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State-owned bus company in Moscow, Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mosgortrans (Russian: Мосгортранс) is a state-owned company operating bus and electrical bus networks in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast.[2] They operate the largest fleet of electric buses in Europe,[3] ahead of London.[4]
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Chronology of the names of individual urban passenger transport enterprises:
- since 1900 — Moscow City Railways (MGZHD), supervised tram transport
- Since 1924, it has been in charge of the Moscow Municipal Economy (MKH), overseeing bus transport.
- since 1930 — the Mosavtobus and Mostramvai trusts, since 1933 - the Mostrolleybus trust. Since 1938, all three trusts have been subordinated to the Moscow City Council's transport department.
- since 1954 — Department of Passenger Motor Transport (UPAT)
- since 1955 — Tram and Trolleybus Management (TTU)
Chronology of names of a single urban passenger transport company::
- Since 1958— it has been the Department of Passenger Transport of the Moscow City Executive Committee (UPTM)
- since 1980 — the Main Directorate of Urban Passenger Transport (Glavmosgortrans)
- Since 1989, it has been the Moscow Inter—Industry Production Association Mosgortrans (MMPO Mosgortrans).
- Since 1991 — Moscow Passenger Transport Committee (KPTM)
- Since 1992, it has been the Municipal Company Mosgortrans (MK Mosgortrans).
- Since 1994, it has been the state—owned Mosgortrans Company (Mosgortrans Group of Companies).
- since 1999 — Mosgortrans State Enterprise (GP Mosgortrans)
- since 2001 — Mosgortrans State Unitary Enterprise (SUE Mosgortrans)
The history of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans begins on July 31, 1958. On that day, by a decision of the Moscow City Executive Committee, the Moscow City Executive Committee's Passenger Transport Department (UPTM) was formed through the merger of the Tram and Trolleybus Department and the Passenger Motor Transport Department operating at that time. Thus, all three main types of ground mass public route transport in Moscow — bus, trolleybus, tram — were organizationally combined into a single production and technological complex. The newly formed transport company, the successor of which is the current State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans, has become Russia's largest operator of urban passenger transportation. The company inherited the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, awarded on September 6, 1947, to one of its predecessors, the Moscow Tram Administration, "for achievements in the restoration and development of the tram industry and in connection with the 800th anniversary of Moscow."[5]
The annual volume of UPTM transportation in 1960 was 2.669 billion passengers (72.6% of the total volume carried out by all modes of transport in the city), the fleet of vehicles numbered 5,800 units (1776 tram cars, 1360 trolleybuses and 2665 buses). At the time of its formation, UPTM consisted of 8 tram depots, 4 trolleybus and 7 bus fleets, a Track Service, a Traffic Service, a Traction substation Service, 4 repair plants (SVARZ, a trolleybus repair plant, an electromechanical tool factory and a termite switch plant) and other divisions.
In the early 1990s, Mosgortrans, like many other Russian transport companies, experienced significant difficulties. Due to the lack of financing, the quality of public transport services was falling sharply. The company's revenue also decreased significantly due to the large number of beneficiaries eligible for free travel and stowaways. It was only by the end of the 1990s that a way out of the crisis was found. Moscow buses, trolleybuses, and trams began to have conductors who controlled passenger fares on the busiest routes.; Programs for the purchase and modernization of rolling stock have been developed.
In 2003, Mosgortrans began switching to an automated fare control system (ASCS).
On December 28, 2009, Mosgortrans started operating its own minibuses. Fiat Ducato.[6] After their decommissioning, starting in 2017, minibuses of the brand entered the routes. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.
In 2010, the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans transported 1,637 million passengers, of which 1,045 million passengers were transported by bus.[7]
Starting in May 2016, the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans began transferring its routes to private trucking companies, but while retaining all the benefits and tickets available on Moscow public transport.
In October 2016, a unified network of free Wi-Fi in public transport was launched.[8]
In October 2017, a large-scale renovation of the routes of urban land passenger transport passing through the center of the capital took place. Routes on the Garden Ring, Tverskaya Zastava and Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment are affected.[9]
At the beginning of 2018, 72 routes of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans switched to a turnstile-free system of operation.[10]
In February 2019, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin provided data related to the demand for land transport in Moscow. According to Sergei Sobyanin, land transport has almost caught up with the Moscow Metro in terms of traffic volume (about 7.4 million trips per weekday).[11]
Since February 1, 2021, as part of measures to restructure the management of land transport and the possible corporatization of Mosgortrans or its liquidation, management of the tram system has been transferred to the State Unitary Enterprise Moscow Metro.
September 14, 2021 (in test mode),[12][13] and then on October 1, 2021, the on-demand transportation service "On the Way" was launched in TiNAO.[14] Later, the service was launched in Skolkovo.[15]
On May 1, 2025, the Mosgortrans team was awarded the Honorary Badge of the Russian Federation "For Success in Work" for achieving high performance in production activities.[16]
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Currently, all buses are delivered to Mosgortrans only in low-floor versions. The last high—floor buses were purchased in 2005, and the last trolleybuses in 2006, the last semi—low-floor buses were purchased in 2009, and the last trolleybuses in 2012.
Since 2014, low-floor trams of particularly large capacity (articulated) have been delivered.
In the late 2000s, three-section trams were tested in Moscow. Starting in 2015, new Pesa Fokstrot three-section trams began to arrive and run en masse at the Krasnopresnenskoye tram depot. Since March 2017, new Vityaz-M three-section trams have been arriving in Moscow, the features of which are silent running and low floor. These cars are equipped with the tram depot named after. Bauman and Oktyabrskoye depots, supplies to the depot are continuing. Rusakova. Trams of this model carry passengers in the northeastern, eastern, southeastern, southern and central parts of Moscow. Since June 2018, Vityaz-M trams have been arriving with an updated interior, while the capacity has increased from 60 seats to 64, and an additional storage area has been added. There are media screens in the cabin of each car, through which passengers receive up-to-date information about transfers, routes and stops in real time, as well as climate control systems, satellite navigation, video surveillance systems, free Wi-Fi, and USB connectors for charging mobile devices.[17]
The bus rolling stock is also being updated. By the end of 2018, 571 Euro-5 ecological class buses were delivered to Mosgortrans bus fleets, meeting the same comfort criteria as trams. Currently, "Mosgortrans" receives articulated buses "NefAZ-6299", on the basis of which it is planned to assemble articulated electric buses "KAMAZ-6292".
Electric buses
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The rolling stock is also represented by electric buses manufactured by KAMAZ and LiAZ plants (the latter supplies buses under the GAZ brand),[18] As of 20 August 2020, 455 electric buses have arrived in Moscow, 193 of which are in the North-Eastern branch and 262 in the Central branch, so three contracts for 2019 for electric buses are completely closed, and contracts for 2020 are also being executed. Since 15 July 2019, electric buses have been operating on the Sk route (now renumbered Sk1 and slightly changed in the Skolkovo Research Center area), since 10 August 2019 on route 107, since 9 September 2019 trolleybus route No. 42 has been completely transferred to electric buses and received the number t42, since 26 September 2019 route t25 has been transferred to the Tsentralny Branch, and on November 5, 2019, it was returned to the North-East Branch, in the summer of 2020, the route was returned to the Central Branch (Leningrad site). Thus, as of 20 August 2020, 20 routes are serviced by the Central Branch (Filevskaya and Leningradskaya sites). The contract for 2019 for the transfer of routes to electric bus service was closed, and route No. 271 remained, which was canceled on August 15, 2020. At the moment, contracts are being executed for the transfer of routes to electric bus service. In the SVAO, electric buses began operating on route No. 778, serviced by the North-East Branch, in the summer of 2020, the route was transferred to the Central Branch (Leningrad site). The data on electric buses is updated in real time, immediately after receiving the information. Since September 9, 2019, the trolleybus site of the North-East branch has become the first transport company in Moscow to completely abandon trolleybuses.[19] — The reason for this was the transfer of route No. 14 to the electric bus, and buses to route No. 41. Route 789 was transferred to the penultimate electric bus, route 38 was transferred to the last electric bus, the first one runs from Kholmogorskaya Street to the Botanic Garden Metro station, the second one runs from Rizhsky railway Station to Kitay-Gorod Metro station. In 2020, delivery of another 300 electric buses began, in addition, another batch of 300 electric buses was expected, however, after the replay of tenders for 2020, there will be no additional package and only 300 electric buses will be delivered — all of them will go to the Tsentralny branch: 200 units to the Leningrad site and 100 units to the main Davydov site. In 2020, a number of electric bus routes will be introduced, starting from the Khovrino Metro station and serviced by the Leningrad site of the Tsentralny branch. In the west of Moscow, charging stations at Filevsky Park were the first to be installed, and therefore, from 10 August 2019, bus route No. 107 started using electric buses.[20] Further charging was installed at the terminal stations Krylatskoye, Ozernaya Metro Station, Park Pobedy Metro Station, Kievsky Railway Station Square, as well as at the Udarnik Cinema stop. As of 01/25/2020, charging stations have been operating on Kievsky Railway Station Square, Krylatskoye metro station and Ozernaya Metro Station, charging stations on Victory Park Metro station and Udarnik Cinema bus stop have been operating since May 6, 2020, from the date of the launch of the t7 route. Some time after the restart to electric buses, the route will cancel the delayed U-turn through the Lomonosovsky Prospekt metro station, from Vorobyevsky Highway it will immediately turn onto Kosygina Street.
Minibuses
In addition to regular buses, Mosgortrans also uses Mercedes-Benz Sprinter minibuses. They operate on regular bus routes and in the same mode, using regular travel documents and retaining all benefits (except minibuses of the On-the-Way service). Some urban routes, where regular buses cannot pass, as well as on a number of routes, are serviced exclusively by minibuses on weekends. Travel on such buses is carried out only in seating areas, as evidenced by the booklet with information on the permissible passenger capacity and a reference to the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation (as amended on April 28, 2015).
In the past, Gazelle and Bychok minibuses operated in private service (without cash benefits) in some bus fleets. Soon they were written off and sold out across the regions of Russia. Minibuses were operated in 2009-2017 Fiat Ducato, purchased to operate on both existing and new shortened routes in addition to existing ones.[21] Since the middle of 2015, a massive write-off of Fiat Ducato minibuses has begun, due to their unclaimed passenger capacity in places where the busiest routes pass and the expiration of their service life. In 2017, the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans purchased 85 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter minibuses, which were delivered to all bus fleets with the exception of the 17th. The remaining 16 Fiat Ducato minibuses have been removed from the fleet balance and are used for official transportation.
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