Service area
Mobility studies
Services
Study of traffic demand and calculation of deterioration of pavements
Client
SACYR Concesiones S.L. (Spain)
Counterpart
Ing. Javier Perales (Chile)
Date
Juanuary - March 2015
Location
Departments of Colonia, Soriano, Río Negro and Paysandú
Actual state
Finished
Object:
Within the framework of the International Public Tender No. 30/14 of the MTOP regarding the “Diseño, Construcción, Operación y Financiamiento de la Infraestructura Vial en Ruta 21, Tramo: Nueva Palmira —Ruta 2 y Ruta 24, Tramo: Ruta 2 —Ruta 3” the company SACYR Concesiones hires the firms ISTEC Ingeniería and CDS Ingenieros, the review of all the antecedents related to the tender regarding the traffic demand projections and their updating, manual traffic classified counts and determination of deterioration factors and projection of equivalent axes for all the sections associated with the aforementioned call.
Scope of services:
The following activities were carried out
Based on the data collected and produced by the counts, a report was prepared where the current demand and its projection until 2040 (end of the concession) were analyzed. In addition, a sensitivity analysis of the traffic projections was carried out. Using the AASHTO sizing methodology, the different named equivalence actors were determined. All the aforementioned works were carried out in a period of less than two months, allowing the company Sacyr to adjust its proposal for the tender and finally be awarded the contract.
Technical team:
Ing. Nelson Pintos, Ing. Diego Nollenberger, Ing. Maria Eugenia Cardozo