Latin America is positioned as the most affected region and with the largest structural problems Road congestion All over the world, especially CDMXAccording to the latest version of the Tomtomtraffic Index report, in which 500 cities were analyzed in 62 countries.
According to the report, Latin American cities lead the upper positions during the transfer, lost hours and slow movement.
The most representative case is the Mexican capital, CDMXwhich leads the world rating as a city with the greatest overflow BottleThe field among the main indicators is released as 52 percent of saturation, on average 32 minutes, ten kilometers traveled, and on average – 152 hours a year, lost as a result of movement.
Other places, such as Barrankill, located north of Columbia, have serious problems with the mobility of the road. This city ranks first in slowness, 36 minutes for ten kilometers.
Lima, the capital of Peru, also stands out, which has the most annual waste time behind the wheel, 155 hours per inhabitant.
In addition, other Mexican cities, such as Guadalahara, Puebla, Leon, Tihuana and Ekatepek, are one of the most overloaded on the continent, which shows a regional model that not only affects the capital.
From diagnosis to action
Faced with this panorama, specialists and mobility authorities gathered in Mexico City at the forum convened by Interteffic, a business accelerator and knowledge for the mobility and road technology sector, where alternatives of technological and urban planning were discussed with the aim of promoting intellectual mobile solutions.
Jose Azkarat Baltran, President of the Mexican Association of Engineering Technologies in the field of transport (Amit) and the company Mexico intellectual transport systems (STI Mexico), said that the mobility crisis requires comprehensive intervention, which combines planning, technology and effective state policy.
He also warned that one of the main delays in the region is the lack of professionalization in transport services, both people and goods. To this, small investments in the technological infrastructure are added, partly from the fact that these tools are “expensive toys for rich countries.”
“The highest cost incurred by society relating to mobility technologies is not to realize them,” the specialist said.
For his part, Montserrat Azcárate Sosa, an urban planning specialist and a member of the Interrafic Américas Council, said that “it is necessary to move from paper to action”, emphasizing the need to integrate urban planning with the reality of public space and new forms of resources.
“Integral solutions are urgently required to combine planning, mobility and actions aimed at becoming an intellectual city in the capital of Mexico, as well as to other cities of Latin America, given the growing problem in this area,” he concluded.
With information EFE
