Calidad en la Educación e Infraestructuras del Transporte desde la Accesibilidad Territorial. Departamento de Caldas en Colombia como Caso de Estudio

Abstract

ResumenEn esta investigación se establece la relación existente entre las características operativas de la red de infraestructura del transporte del Departamento de Caldas (Colombia) y los resultados de las pruebas SABER-11 de las instituciones educativas obtenidas en el año 2015. Estas pruebas son las que las instituciones de educación superior toman como referencia para los procesos de admisión. Se calcula la cobertura geográfica para todos los colegios a partir de la red de infraestructuras del transporte y se analizan los resultados según la calificación obtenida en las pruebas por cada Institución Educativa. Los resultados obtenidos permitieron establecer que existe una relación directa entre la calidad de la educación ofrecida y las condiciones de accesibilidad territorial hacia las instituciones educativas del Departamento, en términos de los tiempos medios de viaje que deben ser invertidos. La investigación concluye sobre la importancia de tener instituciones educativas con altas condiciones de accesibilidad para la población, lo cual mejorara la calidad de la educación. Palabras clave: accesibilidad; planeamiento regional; redes de transporte, calidad de la educación Quality in Education and Transport Infrastructure from the Territorial Accessibility Pont of View. Caldas Department in Colombia as a Study Case AbstractIn this research, the current relation between the operative characteristics supplied by the transport infrastructure network of the department of Caldas (Colombia) and the results obtained in the Saber 11 test by educational institutions during 2015 is stablished. This test is the one considered by higher education institutions for admission of new students. Geographic coverage for all the Caldas' schools is calculated based on the transport infrastructure network and the results are analysed according to the grade obtained in the test for each institution. The final results allowed stablishing the direct relation between educational quality supplied and the territorial accessibility conditions to the educational institutions in the department, in terms of average travel time invested. The research identifies the relevance of having educational institutions with high accessibility conditions for the community, which would enhance the quality of education.

Coverage of educational centers from territorial accessibility in the municipality of Pitalito - Huila, Colombia

“…Education, as a component of development, plays an important role in the constru-ction of a city, considering that it is a first quality element [7] and of high quality, which must have qualities of accessibility [24] capable of mitigate the demand generated by the community. In this way, it is evident the need to maintain an adequate educational coverage in order to increase the population's growth and development; Therefore, the possibility of access should be evaluated and guaranteed, based on interventions in infrastructure by the municipal administration.…”

“…Thus, we establish accessibility as a measure of the ease with which citizens interact among different activities from different modes of transport [15], facilitating economic development and growth [17]. Some researches related to accessibility and education in the literature [7,20,24,13] facilitate the growth of our case study; similarly, there are varied applications from other fields of science: [4,5,10,16,12,14,22,23].…”

Analysis of coverage for armed force land use in Pitalito (Colombia), through territorial accessibility

“…The term in itself represents the possibility of accessing something, however, in our medium of application it extends its meaning to the means by which access is achieved [14]; therefore there are different definitions of the term although they are all based on the one established by Hansen in 1959 "the potential of opportunities for interaction" [9]. Some definitions of accessibility in the environment relate to the measure of the ease of access to different activities or services from the existing infrastructure [5,22], however, there are variations in the term from other points of view [10,16]. Some applications of accessibility in different fields of application are education [20,22], sustainability [3,8], demography [11], security [18], and social cohesion [12], among others.…”

“…Some definitions of accessibility in the environment relate to the measure of the ease of access to different activities or services from the existing infrastructure [5,22], however, there are variations in the term from other points of view [10,16]. Some applications of accessibility in different fields of application are education [20,22], sustainability [3,8], demography [11], security [18], and social cohesion [12], among others.…”

Gyms Coverage in the City of Manizales and Villamaría Through Accessibility Analysis by the Pedestrian Network Infrastructure

“…On the other hand, Geurs and Ritsema van Eck (2003) defined the concept of accessibility as measurements that described the service level of a road infrastructure network, based on a study of how accessibility affected land use in the Netherlands. In addition to the above, terms such as relative accessibility were developed; this refers to the degree of connection that have two points to each other, both located on the same surface and road network, with the exemption that the intensity of such points will not be the same, and it will vary depending on the direction in which the analysis is carried out (Ingram, 1971); integral accessibility, basically deals with the characteristics of interconnection that may exist between a point and the rest of its peers through the road network (Ingram, 1971), and which has been used in the study of accessibility to places that provide specific services such as schools (Zuluaga, Escobar, & Hincapié, 2017), universities (Younes, Escobar, & Holguín, 2016), hospitals (Rodríguez Díaz, 2011) and the diverse primary activity nodes (Escobar, Cadena, & Salas, 2016), among others.…”