Estudo de tráfego na interseção entre a Av. João Pessoa e Rua Coronel Oscar Rafael Jost na cidade de Santa Cruz do Sul/RS.

Abstract

With the rapid growth of many cities, resolve conflicts traffic in urban areas has become a major challenge for traffic engineering in recent times. The steady growth of the vehicle fleet in urban waterways requires policies aimed at urban design quality that meet current and future needs of the population. Analyzing the municipality of Santa Cruz do Sul/RS, the magnitude of the growth of the vehicular fleet in recent years is clearly discernible in many ways and places in the city, exposing urban infrastructure problems due to lack of planning or actions in time. This study consists in the search for alternatives that will improve traffic flow and safety for users on a traffic light intersection located in the downtown area between Avenue João Pessoa and Street Oscar Rafael Coronel Jost. For being one of the main access roads to the center, Park Oktoberfest, shopping, university and other neighborhoods, traffic in this stretch has periods of saturation and inconvenience to users. At the end of this study will be offered a project with recommendations for improvement identified by qualitative and quantitative methods.