Transportation in Lima is bad. Very bad. In fact, it’s so bad that people in Lima often struggle to find enough examples to help someone in Spain truly grasp just how bad it is.

Fortunately, there are professionals dedicated to improving the system using proven simulation and quantitative analysis techniques. Unfortunately, these experts are not part of the city’s transit authority.

Managing transportation in a metropolitan area the size of Lima (with 9.5 million residents) is no easy task. But as the attached article explains, simply adding more lanes to major avenues is neither the only nor the best solution.

The larger the system, the harder it is to predict the impact of any single change. As the article points out, only advanced process-simulation methods can provide the insights needed to evaluate project feasibility, compare different strategies (regulatory, infrastructure, technological), and even explore combinations of them.