Estudio comparativo entre urbanizaciones y condominios del área urbana y periurbana de la ciudad de Cuenca, respecto al modo de transporte utilizado

Abstract

Due to the unnecessary territorial expansion process that has taken place in the last decades in the city of Cuenca, it is of vital importance to study the preferences in the location of housing as well as the mobility of its habitants, because it makes it possible to have a clearer its of critical importance, since this will give a clearer understanding of the current condition of people and their mode of transportation. Therefore, this study focuses in the analysis of the transportation mode choice and the preferences presented in the housing typology of choice, in habitants from gated communities and condominiums located in urban and peri-urban areas in the city of Cuenca. As a starting point, horizontal condominiums, vertical condominiums and gated communities from each urban and rural parish. Later on, a selection of cases was made, to which the exploratory Q methodology was applied and followed by travel journals that included the transportation mode used. After the application of the Q methodology it was detected that there are three positions, the first oriented towards wide spaces and the proximity to nature, the second focused on effective mobility and the third oriented to safety. Regarding the transportation mode used, it was found that people who reside in the urban area have an average of travel time between ten and fifteen minutes, while those of the peri-urban, use between twenty and twenty-five minutes in their daily commuting