Optimization of urban transport; an alternative to checkerboard towns plans

Abstract

In this paper, we established a precedent to provide urban planning alternatives, given that in modern mobility problems, it is difficult to provide a corrective solution. The proposal of this work focuses on finding preventive rather than remedial solutions, although in particular cases, it may be applicable. We simulated town design situations with optimal ramified transport and metaheuristic optimization methods. For this purpose, it was necessary to analyze the essential aspects of road transportation and traffic problems in the world’s leading cities, considering the hypodamic planes proposed in antiquity and contrasting their properties with optimal ramified transportation.