Propuesta de un plan tarifario por zonas para el transporte público intracantonal del cantón Salcedo, provincia de Cotopaxi

Abstract

The present investigation work is a Proposal of a tariff plan by zones for the intracantonal public transport of the Salcedo canton, Cotopaxi province, its objective is to regulate public transport rates on all routes covered by the operators of this canton, by evaluating the operational costs and necessary technical and legal parameters. For the investigation, it was necessary to know the current situation for which a direct observation was made through the route's files, and an interview was applied to a representative of a company, also based on the information provided by the two operators. that provide the service which was collected through observation cards, on the other hand, ascent and descent cards were used to estimate the number of real users that are transported, the operating cost methodology for passenger transport was adapted to calculate the tariff for each of the routes. Once the field investigation was concluded, it was determined that several routes do not comply with all the frequencies that have been granted, so the passengers have opted to use another means of transport, which leads to the loss of passengers and those routes are not profitable, also some routes are very distant and the rate is the same of much closer places.With the information obtained once the observation cards were applied and in relation to the income of each route, the fare template was determined in which, an increase in the rates ranging from ($ 0.05 - $ 0.19) dollars is indicated . In order to comply with the fare template, exhaustive control of illegal transport is recommended, since they carry out the same routes as buses at a lower rate but under inadequate conditions, putting the integrity of users at risk.