Inspecciones de seguridad vial como herramienta fundamental para la reducción de accidentes

Abstract

Abstract: Traffic accidents are one of the most important causes in the world, especially in low and middle-income countries that have a high number of deaths; Ecuador being one of the countries where the issue of road safety is not very attended; Therefore, the objective of this work conssits in the evaluation of road safety to a specific section of the Loja Catamayo road, through the methodology used by the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), which is based on a hazard categorization of the routes from 1 to 5 stars, 1 being the most dangerous and 5 the safest. We worked with a video that makes the route of a section of the road in 2016 and a curret recording in 2020, allowing the evaluation of it according to four types of users: vehicle drivers, motorcyclists, cyclists and pedestrians. The results show that for the years 2016 and 2020 the road under study presents a classification of 1 star for pedestrians and 2 and 3 stars for drivers of vehicles, motorcyclists and cyclists; in other words, the road is rated with a high and medium risk level for this type of user.