1. "Megacity on a Human Scale“, Moscow Urban
Forum, December 4–5 2012
Moscow: Looking
to the Future -
Mobility
Pierre LACONTE
President, Foundation for the Urban Environment,
Past-president, International Society of City and Regional Planners
Tuesday, December 11, 12

2. Competitive distance of the high
speed train: 900 km
High speed rail today.
Tuesday, December 11, 12

3. SHEREMETYEVO
m
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Leningradsky
high speed rail
Kursky
today station
connections
high speed line (speed up to 300km
airport express
Leningradsky and Kursky station
VNUKOVO
airport express station linked to M5
metro 5 ring
DOMODODEVO
Tuesday, December 11, 12

4. High speed rail
tomorrow.
Competitive distance of the high
speed train: 900 km
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.
Tuesday, December 11, 12

5. high speed rail
tomorrow
SHEREMETYEVO
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
m
ka
ka
bypass that crosses the city.
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Two new passing stations
Komsomol’skaya
Studencheskaya
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
VNUKOVO city at Komsomolskaya.
(proposal Secchi- Vigano) to
high speed line (speed up
300km/h)
airport express
New High speed station
airport express station linked to
M5
DOMODODEVO
metro 5 ring
Tuesday, December 11, 12

6. Dubna
Jaroslavl
Tver
Dmitrov
Sergiev Posad Regional rail
Klin
Velikije Luki
Lobnja Vladimir Improvement of
Kryukovo Pushkino existing rails for
Voskhod Dedovsk Orekhovo-
Kupavna
regional
Odintsovo
Zuevo
integration:
Korenevo
Kubinka
Golitsyno
Aprelevka Ramensko
Kurovskoe
reuse of
Smolensk
Podolsk Domodode
vo
ye industrial rail
Naro-Fominsk Murom
and railway ring,
Checkhov
Voskresensk at good
Zhilevo
frequency
(proposal Secchi-
Brjansk
Vigano)
Rjazan
Tula
Mosow mkad Tambov
Intercity line
Intercity station (one stop every 30
Km)
Tuesday, December 11, 12

7. Regional rail in connection
with metro, one of the best
in the world
SHEREMETYEVO
Moscow should not be
the end-station, but
trains will connect
different urban areas
without passing
through the city center.
m
ka
New interchange
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stations could connect
the ring stations with
the radial metro going
out of Moscow.
metro 5 ring
old industrial railway ring
Reused for passengers
regional railway system
(one stop every 3 km)
new transit station along
the new passenger railway ring
Tuesday, December 11, 12

8. Highways (Moscow city masterplan)
A new highway ring into the city
Exhisting road system
M8
m
ka
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m
ka
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M7
M9
M1
M5
M2
Exhisting situation Moscow city masterplan
Tuesday, December 11, 12

9. How to choose? What criteria?
• 1
Space savings
• 2
Health savings
• 3
Saving the liveable city
Tuesday, December 11, 12

10. Space savings
If 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

11. Health savings
The cost of additional health care entailed by physical
inactivity as estimated by the UK National Centre for Chronic
Disease Prevention.
Tuesday, December 11, 12

12. Saving the liveable
city
Mobility makes Liveable
Cities and Enjoyable
Cities – poster by
Friedensreich
Hundertwasser for UITP
(1995).
Tuesday, December 11, 12