Mosgortrans (transit company)

Mosgortrans (Russian Мосгортранс ) is a state-owned Russian transport company, which operates most of the public transport in Moscow. The organized as a company since 1958 operating wrapped in the Russian capital from the entire tram, bus and trolleybus. On the other hand are not operated by Mosgortrans the Metro, which is an independent transport companies, and the inner-city rail network which is owned by Russian Railways.

History

Mosgortrans was formed on July 31, 1958 decision of the city council of Moscow. The newly formed organization whose name originally was managing the public transport Moscow ( Управление пассажирского транспорта Москвы ), which replaced two previously separate organizations, the other hand, were responsible for the bus and coach transport on the one hand and the trolleybus and tram. This reestablishment of the largest municipal public transport company of the then Soviet Union was formed. In 1960, the funds managed by Mosgortrans transport carried a total of 2.669 billion passengers; the fleet consisted of 1776 tramcar, trolley 1360 Breast and 2665 buses, divided into eleven bus depots and eight tram depot.

In the 1990s Mosgortrans came in the wake of economic decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union suffered a serious financial crisis which made ​​it impossible to maintain the quality of passenger services to a satisfactory standard. During this time, only a few new vehicles were purchased, which led to a significant obsolescence of the fleet and increased susceptibility of the above-ground public transport in Moscow. It was not until the late 90 's financial problems could be partially solved. So until then missed by many Dodger revenue through the early 2000s, carried out installation of turnstiles at the entrance doors of buses, trolleybuses and trams could be backed up again, which made ​​a partial renewal of the vehicle fleet possible. However Mosgortrans came in connection with the installation of turnstiles several times in public criticism, as this just leads to high stress lines in a significant delay of the passenger change.

Current data

According to the state by the end of 2006 Mosgortrans is the largest urban public transport company of Russia and annually transports approximately 4.2 billion passengers, representing around 47 percent of total municipal revenues. Daily up to 5800 vehicles in use. The car park is divided into a total of 17 bus depots, seven Trolleybusbetriebshöfe, a combined depot for car and trolley buses and five tram depot.

For transport by buses, trolleybuses and trams single tickets are sold. The fare for a single journey is with the 2010 level 24 rubles (equivalent to about 0.65 EUR ), which is slightly cheaper than a single ticket for the metro (26 rubles). In addition, multi-ride tickets for 5, 10, 20 or 60 trips. A special feature here is that the purchase of a ticket from the driver is possible, but with 28 rubles per single trip much more expensive to book proposes as the purchase in one of the special kiosks, although not there at every stop. This pricing policy is established by the Moscow City Government contrary to considerable criticism, so that the ticket sales by bus or tram driver should remain an exception because he was delaying the exchange of passengers at bus stops.

Means of transport

Buses and Coaches

The bus traffic is in the Russian capital since 1907 and today with more than 530 lines, the most significant above-ground public transport is the overriding application of the buses are the suburbs, where they often serve as the main tributaries of the metro. The timetable clock is, depending on the time and utilization of the line, between five and 25 minutes; a few lines operate only at certain times, which are shown in this case by a timetable at bus stops. The fleet consists mostly of single, more rarely, joint dual carriage of the Russian LiAZ - works from the 1990s and 2000s, but also of Ikarus articulated buses from the 80s and early 90s. In recent years, more and more low-floor buses are also used.

Trolley buses

The Moscow trolleybus system was founded in 1933 with the LK -1 and is currently 85 lines, the world's largest of its kind in contrast to buses Moscow Trolley buses mainly in the city center as well as on major arterial roads. Since the establishment of new Trolleybusstrecken is much more complex because of the necessary overhead line installation as introduction of new bus routes, the future development of the Moscow trolley bus network, in particular with regard to the current overload of the Moscow streets shall be considered as uncertain. For some routes, there are already decommissioning plans.

Trolley buses for Moscow are manufactured by the Trolsa plants in the Volga city of Engels. Currently, a fairly wide range of different models in use that developed by 1972 and still widely used in the ex -Soviet Trolleybusbetrieben Model SIU -9 extends to recently developed low-floor types in Mosgortrans.

Both car and trolleybus routes of Mosgortrans are numbered from one to two digits, a number of bus routes also three digits. Here, a bus and a trolleybus line quite also have an identical number, which could be confusing for foreign visitors to the city. A special feature of the trolley loop line Б ( the Cyrillic letter "B"), which operates on the Garden Ring.

Trams

Main article: Tram Moscow

The electric tram exists in Moscow since 1899 and is the oldest public transport in the city. In 2007, the network consisted of 37 lines to a total of about 200 km tracks. For use are both single and double traction of car models Tatra T3, KTM and KTM 8 - 19th Over the past decades, the Moscow tram continuously lost among all the transport in the city in importance; almost all routes in the historic city center have now been decommissioned and partially replaced by bus or trolley bus routes. Several routes to major arterial roads were completely or partially degraded in the recent past in order to create additional space for the ever-increasing traffic. While " traditional " tram lines are permanently under threat of closure, there are recent plans for some fast tram lines along the lines of a light rail. This should relieve in certain suburbs bus services in his capacity as Metro feeder.