International Conference on Sustainability and Climate Change

City railways – who are their passengers?

In this paper, the approaches to forecasting of passenger flows for new lines of the city railway are analyzed. The article analyzes the experience gained in designing of Moscow central diameters, in the modeling and analysis of their integration with the Moscow Metro and ground urban passenger transport. The main attention is paid to how modern telecommunication technologies make it possible to measure various movements of mobile subscribers, who are passengers, quite accurately. It is the development of telecommunication technologies that is changing the approaches to solving transport problems. What used to be seen as a goal for most transport tasks and was a forecasting goal has now become raw data and can be accurately measured. The article considers what the analysis of transport flows in a modern city now looks like.