Main article: Petersburg
Plantain (transport card)
Main article: Podorozhnik (transport card)
Unified city parking space of St. Petersburg (EGPP)
Main article: Unified city parking space of St. Petersburg (EGPP)
Latitudinal highway of high-speed traffic (SHMSD)
Main article: Latitudinal highway of high-speed traffic (SHMSD)
Chronicle
2024
Petersburg signed a contract for the development of an IT system for taxis
On October 24, 2024, it became known that the state government institution "Transportation Organizer" of St. Petersburg signed a contract with PJSC Rostelecom to create an information system for a passenger taxi worth ₽37,4 million. The system is scheduled to launch in early 2025. Read more here.
A new Levashovo airport was completely built in St. Petersburg for 41 billion rubles
St. Petersburg The construction of the new Levashovo airport was completed, investments in which amounted to ₽41 billion Gosstroynadzor in July 2024 issued a permit for the commissioning of the fourth, final stage of the facility. More here
Biometrics and geometries to pay for travel. How the digitalization of transport systems is taking place in St. Petersburg
In mid-July 2024, it became known that St. Petersburg new systems for paying for travel in public were being introduced as part of the digitalization program. transport One of them provides for the use of geolocation data.
According to Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia Dmitry Bakanov, St. Petersburg is one of the Russian leaders in terms of the development of new technologies in transport. As of mid-2024, approximately 98% of passengers in the Northern capital pay for travel electronically. Various options are available: electronic card "Podorozhnik," bank cards ("Unified card of St. Petersburg") and payment by mobile phone. Payment means are also implemented using a mobile application and through the SBP.
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Another option will be the "open loop" payment technology without expensive validators. This system works using geolocation on a smartphone: a special application monitors the routes and speed of the user's movement around the city by geometry during the day. For each path that coincides with the movement of public transport, a tariff is determined, after which the money is debited from the linked bank card. True, according to Bakanov, the work of such a service is complicated by the binding to geodata.
 | We had big plans for Moscow, but due to well-known events in a number of regions, the geometry is muted. The first subject in the end was Yaroslavl. Now everything is expanding, - said the Deputy Minister of Transport. |  |
At the same time, St. Petersburg, together with the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Digital Development, is working on the introduction of fare payment using biometrics. For these purposes, within the framework of a trilateral agreement with Sberbank and Bank Russia, the metro turnstiles are being modernized to read biometric information.[1]
2 trillion rubles were pledged for the development of the transport system of St. Petersburg until 2029
In mid-February 2024, the administration of St. Petersburg presented an updated draft program for the development of the urban transport system. It says about the allocation of 1.7 trillion rubles from the city budget. Expenses in the amount of 300 million rubles from extrabudgetary sources are also planned.
With the money included in the program for the development of the transport system of St. Petersburg, it is planned to build roads in residential areas, create understudies of the main highways and interchanges, and update the rolling stock of public transport.
As noted by the publication "Fontanka," the project includes the construction of the Big Smolensk Bridge and the Latitudinal Highway of High-Speed Traffic (SHMSD) and seven metro stations. For maintenance and cleaning of roads without tenders, it is planned to reorganize city enterprises into budgetary institutions. By 2029, it is planned to maintain the share of regulatory road surfaces at 71.2%.
It is planned to gradually update the rolling stock of the metro and ground transport. For example, in the metro, reconstruct escalators and trains. And for ground transport, purchase new trolleybuses, buses and trams, build parks for gas-powered buses in Kamenka and Gorelovo. Recall that in October last year , the construction of a fleet of electric buses on Rzhevka began. About 128 billion rubles will be allocated for the modernization of the ground transport fleet and the reconstruction of contact networks.
Work with bicycle paths will continue, by 2030 it is planned to create more than 500 new routes. In 2023 , three bike paths with a total length of 6.6 km appeared in St. Petersburg, another 10 km is supposed to be built in 2024.
At the same time, the document attributed a three-stage priority system, where first there is a pedestrian, then public transport, then cars. The passport also includes information according to which 66.2% of Petersburgers are satisfied with the state of the city's transport system. The target is 89.4%.[2]
2023: A magnetic cushion train will be built near St. Petersburg
The Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering (MIT), commissioned by the government of the Leningrad Region, has developed a technical design for the route for magnetic cushion trains. The press service of the institute announced this in mid-October 2023. Read more here.
2022: Road cameras helped reduce the number of accidents (-16%) and mortality (-34%) in them in St. Petersburg
In 2022, the number of accidents in St. Petersburg decreased by 16%, and the number of deaths in them - by 34%. Such results were achieved, including thanks to the installation of automated photofixation systems, the press service of Smolny reported. Read more here.
2020: St. Petersburg - in the top 10 cities of the world in the number of car sharing cars
1981: Melnikov's scooter wheel
1911: Aerobuer V.A. Lebedeva
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1908: Steam two-tier tram
Against its background, the children of the owner of the camera, the merchant Vladimir Melitonovich Valuisky, originally from Yelets, were photographed.]]
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