Obedience of road users before transit control devices - a case study

摘要

This article presents an obedience study of road users before traffic control devices carried out in a population with high accident rates throughout three clearly defined phases. These consisted in determining the behavior of the users through traffic gauges, verifying the state of the signaling and the application of surveys to know the users' behavior. During the development of the project, it was evidenced that the human factor is the main cause of risks of road accidents and traffic infractions, represented by pedestrians and motorcyclists. The study is original and of interest in Civil Engineering due to the fact that there are few works of this type about small populations in Colombia and it works as a model project that could be replicated if necessary. However, limitations were found for the realization of the project such as the scarce documented information existing in the country that could be an effective support for comparison with the results obtained here.