Debate intelligent transit system for Santo Domingo
In the framework of the first International Seminar on Urban Mobility, organized by the Erwin Walter Palm Foundation and the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), national and international experts in urban mobility presented the challenges and possibilities of an intelligent transit system for the city of Santo Domingo.
The deputy Tobías Crespo, member of the Commission of Public Works of the National Congress, presented the preliminary draft Law on mobility, land transport, traffic and road that is currently in Congress.
The central exhibition was in charge of the Korean engineer specialist in Urban Planning and Transit System Automation, Jin-Young Kim, who presented his proposal on an automated system to direct and control traffic in Santo Domingo, after having conducted a study on the specific local problem.
"In countries with more developed systems what is done is that sensors are placed, statistics are collected and crossed to, from them, simulate in software the optimal routes".
Among the aspects to identify to define optimal routes and where changes are urgent are in which areas there are more illegal parking lots, where in the city more fines are placed or where traffic lights adjustments are required.
"An adequate transit system affects the city's safety, since there is the possibility of distributing traffic so that vehicles do not cross places that are very vulnerable to floods, earthquakes or crimes," Kim said, adding that everything should move towards a surveillance system.
The seminar was headed by José Enrique Del Monte, of the Erwin Walter Palm Foundation, Martín Abbott, coordinator of the Civil Engineering career of INTEC, Víctor González, of the Master's Degree in Transport and Roads of INTEC, Ambassador Luis Polanco and diplomatic authorities of the Korean Embassy in the country.
Transit in Santo Domingo
Among the problems that Kim identifies in the country is the existence of many feeds through small streets that lead to a single main road, which becomes saturated.
Explains that the solutions merit policies and that services are supported in intelligent systems (TCM, ITS and surveillance), connected with the Fire Department, the National Police and ambulances, in cases of traffic accidents.
These measures would favor a better efficiency in the connections between streets, a better operation of signals and a campaign of orientation to the drivers. Regarding the application of policies to educate people, he raised the need to increase or apply fines more efficiently and provide traffic authorities operating on the streets with ICT devices connected to databases that allow Get immediate information about the drivers.
Korean system
According to the Korean engineers, intelligent systems guarantee a permanent flow of vehicles -including at peak hours- and it is even capable of generating alternative routes at times when traffic jams occur at specific points in the city without the intervention of human beings. humans.
A platform with cutting-edge technology serves as a brain to mobilize a volume of high traffic that saturates the capacity of human agents in cities such as the Dominican capital. These systems include screens in strategic points of citizen orientation on the best routes in real time, the same apply more effective fines for cases of infractions, reduce the number of traffic accidents and attend them in a timely manner with a better coordination between the institutions in charge of attending these cases (firemen, ambulances, etc.).