water and rails:rails

RAILS What is the state of rail transport systems in St. Petersburg now? Which potential it has?

Train

Opened at 1837 Country railways carry 116,6 mln passengers and 3,2 mln passengers by highspeed line per

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history 1900nowdays

Source: http://www.aroundspb.ru/

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country train system

Legend exasting line highspeed line unused part of route city capital Source: OpenStreetMap, ar2012.rzd.ru

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local train system

Legend train line city

Source: OpenStreetMap, ar2012.rzd.ru

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Train

local train&country houses route length 10 378 km 75% trucking industry and 40% ridership of ferry system in Russia North-Western region 655 stations

Legend train line building industrial areas

Source: OpenStreetMap

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country train system& industrial areas

Legend train line building industrial areas

Source: OpenStreetMap

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Legend industrial area building railway station unused railway station station airport Source: OpenStreetMap, pereyezd.ru

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train&industrial areas 19 000 ga indastrial area 13,6% ﾑ（ty area

Legend industril area building railway station unused railway station station airport Source: OpenStreetMap, http://kvs.spb.ru/

Train

industrial areas

Legend industrial area used indastrial area

Source: OpenStreetMap, http://gov.spb.ru/

Train

railway stations

Moskovskiy 1847-1851, arch. Ton

Finlyandskiy 1870, arch. Kupinskiy

Vitebskiy 1838, arch. Brzhozowskiy

Ladozhskiy 2003 arch. Yaveyn (studio 44) Baltiyskiy railway station 1857, arch. Krakau Source: http://www.aroundspb.ru/

Varshvskiy 1852-1853 arch. Skarzhensky unuse, now it a mall

Tram

Opened at 1907 Carry 600 000 passengers per day There are 43 routes

Tram

history

First tram - tram on ice.

In 1895, on the ice of the Neva was placed first tram .

Owner of omnibus had a monopoly on the carriage of passengers on the roads of the city, caused the tram has been put on ice.

Tram

history 1907-2007 1989 – 340 km (the largest tram network in the world) 1995 - 305 km 2000 - 285 km 2005 - 268 km 2011 – 239 km

1907-2007 Source: www.piter-tram.de Pobert Leichsenring

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existing situation

Legend industril area building storage demolished lines used line projected LRT line technical lines

Source: OpenStreetMap, transport.orgp.spb.ru, www.piter-tram.de Pobert Leichsenring, http://www.fontanka.ru/2011/09/23/101/

Tram

routes

Source: http://www.aroundspb.ru/

Speed, km/h

Dedicated tram line Dedicated bus-tram line

Source: «Study of the quality of urban public transport of St. Petrsburg», V. Solov’eva, 2015

Tram

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Tram

facts

The reasons:

lack of funding, low priority tram traffic

The problems:

low speed (11.3 km/h) worn out by 60%, worn rails, need repair

Source: http://www.aroundspb.ru/

The solutions:

increase funding tram system, purchase of new trams, repair of rails, design and construction of new lines

Subway

Start to buld in 1941 Transported 770 mln passangers per day Deepest subway in the world

Subway history

Source: www.metro.spb.ru, http://arent.spb.ru/info/metro-/hmetro.html

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Legend line projected lines stop

Source: OpenStreetMap, www.metro.spb.ru

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Subway

historical map 5 lines

67 stations (11 stations are combined with railway stations) 7 transfer stations length of lines: 113,6 km

Legend in 1955 in 1970 in 1984 in 1991 to nowdays

Source: OpenStreetMap, www.metro.spb.ru

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Rails system availability

Legend R=1000 m R = 500 m

Rails system

facts

Avtovo most beautiful station

Closed station Dachnoe

Devyatkino village station

Vosstaniya most beautiful station

Al. Nevskogo - Elizarovskaya longest stage (4,7 km)

Rails system

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Source: OpenStreetMap, research for Water&Rail studio, Y, Rodikova, V, Solov’eva, N, Morozova

SWOT-analysis

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extensive tram network extensive rail network extensive subway network many users connectivity

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bad technical condition bad/no overlan tram/bus/metro bad servis (slow, infrequent, no/lack of night transport) few dedicated tram lines airport disconnected some parts of city are not covered

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tram network can be upgrated nomber of users can grow rail network can be upgrated / hi-speed

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expensive maintenance low investment by goverment urban sprawl / greenfield development

SWOT-analysis

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upgrating existing network connect airport

improved servise will attract more users: - comfortable pricing system - reliable - frequent - not expensive - good coverage

selective upgrating attracting private investments many users, attract combat urban sprawl improve connectivity between different transportion modalities

costs and size of network requires priorotizng upgrades selective

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Сonclusions and proposals

1. Extensive system of public transport don’t use effective (especially tram) 2. System need multimodal hub 3. Indastrial areas need redevelopment 4. Network of public transport must be created in the system 5. Can Saint-Petersburg to became a «Capital of trams»?

Rails in art

Rails in cinema

Rails in cinema

Brother, 1997, A. Balabanov

Proryv, 2005, V. Lukin

Заблудившийся трамвай The stray tram Шел я по улице незнакомой И вдруг услышал вороний грай, И звоны лютни, и дальние громы, Передо мною летел трамвай.

Walking an unfamiliar street, Of a sudden I heard ravens cawing And the sounds of lutes and distant thunder -

Как я вскочил на его подножку, Было загадкою для меня, В воздухе огненную дорожку Он оставлял и при свете дня.

In front of me a tram was flying.

How I jumped onto the footplate Was a mystery to me, It scored the air with a trail of fire Even in the light of day.

Мчался он бурей темной, крылатой, Он заблудился в бездне времен… Остановите, вагоновожатый, Остановите сейчас вагон. Поздно. Уж мы обогнули стену, Мы проскочили сквозь рощу пальм, Через Неву, через Нил и Сену Мы прогремели по трем мостам. И, промелькнув у оконной рамы, Бросил нам вслед пытливый взгляд Нищий старик, — конечно тот самый, Что умер в Бейруте год назад. Где я? Так томно и так тревожно Сердце мое стучит в ответ: Видишь вокзал, на котором можно В Индию Духа купить билет?

Н. Гумилев

Rails

A dark winged storm, it rushed And lost its way in the abyss of time …

Stop, conductor, stop The carriage right now.

Too late. We had already turned the corner, shot through a grove of palms, Across the Neva, the Nile, the Seine, We thundered over three bridges.

And, appearing briefly at a window, An old pauper threw us a look Of curiosity - of course, that very same who died in Beirut a year back.

Where am I? Languid and troubled, My heart beats in reply: You see the station at which you can Buy a ticket to India of the Soul?

N. Gumilev

Valentina Solov’yeva Nadezhda Morozova Yuliya Rodikova Evgeny Smirnov