PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY PLAN FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING IN CHAPINERO CENTRO

Abstract

Given the pandemic situation generated by Covid-19, it’s necessary to rethink the lifestyle of society and its quality of life around public and urban spaces, researching in 2019 mobility Bogotá survey’s; on average, they record trips is 14,069 of foot trips, between 10 and 20 minutes according to the travel patterns in the distinctive transport analysis areas at the zonal planning unit Chapinero Centro in the city of Bogotá. In spite of having great social and economic dynamics, this UPZ has very small platforms that make it difficult to comply with social distancing, necessary to mitigate the Coronavirus pandemic. For this reason, this article carried out a geographical analysis of this area, using the data provided by the vulnerability map of the Coronavirus website in Colombia of the Departamento Nacional de Planeación, the Instituto de Evaluación Tecnológica en Salud and the Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística. This geographical analysis allowed calculating the variables of the population indicator per block, the maximum population per platform and the criterion of compliance with social distance. These variables allowed designing the vulnerability and social distancing maps. It was evident that 37% of the platforms do not comply the 2-meter distance between people, so it was proposed to expand them by 3.5 meters and reduce this same value in vehicle space, to design the effective social distance map. It is concluded that the extension of the platforms makes it possible to make flexible use of the streets oriented to a healthy distance, which could be complemented by an accessibility study and a vehicle traffic study that measure the impact of this intervention.