Propuesta de análisis de la infraestructura existente para implementar una red de ciclorrutas conectantes entres las sedes de las calles 52, 63, 73 de la Universidad USTA

Abstract

In the present project of degree it is analyzed the measures and initiatives that must be implemented in the city of Bogota, by the government, to encourage the use of the bicycle as a means of transport, taking into account the importance of this element to reduce the road congestion, support the sustainable development of the city, improve the health and welfare of citizens by reducing the negative impacts caused to the environment.

The foregoing, taking into account that there is currently a significant deficit of road corridors in the city that satisfies an unplanned increase in private vehicles; added to a mass transit service increasingly obsolete that does not meet the needs of citizens, who are doomed to use them, despite the increasing deterioration in air quality that are suffering the main cities in Colombia especially the city of Bogotá, is motivating government agencies to establish new policies, and citizen and business initiatives to generate better mobility without affecting environmental conditions, such as the use of clean energy, less polluting and safe fuels, use of means with minimal or no production of emissions, it is at this point, where the need arose to base our proposal to carry out an analysis of the existing infrastructure of bike paths to implement a bicycle communication network that articulates through a circuit the headquarters of the Universidad Santo Tomás de las streets 51, 63, 73, which would benefit the mobility of the community they study useful, educational, administrative and others, who are part of the institution who in turn indirectly must participate in a more committed and effective way to improve the mobility of the city and the physical and mental well-being of the citizens who live there . For this, it was essential to analyze the existing infrastructure, starting from its current state, problems and difficulties encountered through its operation, and then designing a network of bicycle lanes in the corridors where there was not the implementation of the network of connectivity of bike paths with the Santo Tomás University you will find calle 52, calle 63 and calle 73. Once the circuit was structured, we proceeded to the design of the horizontal and vertical signage to finally advance the proposed type of parking lot cycle to be implemented in the university facilities and in the areas surrounding.

Unfortunately in the national territory there is no updated regulation that regulates the use of the bicycle as a means of transport, however, the lack of a specific regulation for the use of the bicycle as a means of transport, has not been an obstacle to that the city of Bogotá does not include this means of transportation in its mobility master plan (PMM); where it seeks to prioritize the most sustainable transport subsystems, such as public transport or go on foot or by bicycle. But it is especially in his chapter 9 where the importance is given to the use of the bicycle as a means of transport, an alternative that is part of the intermobility that the city requires in the future.

Due to the efforts and policies established by the district administrations in the implementation of adequate spaces (bike paths, bicycle lanes) for the safe transit of this means of transport (bicycle), an increase in the population has been generated, increasing from 1% since the decade from the 90s a day to 19% of the city's population in 2016 and 25% today, with 84% satisfaction of bike-users.

For the present proposal only 2.6 km of the 392 kilometers of bike paths that the city currently has will be used. Those that will connect the 52, 63 and 73 streets of the Santo Tomas University (USTA). But unfortunately at the time of making this document has been established that of the 2.6 kilometers of road axis to be used, 68% is in good condition while 32% is in poor condition, increasing the risk of bike-users to suffer some type of accident. Thus, in the framework of the development of the project, a survey was conducted to the current users of this means of transport (bicycle) in the USTA, in order to know the user's perception of the existing corridor status and safety of the same, allowing to weigh the perception of potential users against the infrastructure offered by the city between streets 73 and 51 with career 13.

Therefore, it was defined to perform auscultation of the pavement of the existing bike paths, identifying the existing faults, in order to verify if the degree of perception of the user bike corresponds from the technical and functional point of view to the current state of the corridor, Once the field work was done from the visual auscultation, we found that the main structural faults identified in the areas in poor condition are fissures, transverse and longitudinal cracks that in some areas exceed 3 mm of dilatation. Other flaws identified are the detachment of the rolling layer, bumps in the flexible pavement and stretches in cobblestone, which in a high percentage are concentrated in the intersections via Pompeyans, which allows us to qualify the current system of bike paths of the evaluated sector, as in regular state.

Likewise, we consider that mobility in these vehicles (bicycles) is considered a necessity for a healthy, environmentally friendly journey and why not referring it would be the most appropriate and feasible use during the peak hours of the city, functional for the student, educational and administrative community of the University Santo Tomás that daily move between the headquarters of the streets 52, 63 and 73. For the previously exposed, the proposal of the use of 2.624 ml of the existent corridors in the city is made and the implementation of four sectors with Bicicarril located in the following spaces: • Street 52 between Carreras 7 and 9 with an approximate length of 30 meters • Street 52 between Carreras 9 and 13 with an approximate length of 160 meters • Lourdes Park on 63rd Street between the 13th and 9th races with an approximate length of 160 meters. • Street 73 between races 9 and 11 with an approximate length of 210.5 meters.

This technical evaluation made it possible to establish a proposal of intervention to the structure of the bike path and to propose the signaling design for it.

Additionally, the strengthening of the capacity of the cycloparqueaderos located in the parking lots of the headquarters of the Santo Tomás University of 52nd Street, 63rd Street and 73rd Street, each with a capacity of 70 bicycle parking areas, was proposed. with a capacity of 210 parking spaces for bicycles between these venues.