Propuesta de un plan de semaforización vial para la zona urbana del cantón Chimbo, provincia Bolívar

Abstract

This research aims to propose a traffic light plan for the urban area of the Chimbo canton, located in the Bolívar province, in order to provide to road users a safe, sustainable and sustainable mobility; for which, based on the historical-documentary information such as the mobility plan, 5 points of conflict were identified through vehicular capacity carried out in periods of 12 hours for 3 days; there are traffic light systems installed 5 years ago at the intersections: Tres de Marzo avenue and Los Ríos Street, Tres de Marzo avenue and Simón Bolívar Street, Sucre and Chimborazo streets, all of them set in the same cycles and phases and programmed in a standard way without any optimization since these were placed. When observing the intersections, the asymmetric shape of the study points is evidenced; those that, for being historically designed for carts, have narrow dimensions, adding to this, the canton is located in the border of the sierra and the cost regions and it is crossed by the Pan-American E-491 state highway which generates a varied-vehicular-traffic with different types of vehicles that access the road in constant daily flows. With the number of vehicles a diagnosis is made of each of the different cases; thus, it is defined the need for traffic light installation based on the specific standards of the TEN INEN 004: 2012 part 5, using the HMC 2000 methodology to define an adequate optimization in each of the traffic light cycles; furthermore, points of conflict are eliminated at the intersections based on policies necessary to guarantee road safety by improving urban mobility and preventing maneuvers that may lead to the accident of road users. It is recommended to implement this plan by the GAD of the Chimbo canton, which will improve the mobility in the Canton.