Monitoreo y evaluación de la gestión de la seguridad vial en la ciudad de Guaranda

Abstract

In the present work of titration the Monitoring and Evaluation of the Management of the Road Safety in the City of Guaranda, province of Bolivar was realized, with the purpose of proposing strategies of improvement for each one of the 5 pillars proposed in the National Plan by Road safety in Ecuador which are: institutional, infrastructure safer, Safer vehicles, safer users and response after traffic accidents and thus protect the lives of people. In order to propose strategies, it was necessary to know the current situation of the Road Safety management of the city, for which several research instruments were used, such as: investigation file, observation sheet, surveys aimed at the users of the city and interviews aimed at the actors involvend in responding after traffic accidents, each of them with parameters related to Road Safety. Through field research, it was concluded that there is no complete integration between the public instutions in charge of the control and management of road safety, in addition to evidence of the poor state of the road infrastructure, together with signage. Therefore, medium and short term strategies were proposed, according to the need in each pillar, of which we can note for relevance the “Coordination and participation of governmental and non-governmental institutions and social actors to create precedents in the management of traffic and road safety”. The Municipal Autonomous Decentralized Government of the canton of Guaranda is recommended to take into consideration the strategies proposed in the present work of titling for its later application by the Municipal Unit of Transportation, Transit and Road Safety.