipal ordinance 007-2012 from Concejo Municipal de Riobamba. Subsequent the information collecting of technical and geometrical characteristics of roads, the data were introduced in Synchro Software, obtaining the level of service from streets. It is recommended to the competent institutions to carry out the roads hierarchy plan by an ordinances reformulation based on parameters and guidelines that contain the “Ley de Caminos del Ecuador” and established in geometrical and technical characteristics from the roads that belong to the city.