Estudio a fase pre preliminar de la vía Cuenca-Zhud-Cochancay, análisis de tráfico y diseño de variantes en la vía

Abstract

Cuenca-Zhud-Cochancay, is considered one of the principal routes between Ecuadorian Austro and the coastal side of the country, it has an important amount of fluence and transit, generating a favorable economic impact. With this said and with a problematic growth of commercials in the zone, we see a necessity to improve the conditions and to generate an alternative to allow a better time of travel and optimizing resources that parallelly would permit the security in the vias. Considering this context, and analyzing transit and road mobility, we determine the suitability of the design and implementation of lateral passages or derivations is determined to improve the current conditions of vehicular circulation. These variants have been defined based on the guidelines and road regulations of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works of Ecuador. Finally, and in parallel, several options were analyzed; and, in some sections, making these improvements was not feasible since the morphology or physical characteristics of certain areas did not allow it. As a conclusion of the work carried out, a preliminary design was obtained that considers and covers the safety and comfort standards that determine the optimal conditions for vehicular traffic; particular that has also been considered with an elementary referential budget that allows to have a general spectrum of the resources that could be required in a feasibility phase of execution of the proposal; In this way, it contributes to a solution to the conflict analyzed and argued in the study.