Auditoría en seguridad vial ruta nacional 50, tramo 5003., Pr k 31+ 139. 75 - k 25+139.75 la Virginia a Apia

Abstract

The work carried out and proposed in this investigation corresponded to the Road Safety Audit of national route # 50, section 5003., Pr k 31+ 139. 75 - k 25 + 139.75 in the direction of La Virginia to Apia , for this the state of the art, the theoretical framework that gives scientific support to the work, a field work was carried out to be able to have the information of the variables that were audited, they: vehicle containment barriers, horizontal and vertical signs, physical risk and aggressive behaviors of the road actors, to later carry out an analysis of them, the methodology used in the work corresponded to the descriptive quantitative one and among the most important results obtained were: The high accident rate is attributed to the lack of routine maintenance without ignoring according to WHO, the majority of road accidents occur due to human behavior, There is little visibility at night since the road corridor lacks i lighting generating a risk of accidents, it is necessary to install and start up lighting units Keywords: Road Safety Audit, Barriers, Signaling, vehicle containment barriers, horizontal signs, vertical signs, physical risks, aggressive behaviors of road actors.