Guía para evaluar la sostenibilidad en proyectos viales adaptada a las condiciones de biodiversidad geográfica de Colombia

Abstract

Road infrastructure projects have an impact on the growth and development of countries, since they integrate road planning as a conglomerate of different purposes or characteristics that increase competitiveness between territories, satisfying the needs of trafficability of vehicles, people, cargo, among others; despite the above, such road projects also have environmental and in some cases social and/or economic impacts. In this order of ideas, the objective of this document is to propose a guide to evaluate sustainability in roads, integrating the conditions of geographic biodiversity that the country has, such guide is consolidated from the study and unification of four international methodologies that deal with sustainability in road projects, the authors establish five types of categories, The guide was validated through the application of a case study, where the percentage of sustainability of the project was determined, which is why the authors proposed sustainable strategies to increase this percentage. Finally, it was identified that the applicability of the guide is wide, since it can be implemented in different case studies and types of roads, as long as a broad and detailed reconnaissance of the area is carried out, making it a tool for the integral management of the territory, which can be used by governmental entities and/or any natural person.