City of Skopje

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City of Skopje
Workshop 03. - 05. June 2008 Skopje TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN SKOPJE NEW
APROACH FOR BETTER QUALITY OF SERVICE Prof. Dr.
NIKOLA KRSTANOSKI University St. Kliment
Ohridski, BITOLA Faculty for Technical
Sciences Department for Transport and Traffic
Engineering
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City of Skopje

• Quick facts Skopje the macedonian capital
• 7088 ha
• Rapid development after the earthquake in 1963
• 506 926 inhabitants in 2005 (25 of the total
  population)
• 202 Passenger cars/1000 inhabitants

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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN SKOPJE TODAY
• Public PT operator JSP Skopje established in
  1948
• Until 1990, the only operator in Skopje
• In 1989 amendments to the Law for road transport
  deregulation of the PT
• Since 1990 public transport company private
  operators

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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN SKOPJE TODAY
• Three PT operators
• JSP Skopje public the biggest operator
• Sloboda prevoz private
• Mak Ekspres private
• 83,75 of the lines (67) operated by JSP Skopje
• 16,25 of the lines (13) operated by the private
  operators

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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN SKOPJE TODAY
• JSP Skopje
• 1290 employees
• 380 vehicles
• 250 vehicles operating daily
• Average fleet age 17,4 years
• 45 000 000 passengers per year (compared to 150
  000 000 passengers per year in 1989)
• 15 000 000 km per year
• Commercial speed 18,5 km/h

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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN SKOPJE TODAY
• Private operators
• 250 individual transporters organized in two
  private association
• 250 vehicles
• 27,27 years average bus age
• 13 lines (7 urban 6 suburban and rural)
• Rented maintenance facilities

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Suburban and rural lines operated by JSP Skopje
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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT THE PROBLEMS
• The deregulation of PT a step back
• No established policy, no objectives to be
  achieved, no vision for future development of PT
  in Skopje
• very poorly planned and put into practice (no
  well-thought standards and criteria for providing
  of PT service)
• The result
• chaos and continuous deterioration of public
  transport services over the next 18 years

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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT TODAY
• THE PROBLEMS
• Lack of policy for future sustainable development
  of the urban transport system in Skopje as a
  whole and PT system specifically
• Currently
• the main planning of the transport system is
  within the general urban plan
• this process must be improved and existing
  deficiencies to be overcome

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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT TODAY
• THE PROBLEMS
• Business environment within the PT market
• Currently
• - deregulated market with examples where direct
  competition between different service providers
  exists (fight for passengers, no integrated
  services, no integrated ticketing)
• - well-defined standards and criteria for doing
  a business in the PT are needed and their strict
  application is a must

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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT TODAY
• THE PROBLEMS
• Problem of financing
• - bad business environment - deterioration of
  services -continuous loss of passengers
  financial exhaustion of public PT company
• - no subsidies of any kind for PT providers a
  rare case in Europe
• - recent huge increase of fuel prices as well as
  the other operational costs additional
  financial burden

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Suburban and rural lines operated by JSP Skopje
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• PUBLIC TRANSPORT TODAY
• THE PROBLEMS
• Deterioration of the quality of service loss of
  passengers
• - very old vehicle fleet
• problems with the service reliability
  (breakdowns, traffic congestion)
• poor passenger information
• low commercial speed long travel times
• un-convenient ticketing and fare system
• pollution from PT vehicles

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Suburban and rural lines operated by JSP Skopje
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Mobility and modal share total and by PT

1965 1977 1998 2018
Inhabitants 220 000 385 000 545 000 615 000?
of trips by PT 68 45 34? 45?
PT mobility per capita (trips per year) 201 290 193? 340?
Total mobility per capita (trips per year) 295 644 567? 756?
Total mobility (trips per year) 64 970 000 248 111 111 308 823 529? 464 666 667?
Total number of trips by PT per year 44 311 000 111 650 000 105 000 000? 209 100 000?
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• OBJECTIVES
• to increase the modal share of PT to increase
  the attractiveness of PT to improve the PT
  service quality
• TARGET GROUP
• the existing and the potential PT users

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• PLANNED MEASURES
• To develop a strategy for development of
  sustainable urban transport system in Skopje
• (to be developed soon as a specific activity
  within FP7 project RENESSAINCE)
• To develop a strategy for development of PT
  system in Skopje
• - The strategy includes solutions to the problems
  of PT organization market definition,
  financing, quality of service, etc.)
• (strategy has been already done its enforcing
  is to start soon)

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• PLANNED MEASURES
• To improve the quality of service
• - renewal of the vehicle fleet
• (the government has already approved purchase of
  50 new buses financing from the state budget)
• - introduction of AVL system (Automated Vehicle
  Location) in other to improve service
  reliability and service quality
• (in the process is the approval - demonstration
  project is planned with in the FP7 project
  RENESSAINCE)

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• PLANNED MEASURES
• To improve the quality of service
• - introduction of real-time passenger
  information
• (demonstration project is planned with in the
  FP7 project RENESSAINCE)
• - introduction of smart ticketing based on
  integrated fare system for all PT service
  providers
• - introduction of Light Rail Transit for better
  service faster, greater capacity, more
  environmentally friendly, greater comfort
• (the project activities in progress - 3 1
  lines planned)

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• PLANNED MEASURES
• To reduce the pollution from PT vehicles
• - conversion of transit diesel vehicles to CNG
• (The public PT company JSP SKOPJE has already
  converted 30 vehicles to CNG more conversions
  will be done with in the FP7 project
  RENESSAINCE)
• - introduction of electric powered LRT vehicles
  the project activities in progress

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• IMPLEMENATION PROBLEMS
• lack of sufficient financing sources
• political environment in the country and in the
  region
• lack of capacities (institutional and human)
• public awareness

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• COOPERATION
• Department for Traffic and Transport
  Engineering, University St. Kliment Ohridski,
  Bitola
• Within the FP7 project RENESSAINCE cooperation
  with 27 partners from Italy, Great Britain,
  Netherlands, Poland and Bulgaria

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• EXPECTED RESULTS
• to improve of the overall transport system in
  Skopje
• (less traffic congestion, less pollution, less
  time loss, better environment)
• to increase the attractiveness and the quality
  of service of the PT in Skopje
• (better modal share, increased number of public
  transport passengers,
• lessen pressure of private automobile, better
  environment)
• to meet the future demand for urban travel by
  planning PT modes with higher performance and
  capacity features

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• NEXT STEPS
• to implement the strategy for PT development in
  Skopje
• to develop the plan for sustainable urban
  transport system
• to introduce the AVL system
• to introduce the real-time passenger information
  system
• to introduce integrated fare system and smart
  ticketing
• to convert more PT buses to CNG
• to introduce the LRT in Skopje