Establecimiento de estaciones de control primaria en la red estatal del cantón Catamayo con miras a la obtención de variables de tráfico.

Abstract

Abstract:Knowing the characteristics of vehicular flow in a road network constitutes the main information at the moment of decision making, these for design, readjustment, evaluation or maintenance purposes. In three roads of the state network of the Catamayo county, six primary control stations were implemented with the use of a MetroCount 5600 pneumatic counter. The data-taking period was from September 4, 2017 to January 29, 2018. The location of the stations allows to determine the traffic deviated by sections. For each station was obtained the records of the circulation of vehicles by class, by senses of circulation, the speeds of point, and with the processing and generation of reports with the program MetroCount Traffic Executive v5.02 was determined the Average daily weekly, annual traffic, the maximum demand time volumes, the maximum hourly demand factor, the class flow composition, the speed ranges with their frequencies, the different percentiles of Speed P15, P50, P85 and P98, between other. The information obtained has been entered an existing geovisor for general access through the electronic address visualizaciones.000webhostapp.com.