All the best that is made in Ukraine – gathers correspondent Julia Savostina. She visited Dnipropetrovsk “Yuzhmash” and saw that made national pride – the newest trams.
The government is implementing ambitious plans for the sustainable development of public transport in the country. For the period to 1999/2000 passenger traffic volume grew by almost 50%.
Diversified revenue, stable funding, improving efficiency and increasing the number of passengers are the four pillars supporting the financial stability of the sector of public transport and to help lessen its dependence on subsidies.
Due to the rapid population growth and quickly built-up vast territories, to 2020 is expected to quadruple the demand for mobility of up to 22 million trips daily.
Not so long ago the “Tatra-Yug” company held a contest among the young and promising Ukrainian designers on the best design of a new tramcar. It received more than 10 applications for participation in the competition, among whom were very talented work.
On December 18 representatives of the company “Tatra-Yug” handed gifts from St. Nicholas for children from Odessa Regional orphanage for children “Svitanok”.
Favorable business environment and a clear legal framework allow public transport to thrive and to be attractive to passengers, investors and employees of transport companies themselves.
The sharp rise of the urban population and the economy of Beijing accompanied by a rapid increase in the number of private cars (since 2002 the increase amounted to 400 thousand cars per year), which led to the deterioration of traffic conditions.
On the October 8-9 in Astana with the participation of major Ukrainian and Kazakh companies and investors held a business forum, which was dedicated to the visit of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to Kazakhstan.
Urban transport management in Lagos, founded in 2003, has approved a strategic master plan for urban transport, which provides a very serious increase of transport networks in the city.
