"Megacity on a Human Scale“, Moscow Urban Forum, December 4–5 2012

Moscow: Lookingto the Future -

MobilityPierre LACONTE

President, Foundation for the Urban Environment,Past-president, International Society of City and Regional Planners

Tuesday, December 11, 12

Competitive distance of the high speed train: 900 km

High speed rail today.

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high speed line (speed up to 300km/h)

airport express

Leningradsky and Kursky station

airport express station linked to M5

metro 5 ring

high speed rail today station connections

mkad

DOMODODEVO

VNUKOVO

SHEREMETYEVO

Leningradsky

Kursky

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Competitive distance of the high speed train: 900 km

High speed rail tomorrow.

Moscow will be then strategically connected with Europe (Helsinki in the north, Berlin in the west). It also serves the main regional capitals close to Moscow.

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high speed line (speed up to 300km/h)airport expressNew High speed station

airport express station linked to M5

metro 5 ring

Komsomol’skaya

mkadmkad

DOMODODEVO

VNUKOVO

SHEREMETYEVO

Studencheskaya

high speed rail tomorrow

The line from Berlin merges with the one from Kiev before entering the city, then using the south railway ring to reach the north-south bypass that crosses the city.Two new passing stations could improve the north south/east-west passage : one station in the south-west (Studencheskaya close to the CBD Moskva City), the second in the center of the city at Komsomolskaya.

(proposal Secchi- Vigano)

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Intercity line

Intercity station (one stop every 30 Km)

Sergiev PosadDmitrovKlin

Voskhod

Naro-Fominsk

Kubinka

Checkhov Zhilevo

Voskresensk

Orekhovo-Zuevo

Kurovskoe

Dedovsk

Kryukovo

AprelevkaGolitsyno

Odintsovo

Podolsk Domododevo

Ramenskoye

Korenevo

Kupavna

PushkinoLobnja

Brjansk

Smolensk

Velikije Luki

Tver

Tambov

Rjazan

Vladimir

Jaroslavl

Dubna

Tula

Murom

Regional railImprovement of existing rails for regional integration:reuse of industrial rail and railway ring, at good frequency

(proposal Secchi- Vigano)

Mosow mkad

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Moscow should not be the end-station, but trains will connect different urban areas without passing through the city center.New interchange stations could connect the ring stations with the radial metro going out of Moscow.

mkad

SHEREMETYEVO

regional railway system(one stop every 3 km)

new transit station alongthe new passenger railway ring

old industrial railway ringReused for passengers

metro 5 ring

Regional rail in connection with metro, one of the best in the world

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M1

M9

M8

M7

M5

M2

A new highway ring into the city

Exhisting road system

mkad

Exhisting situation Moscow city masterplan

mkad

Highways (Moscow city masterplan)

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How to choose? What criteria?• 1 Space savings• 2 Health savings• 3 Saving the liveable city

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Space savingsIf one takes the space consumption by a pedestrian as the benchmark, the car takes up about 18 times more space than a pedestrian, as it moves, but it requires parking for the time it does not move, i.e. for some 90 % of its life cycle. Space consumption therefore has an area x time dimension. The space consumption generated by traffic on new highways is nearly 100x higher than by rail transport.Tuesday, December 11, 12

The cost of additional health care entailed by physical inactivity as estimated by the UK National Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention.

Health savings

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Saving the liveable city

Mobility makes Liveable Cities and Enjoyable Cities – poster by Friedensreich Hundertwasser for UITP (1995).

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