Simetra specialists will help create a transport model of Tashkent

2022: Tashkent Transport Model Plan

Experts SIMETRA will act as supervisors for the project development of the urban public transport Tashkent agglomeration. Within the framework of cooperation, a transport model will be created and measures will be developed to improve the existing system of movement. The company announced this on August 25, 2022.

As of August 2022, only metro and buses serve passengers in Tashkent, and the role of commuter trains is insignificant. There is a large shortage of rolling stock. The administration plans to increase the mobility of citizens, radically update the transport fleet, bring several hundred electric buses to the streets.

The goal of the project is to develop the transport system of agglomeration more efficiently, relying on scientific research and accurate calculations. The customer of the work is the project office for the integrated development of the transport system of the city of Tashkent, the project is developing under the patronage of the Ministry of Transport and Khokimiyat of the city of Tashkent.

The local team of transport engineers will be strengthened by Christian Bettger, Head of the Transport Modeling Working Group, Deputy Chairman of the Association of Transport Engineers and Director of International Sales at SIMETRA, as well as Vladimir Valdin, co-author of methodological and training manuals in the field of urban and suburban transportation, director of public transport solutions at SIMETRA.

Our task is to transfer expertise and competencies to colleagues from Tashkent so that local engineers can independently apply the experience gained in the future, working with the transport systems of the cities of Uzbekistan. This international cooperation will bring transport planning and modeling in the country to a qualitatively different level, "said Christian Bettger.

Under the guidance of invited experts, a team of local specialists has already conducted a number of surveys and measurements of traffic intensity and passenger traffic and is preparing to conduct the second stage of a large-scale study, including a social survey of the inhabitants of the agglomeration.

The city has a slightly modified archaic Soviet system based on one-time tariff fees. The administration plans to move away from the traditional "transportation as a service" approach to the concept of "transport as the basis of urban mobility," and starting in late 2022, begin a phased transfer of ground public transport to gross contracts, as the most transparent system for forming a transport assignment. We carry out the preparatory stage and analysis, work out all the necessary documentation, develop regulations, negotiate with carriers, "Vladimir Valdin explained.

Close cooperation and exchange of technologies and developments between the SIMETRA team and the Tashkent Department of Transport began in 2020. SIMETRA equipped the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Institute for the Design, Construction and Operation of Highways (TADI) with the PTV software complex, conducted training on working with software for specialized specialists. The software was used to develop a transport master plan for Tashkent, study transport and logistics problems and plan the development of regions and cities of Uzbekistan.

The experience and expertise of the involved supervisors from SIMETRA will allow us to develop the most effective measures to improve the mobility of citizens, calculate the transport effect of the planned actions, justify the new route network and the planned costs of reforming the ground transport system, and reasonably apply for funding to the city and the state in order to use budget funds as efficiently as possible, - said Murod Abidov, Director of the project office.

2020: Delivery of PTV Visum and PTV Vissim

SIMETRA, a competence center in the field of transport flow modeling and transport planning, has delivered a set of PTV software systems to the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan. This became known on December 9, 2020. The solutions will help the Center for the Study of Transport and Logistics Problems organized under the Ministry to carry out transport planning processes in the regions and cities of Uzbekistan.

The delivery includes the most popular software products of the manufacturer: PTV Visum and PTV Vissim. In addition, the EnViVer Pro ecology module and the LISA + module for traffic lights were delivered.

2020 has become very important for the development of the public transport system in the country. Many measures were taken to modernize the system, make it more flexible and convenient for citizens: in particular, two metro stations and the first stage of the above-ground ring metro were commissioned in Tashkent. Fulfilling the order of the President of Uzbekistan, we are working to improve the transport situation in cities. In this work, we use software products that allow us to more gracefully solve difficult transport problems: PTV Vissim and PTV Visum are able to calculate the matrix of population movement, and the EnViVer Pro module helps to monitor the environmental situation. Tashkent became the first city in the CIS that will be able to fully evaluate all the possibilities of EnViVer Pro, "said Murod Abidov, Director of the Center for the Study of Transport and Logistics Development Problems of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

{{quote 'SIMETRA, as a provider of PTV Traffic Suite software products in Russia and the CIS countries, is not the first time cooperating with Tashkent institutions. We conducted training with PTV programs for specialists from Tashkent, delivered sets of PTV programs to the Tashkent Institute for the Design, Construction and Operation of Highways (TAI), helped the Tashkent Department of Transport implement a large-scale project to develop a transport master plan. We have no doubt that our joint work will allow the transport system of the cities of the Republic of Uzbekistan to develop faster and more harmoniously, "said Christian Böttger, Development Director of SIMETRA. }}