22 April, 2024
The analytical company Marketing Logic, based on Rosstat's open data, its own data showcase and geoinformation technologies, has compiled a rating of Russian million-plus cities in terms of accessibility of public transport infrastructure for residents. The list was headed by St. Petersburg with walking distance (up to 500 m) of public transport stops for 98.5% of residents, and Omsk closes, where 9.5% of residents live further than 500 m from public transport stops.
Marketing Logic, an analytical company specializing in geoinformation technologies and data analysis, has prepared a study of Russian cities with a population of over one million people. Within the administrative boundaries of each of the 16 million-plus cities, analysts calculated the proportion of residents living within 500 and 1000 meters to a public transport stop. Stops of all major types of route transport were taken into account: buses, electric buses, trolleybuses, trams, as well as metro stations. Taxi stops were not included in the rating.
All calculations were conducted in the Atlas geoinformation system: the platform allocated all accessibility zones within a radius of 500 and 1000 m from each stop to separate polygons, after which analysts calculated the proportion of residents living in these accessibility zones. Subsequently, the cities were ranked according to this parameter from the maximum value to the minimum.
| City | Proportion of residents within 500 m of a public transport stop within 1000 m | ||
| 1 | Saint Petersburg | 98,46% | 99,95% |
| 2 | Rostov-on-Don | 95,00% | 99,87% |
| 3 | Ekaterinburg | 94,85% | 99,77% |
| 4 | Ufa | 94,43% | 99,71% |
| 5 | Nizhny Novgorod | 94,35% | 99,77% |
| 6 | Krasnoyarsk/td> | 93,79% | 99,44% |
| 7 | Moscow | 93,49% | 94,43% |
| 8 | Samara | 92,98% | 99,75% |
| 9 | Chelyabinsk | 92,76% | 99,85% |
| 10 | Krasnodar | 92,42% | 99,93% |
| 11 | Volgograd | 92,19% | 99,62% |
| 12 | Novosibirsk | 91,45% | 99,65% |
| 13 | Perm | 91,40% | 99,59% |
| 14 | Voronezh | 90,99% | 99,81% |
| 15 | Kazan | 90,77% | 99,32% |
| 16 | Omsk | 90,54% | 99,87% |
The TOP 3 Russian megacities with maximum walkability (up to 500 m) to public transport stops for residents included St. Petersburg (98.46%), Rostov-on-Don (95%) and Yekaterinburg (94.85%). The TOP 3 cities with minimal walkability included Omsk (90.54%), Kazan (90.77%), Voronezh (90.99%).
Moscow is in 7th place in the middle of the ranking: for 93.49% of Muscovites, the nearest public transport stop is no further than 500 meters from home. At the same time, in the capital the share of those who live further than 1000 meters from a public transport stop is higher than in other cities in the rating - 5.57%.
On average, 93% of residents of a Russian metropolis live within walking distance (up to 500 m) from a public transport stop. If you increase the radius to 1000 meters, then 99% of residents already fall within it. For cities from 500 thousand inhabitants to a million, the shares differ slightly: 94% and 99%, respectively.
Moscow is in 7th place in the middle of the rating: for 93.49% of Muscovites, the nearest public transport stop is no further than 500 meters from home. At the same time, the share of those who live more than 1000 meters from a public transport stop in the capital is higher than in other cities of the rating — 5.57%.
On average, 93% of residents of the Russian megapolis live within walking distance (up to 500 m) from a public transport stop. If we increase the radius to 1000 meters, then 99% of the inhabitants fall into it. For cities from 500 thousand inhabitants to a million, the shares differ slightly: 94% and 99%, respectively.
"In general, as our research shows, the public transport infrastructure, if we are talking about the walkability of stops, is very well developed. We almost do not see cities with accessibility of less than 90%, i.e. for the vast majority of citizens, stops are 500 meters away and closer. If we exclude cottage settlements and elite residential complexes from the sample, where residents mostly drive private cars, then the share will be even higher. At the same time, it should be emphasized that our study shows a high potential availability, because the grid of roads and stops are only two of the necessary conditions, the transport itself is important, its schedule, regularity, and convenience of payment. Nevertheless, our data is available, and we are ready to provide them if someone from the city administrations or transport organizers wants to use them to develop or optimize public transport in Russian cities," says Dmitry Galkin, managing partner and CEO of Marketing Logic.