Ensayo
Ensayo
The present investigation refers to the issue of the implementation of rails reversible on
roads that
present problems of road congestion with a volume of traffic that exceeds its capacity.
The main characteristic of the reversible rail is to provide periodic capacity for traffic
demand,
while minimizing the total number of rails on the road In order to implement this solution it is
necessary to mention the causes for the that the section in question was selected. One of
them is
the increase in vehicle fleet that according to the records of the National Traffic Directorate
Managua concentrates 62% of the total number of vehicles in the country. The amount of
vehicles
in the capital is numerous in relation to the rest of the departments of the country, which is
understandable given that almost half of the population lives in Managua, and 90% of the
vehicles
in the departments they circulate through it.
Each year the vehicle fleet in Nicaragua grows by 10,000 units, presenting a growth of 11
percent.
With the same streets and roads, with signaling problems and deficiencies in road education,
we
are prone to more accidents.
Almost half a million vehicles of different types circulate in our country (National Traffic
Directorate March 2011), and taking into account that the road network of the country is
24,033.27 kilometers (Yearbook of Statistical Indicators of transport and infrastructure, MTI,
2013), but only 3,446.83 km have signaling we can define another cause of congestion due
to the
deficit of signs regulating traffic.
This problem, added to the lack of road education for drivers, causes that at the national
level
there is an index of about 67 accidents per day, with almost two deaths daily, according to
statistics from the Security Directorate of Transit.
The investigation of this problem was carried out with the interest of achieving a solution to
the
traffic jam problem that occurs in the section of the track Solidarity, from the Roberto
Huembes
market to the roundabout of the Central America neighborhood. This road is saturated most
of the
day, both for users who want to leave Managua for Masaya and vice versa.
The methodology for the proposed solution entailed carrying out studies such as:
topographic
survey, traffic studies, levels of accident rate and pedestrian flow on the road, including
geotechnical studies and the geometric redesign of the section with a new lane.
Particularly, product of the investigation and the opinion of experts in urban planning, the
optimal
and technically feasible procedure would be relocate the intercity bus terminal, located on
the
road to be analyzed; precisely within the Roberto Huembes market; on the outskirts of the
city
capital, but the realization of this project would bring with it an economic cost, social and
political,
with whose consequences no one would be willing to deal.
Teoría
We chose this investigation because we consider that it is something that should be taken
into
account since the economy and society depend a lot on it and this highway is the most
important
in the country since it is considered the new center of Managua. with this we will be able to
increase the facilitation of a more fluid access of the population to hospitals, health centers,
schools and markets. The promotion of productivity and the revitalization of local and
departmental commercial exchanges due to better road conditions. Many workers travel to
the
free zone on this highway, which is why it is so important. By reaching this goal, we will even
achieve the prevention of accidents, which will save human life.
•Conclusión:
Traffic Engineering is subject to intense and continuous evolution. This evolution appears
fundamentally oriented towards a greater breadth of its field of action and a greater tendency
to establish more or less elaborate laws. When it arrived in Europe from the United States,
Traffic Engineering was exclusively empirical, generally based on a huge mass of data and
observing a posteriori how certain empirical laws are fulfilled, which then constitute the basis
of the new technique, without trying to justify Theoretically the resulting laws.
Engineers, generally with greater theoretical and mathematical preparation, but with less
means to collect and analyze data, try to arrive at similar laws based on theoretical
reasoning, mathematically justified, and thus every day Traffic Engineering is enriched with
more reasoned theories. Traffic Engineering arose in managuan as one more consequence
of the expansion of the private automobile, at a time when it was apparently going to
become the only means of transportation.
However, it was observed that the automobile created insoluble problems, making it evident
the need to jointly study the solution of private and collective transport.
There is already a clear trend to extend the field of Traffic Engineering to the broadest of
transport These techniques are more complicated since it has been found that it is not
possible to isolate the transport problem from other aspects of urban planning. This means
that Traffic Engineering becomes more involved with urban planning, to the point that traffic
or transport techniques are no longer just another branch of
Engineering, but are becoming a fundamental aspect of urban planning, including specialists
in traffic and transport in the teams dedicated to urban planning.
•Recommendations:
1-Promotion of public transport. Perhaps it is the most recurring solution and at the same
time the most effective, since the use of public transport considerably reduces the density of
private vehicle traffic within the city for two fundamental reasons.
2-Promotion of the use of the bicycle. This strategy manages to reduce dependence on
private vehicles, also contributing to the reduction of pollution within the city. In many cases
it could be complemented with the promotion of small vehicles such as motorcycles.
3-Use of vehicles specially adapted for use in the city. For some decades, automobile
companies have been striving to offer alternatives to the traditional private vehicle that stand
out for their functionality, efficiency, and comfort for use within the city. These are generally
small cars that occupy little space and are powered by electric batteries.
4-Limit road traffic. There are measures that generate great controversy among citizens,
including those that limit access to the city center to a certain number of private vehicles.
These are discriminatory measures that are very difficult to implement due to their
unpopularity. This is a debatable measure since even if it can solve the traffic problem, it
implies a significant logistical problem.
5-Do not promote large areas for single use. Continuing in the previous line, one of the great
problems caused by the saturation of access roads to the city is the occupation of large
areas of territory for the same use. For example, the dormitory cities, where it is evident that
all the inhabitants of it leave at the same time every day to go to their place of work. 6-Car
sharing. A very interesting way to reduce the number of vehicles that travel to the city every
day is by sharing a car. Today, and thanks to new technologies, it can be one of the simplest
strategies to reduce traffic and congestion on the access roads to the city. There is great
controversy with the new collaborative economy systems such as Uber, since what was born
as a car sharing system has become a business. However, these types of alternatives must
be included when managing future cities.