Traffic and the City Round Table Discussion November 30, 2005 Setting Context and Survey Results

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Traffic and the CityRound Table Discussion
November 30, 2005Setting Context and Survey
Results
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Setting Context Numbers, Fact and Fiction

• Over 3 million registered vehicles
• 250,000 new cars a year
• Over 800,000 cars on the city streets at any time
• 1300km of streets and plans to increase to 1900km
• 35,000 automobile deaths in Russia in 2004
• Each hour per day that vehicles stay stuck in
  traffic costs the city a total of 3.5 billion a
  year in wasted time, fuel and lost gross regional
  product summing up to an annual total of 43.3
  billion. 

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Goals for This Meeting

• Better understand business-related costs of
  traffic problems in Moscow
• Better understand what the citys plans for the
  issues are
• Learn about best practices in addressing these
  problems in other cities
• Discuss possible new approaches in Moscow
• Discuss avenues for input from this group

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How Serious a Problem?
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How to Improve?
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What to Do?
Not Possible 10
Build More Streets 20
Other Restrictions 30
Improve Public Transport20
Congestion Charge 30
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Impact on Investment
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Comments

• Beyond the issue of Traffic Congestion, list
  other transport concerns, especially relating to
  land use
• Not enough public or private parking
• Tram lanes inefficient
• No coordination in traffic signals
• Environmental pollution
• Large industrial vehicles in center
• Overcrowding of subway

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Comments

• Three most effective approaches, in your view,
  for managing transport impacts that might work in
  Moscow?
• Street widening
• More use of grade separations at key
  intersections
• More public / private parking !
• Fee for driving in center
• Application of high technology to control traffic
  (software) with proper implementation
• Effective traffic police to control flow vs.
  collect fines
• Improved public transport
• Restricting (effectively) large vehicles in
  center by day
• Stop people from parking all over the place!!

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Comments

• Three least effective approaches, in your view?
• Ignoring it
• Limiting size of land plots available for
  construction
• City planning which does not support transport to
  dense areas
• City militia and traffic light systems ignore
  stress points and dont regulate flow
• Reorganization of traffic in downtown Moscow