Efectos de la distribución del servicio de educación en el territorio. Las unidades educativas del milenio en el cantón Cuenca

Abstract

The objective of the research is to determine the effects caused by the construction of the Millennium Educational Units on the dynamics of mobility and accessibility of the population and land uses. For this purpose, the research was carried out through case studies with a quantitative and qualitative methodology. To determine the effects on mobility, a semistructured survey was applied to users. On the other hand, changes in land use were analyzed with the support of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) through a supervised classification to determine changes in land cover and a property survey to determine changes in urban land use. Among the main mobility results, it was observed that, although the Ministry of Education (MINEDU) established a service coverage area, users come from different sectors within and outside the planned area. Regarding accessibility, taking as a reference the use of public transportation (bus), more than 78% of the users in the two schools use this mode of transportation, despite this, nearly 50% of the communities where the students come from do not have coverage of this service. Finally, changes in land use due to vegetation cover do not exceed 20% in any of the cases and urban land use does not show representative changes