Diego A. Escobar ¹, Santiago Cardona ¹, Carlos A. Moncada ²

Affiliations
1 Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Manizales. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil. Cra 27 # 64-60, Manizales, 170004, CO
2 Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Bogota. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Agrícola. Ciudad Universitaria edificio 214 Oficina 417, Bogota, 111321, CO

Abstract

Objectives: The investigation seeks to calculate the benefits generated in terms of travel time on the road network until the place where the International Coffee Airport, in the municipality of Palestina, in the department of Caldas, Colombia, will be built. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Calculating the integral accessibility to airports in current situation without the construction of Coffee Airport and future situation with the start-up of the Coffee Airport we can calculate the savings in travel time generated by the new facility in the Cofee Region. Besides, for the geo statistical model Kriging Ordinary model is used. Findings: The obtained results probe that the new airport benefits 528381 people in terms of travel time and accessibility and improved the Coffee Cultural Landscape and its importance in the Coffee Region Tourism. Application/Improvement: The integral accessibility as a planning tool to determine the advantages of the construction of new facilities like airports in terms of travel time on a specific road network. By calculating the integral accessibility to airports in current and future situations, with the start-up of the Coffee Airport, calculating the savings generated through the savings gradient is possible, finding which are the municipalities and percentage of population in the area of influence that will benefit the most in terms of time.

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Diego A. Escobar ¹, Jorge A. Montoya ¹, Carlos A. Moncada ²

Affiliations
1 Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Manizales. Departamento de Ingenieria Civil. Cra 27 # 64-60, Manizales, 170004, CO
2 Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Bogota. Departamento de Ingenieria Civil y Agricola. Ciudad Universitaria edificio 214 Oficina 417, Bogotá, 111321, CO

Abstract

Objectives: To Minimize the cost in travel time for inhabitants, while maximizing the quality of life, guaranteeing social and economic growth of the municipality. Methods/Analysis: It is proposed to carry out evaluation of impact of road interventions based on territorial accessibility through geostatistical analysis, as well as the linkage of major socioeconomic variables, using digital tools (ArcMap, Microsoft Excel, and TransCad). Findings: Applied mechanics allows efficient interpretation and replication of the impact assessment generated by road interventions, based on territorial accessibility, ensuring an effective decision making in the future, in order to generate a greater economic and social benefit for the city. Application/Improvement: The evaluation through accessibility facilitates the location of critical points in mobility, allowing focusing resources and improving the quality of life of the surrounding population.

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Diego A. Escobar ¹, Santiago Cardona ¹, Carlos A. Moncada ²

Affiliations
1 Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Manizales. Facultad de Ingenieria y Arquitectura. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil. Cra 27 # 64-60, Manizales, 170004, CO
2 Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Bogota. Departamento de Ingenieríia Civil y Agricola. Ciudad Universitaria edificio 214 Oficina 417, Bogota, 111321, CO

Abstract

Objectives: To evaluate the impact generated in cars travel time by road redirections made in the gastronomic zone in Manizales, Colombia. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Using the global mean accessibility and integral accessibility to gastronomic zone in Manizales for two differents scenarios, before and after the road redirections we will use the saving gradient to measure the impact of the new directions in the urban mobility. Findings: The impact generated by the road redirections in both accessibility measures is negative, so the travel times increase in the new scenario. This would generate a disminution in the use of private vehicule in the gastronomic zone and an increase use for walking and public transport. Application/Improvement: Accessibility as a tool fro urban planning and the measure of the impact of road redirections in specific zones in the cities where it would like to generated a space free of private vehicles.

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Gustavo Arteaga ¹, Diego Escobar ², Carlos A. Moncada ³

Affiliations
1 Departamento de Arte, Arquitectura y Diseno, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Calle 18 # 118 – 250, Cali, 760031, CO
2 Departamento de Ingenieria Civil, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales. Carrera 27 # 64-60, Manizales, 170004, CO
3 Departamento de Ingenieria Civil y Agricola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogota, Ciudad Universitaria edificio 214 Oficina 417, Bogota, 111321, CO

Abstract

Objectives: To investigate the urban consolidation processes of the municipality of Santiago de Cali, as well as the transformation patterns of urban surfaces to recognize specific phenomena. Methods/Analysis: Communes as urban surfaces with administrative and territorial elements (therefore, common attributes) are the basis for contrasting specific phenomena that mark the links with the population determinants that transform the territory, which accounts for informality (phenomenon of interest) as a particular way of urbanizing. In this sense, the surface/population relationship produces indicators that, recognized from the present, allow connecting sequentially and temporally with the origins of the process, understanding it as a “cause and effect” relationship that can be structured and systematized in matrices of data that allow to visualize the relationship scenarios. Findings: This vision of formality (on the process of urbanization) has not been characteristic, since the acceleration of many of the determinants that generate it as population growth or economic cycles have distorted how it is seen, while other phenomena have occurred where urbanization outside the perspective of the State became informal, demonstrating the low capacity for intervention. The scenarios of public policies that sought to ensure those minimum urban conditions were blurred with the increase of that informality, becoming one of the issues that the State must face; and in the case of the municipality of Santiago de Cali, there are particularities that have manifested this informality in scales that allow understanding and studying the different aspects that produce it and, at the same time, to characterize it. Application/Improvement: The development of the present investigation allowed observing particular conditions in the design of planning instruments that start from the recognition of this informality as another form of city construction and that complement the study of this type of relations in the territory.

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