Auditoría en seguridad vial concesión autopistas del café, tramo la Trinidad - la Uribe, comprendida desde la abscisa k 19 +000 al k 23+390

Abstract

The project presented here corresponds to the performance of the Road Safety Audit on the Chinchiná - Manizales highway, in the La Uribe - La Trinidad section from the abscissa k 19 +000 to k 23 + 390, via the Autopistas del Café concession, To the variables: barriers, signs, physical risks and aggressive behaviors of the road actors, in order to carry out the fulfillment of this objective, the execution of four specific objectives was proposed, which were also carried out successfully. To develop the work, the state of the art was investigated at an international, national, and local level, the theoretical framework that gives support from science and academia to the work, and the descriptive quantitative methodology was used, the most important results show, the Speed and inexperience are the cause of the high accident rate, combining with the fact that the road presents a moderately tolerable risk, which translates into requiring a medium-term intervention that allows correcting the deficiencies presented in the signaling, and barriers, an analysis of preventive maintenance programs as it is evident that they are not being complied with and road education must be strengthened to allow greater awareness of road actors about the causes of the accident.