Strategy for long-term development of Public Transport in a large city: the case of Saratov

摘要

Theme of this session - process and criteria for system selection For us this choice consists not in that 《what exactly to do》, but in 《doing》 and first of all 《to invest》 in public transport. The political will and investment of big money resources are necessary. The market will not regulate transport problems of a large city by itself. Present-day Saratov is an example that any large city expects when actually ignoring a transport problem, insufficiency of investments into public transport: streets, court yards, and foot sidewalks of city are one big parking place, roads is a traffic jam, awful ecology The basis of strategy of the development of PT in Saratov, on prospect, can be just the development of municipal electric PT. Electric transport is the most accommodating for a large number of passengers, the most harmless, and the most economic. As shown by our own experience, the most reliable type of the PT The main strategic problem of development of electric PT is to make trips by trams and trolleybuses more attractive for owners of personal transport, than the use of their own cars.