Metodología para la determinación de la movilidad en ciudades de tamaño medio.El caso de Mérida

Abstract

In last years urban mobility studies are increased in middle cities. These follow to optimize traffic flows and its transport supply, assign a higher weight to urban and non-motorized transports in opposed to owner cars (as more problematic, with major costs and social imbalances). Reduce vehicular congestion in urban road networks, environmental pollution levels and the economic management costs of this activity are one of the main results obtained by the methodology proposed. The whole target which is presented in this Thesis is to develop a methodology that identifies mobility patterns of middle cities, through a partial analyzes in the transport modes used by the majority of the urban demand. Define the potential demand is other objective to consider in the research, beside extract the most important variables, problematic areas flows and attractor trip points. The culmination of all that, is design a dynamic traffic assignment model to estimate the number of trips through each stretch of the system and used to predict changes in global mobility from local modifications of some variables of it. All this is applied to a particular case study of Mérida in Extremadura.