Abstract

FLORES, Enrique; MORA-ARIAS, Estefanía; CHICA, Jessica  and  BALSECA, Mario. Evaluation of student mobility and spatial accessibility to educational centers in peri-urban areas. Novasinergia [online]. 2022, vol.5, n.1, pp.128-149.  Epub Jan 31, 2022. ISSN 2631-2654.  https://doi.org/10.37135/ns.01.09.08.

Abstract: Education is an essential condition to achieve the development of societies; therefore, it is necessary to guarantee its accessibility to the entire population and specially to disadvantaged sectors. This study analyzed the spatial accessibility of the population to public primary and secondary education centers in four peri-urban parishes in the canton of Cuenca. Two approaches were used for data processing. The first one was at the household level. As a result, information was obtained for 408 students. The second one is at the level of consolidated areas that formulates accessibility scenarios, relating travel costs in time and distance. These scenarios were modeled using tools based on Geographic Information Systems. As a result, the most used means of transportation is by foot (54.38%) and an average travel time of 13.5 minutes. Thus, the educational centers are close to each other even though they are peri-urban

Keywords : Accesibilidad; educación; periurbano; planificación; transporte; Accessibility; education; peri-urban; planning; transportation.

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