Estudio de factibilidad para la implementación de un sistema de transporte público intracantonal – urbano en el cantón guano, provincia de Chimborazo, periodo 2022.

Abstract

The objective of this degree project is to elaborate a feasibility study for the implementation of an intra-cantonal - urban public transport system in Guano Canton, Chimborazo Province, which is developed with two research modalities the qualitative one by collecting data through the application of the origin-destination survey to verify the hypothesis raised with this to know the main mode of transport and reason for travel; quantitative, based on existing theories such as the book "Molinero y Sánchez" which indicates the process, parameters, calculations, and formulae that must be carried out to design a public transport route; the primary type of research is field research because using the instrument ("survey"), the information is personally collected in Guano with a questionnaire of 10 closed questions addressed to the population of the urban area of the canton under study, which is used to find out about the supply of transport and the travel demand; as a result of this investigative work, it is obtained that the most used mode of transport is the public transport bus with a total of 158 inhabitants, which corresponds to 43% of the surveyed population, the same that is covered with 38 units that offer at present the existing cooperatives which possess in their operation contract the interprovincial scope, under this same type of investigation it was carried out cards of ascent and descent exclusively in Guano (GOE until the street Asunción and Cárdenas) allowing to obtain the factor of occupation that served for the new route; thus, the implementation of the proposed intra-cantonal transport route is recommended, which will be a closed circuit type, will have 2 journeys with a time of 26, an interval of 12, terminal time of 10, the cycle time of 36, all these parameters in minutes, the necessary fleet is: 3 units that will cover 70 frequencies in the day and will have profitability of 0.40 cents per kilometer traveled.