Metodología de modelamiento de un sistema de transporte urbano

Abstract

Like in other large cities around the world, Lima suffers everyday from public transportation problems, and experts have said very few about how to face the challenge that the improvement of this complex system represents. This paper presents and analyzes thoroughly the classical four-stage transport model, focused on the demand for transportation services. Hence, the authors are trying to encourage the discussion about the necessity of adopting a methodological framework, as the fist step in the effort to reduce the effects of the lack of planning of Lima’s transportation system on the life quality of its inhabitants.

Like in other large cities around the world, Lima suffers everyday from public transportation problems, and experts have said very few about how to face the challenge that the improvement of this complex system represents. This paper presents and analyzes thoroughly the classical four-stage transport model, focused on the demand for transportation services. Hence, the authors are trying to encourage the discussion about the necessity of adopting a methodological framework, as the fist step in the effort to reduce the effects of the lack of planning of Lima’s transportation system on the life quality of its inhabitants.

En Lima, como en otras ciudades del mundo, diariamente sufrimos el problema del sistema de transporte; sin embargo, los académicos se han manifestado en muy pocas oportunidades sobre cómo ha cerle frente al desafío que representa la mejora de este complejo sistema. Este artículo presenta y desagrega el modelo de las cuatro fases en lo rela tivo a la demanda de transporte urbano y pone al alcance de los lectores el marco metodológico más utilizado en la planificación de este tipo de sistemas en diversas ciudades. Su finalidad es promover la discusión sobre la necesidad de adoptar una metodología y sus re qui sitos para enfrentarse riamente los problemas del transporte en nuestra ciudad.