Chile Chico Transportation Management Masterplan

• Location: City of Chile Chico - Chile
• Client: Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications - CGM Engineers Ltd
• Total Area: 3,06 hectares / 7,56 acres
• Design: 2021-2024
• Service: Urban analysis, urban masterplanning, and urban/landscape design
• Key Designers: Juan Patricio Cáceres

Transportation management masterplans (TMM or PMGT) are tactical planning tools intended to promote the use of non-motorized means of transportation. In the process, TMM’s gather and distill large amounts of information regarding the territory and the transportation intended to be elaborated in subsequent phases -e.gr. the development of strategic transportation plans and/or the study of city ordinances. Chile Chico TMM suggested several initiatives intended to solve transportation issues. Of them, two addressed critical issues raised by local communities, and, not by chance, suggested processes of urban renovation in the city: (1) It set a new standard for sidewalks and pedestrian crossings around the city’s main square, and Bernardo O’Higgins Avenue -two of the most relevant public spaces in the city. (2) It offered a design for a set of minor streets in the east end of the city, intended to facilitate the access of recent public housing developments to Chile Chico’s main environmental asset: Lake Carrera lakeshore.