Urban Transportation Policy Program

INCEPTION REPORT

Transport Department of the Capital city

Senior specialist Mr. E.BAYARTSpecialist Mrs. SH.OYUMAA

2014.04.16

Ulaanbaatar city

Current situation of public transport 1

2

Urban transport projects

3

Main problems of public transport

4

CONTENTS

Long term plan of UB City Public Transport

Outline of Ulaanbaatar City Established in : 1639

Population : 1.2 million

Density : 229 persons/km2

Area : 4,704.4 km2 

Current situation and problems of public transport in Ulaanbaatar city

Urban public transport service provider

organizations integrate and improve the

capacity of firms by enlarging and fewer small

bus strategy.

Current situation of public transportation in Ulaanbaatar city

Ulaanbaatar city public transportation service starts at 06:30 AM to 22:30 PM along through approved routes and schedules.

2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

52 5460

66 6667

53

44 4650

1319 19 20 18

The number of public transport routes

Main routes Assisting routes /microbus/

Suburban routes

The number of public transport routes

2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

947 893 943 1020 1048

51 47 47 58 66

17091235 970 968 885

511

566658 734 649

Number of vehicles in public transport

Taxi

Microbus

Trolleybus

Bus

Urban public transport service provider organizations integrate and improve the capacity of

firms by enlarging and fewer small bus strategy.

Current situation of public transportation in Ulaanbaatar city

Vehicle types in Ulaanbaatar

Trolley Medium capacity buses Small capacity buses TaxiHigh capacity buses

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

152.3 153.2 154.4156.2 193 199

220.7 234.7 236 262.8

Passenger of public transport (million people)

Passengers

БҮРТГЭЛ ХЯНАЛТЫН СТАНЦУУДЫН БАЙРШИЛ

CONTROL SYSTEM OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT BUSES

Commissioned in 2002, the accounting control system consists of the following sections.

• MT -150 (mini transmitter) – in the all bus

• Registration stations - 51

• High power transmission station-2

• Central system and servers , software…

Controlling systemRunning smoothly is very low

Data of public transportation№ Data Value

2 Number of motor vehicles /Ulaanbaatar city/ 375 000

3Number of motor vehicles /Public transport/

Bus 1048Trolleybus 66Microbus 885Taxi 649total 2648

4 Roads length /asphalts/ 427 km

5 Public transportation routes length 4414 km

6 Average route length 31.08 km

7 No. of bus station 596

8

Public transport fare

Bus 1 passenger – 500 ₮= 0.28 $

9 Trolleybus 1 passenger – 300 ₮= 0.17 $

10 Microbus 1 passenger – 500 ₮= 0.28 $

11 Taxi 1 km – 700 ₮= 0.4 $

12 Passengers262,8 million.persons

/2013 year/

13 Passengers in a day 720.000

14Highway, subway

None

Average Daily Passenger Volume of Peace Avenue (SL-4) West-East

-1,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0007,0008,0009,000

10,000

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 2 3 4 5

Hour

Pas

seng

er

Cars Micro bus Small Bus Large Bus Small Rigid Truck

Average Daily Traffic Volume of Peace Avenue (West-East)

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200

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

1,600

1,800

2,000

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1 2 3 4 5

Hour

Uni

t

Cars Micro bus Small Bus Large Bus Light Truck

Тээврийн хэрэгслийн нягтрал Public transport Private car

Number of vehicles 2 % 98%

Passengers 60% 35%

Current situation of public transportation in Ulaanbaatar city

Source of ADB

Main problems of public transport in Ulaanbaatar city

Main problems of public transport in Ulaanbaatar city

• Mechanical growth of the population, Traffic congestion;• Usage of private vehicle is at rise; accessibility and availability of car park is reduced • The public transportation policies didn’t have strong linkage to Urban planning;• Public transport is facing lack of proper Information and technology and banking/

financial systems;• Low ticket price and insufficient compensation of Government for elderly and disabled,

including students and elementary school pupils• Level of Road safety conditions are worsening;• Re-novation of the vehicle fleet, machinery and equipment not done in recent years;• Traffic management capacity is weak;• High rate of traffic accident

– Low enforcement of traffic regulation by the pedestrians and vehicles – High rate of traffic accident – Regular road maintenance, especially in winter time

• And the transport infrastructure and facilities are not developed well etc.

• Implementation Phasing (2015, 2025, 2030, 2045)

Source of ADB

Long term plan of Ulaanbaatar City Public Transport

Planning for the special route buses relating with Master Plan of Development of Ulaanbaatar city until 2030.

Long term plan of Ulaanbaatar City Public Transport

• In short term:Introduction of Bus Information System/BIS, Bus Management System/BMS and E-ticketing systems, to re-organize and plan the public transport service routes,to build up the public transport fleet with more of newer units, to reduce the emission caused by transport vehicles, to formulate and implement the capital city’s public transport development program;

• Mid term: To introduce the Bus Rapid Transport /BRT/, to create the legal basis to introduce the Metro service, to modernize the payment collection system of public transport, to construct public transport service terminals, to develop logistics system for cargo and passenger transports, to install CCTV control devices on public transport terminals for the non-stop surveillance for safety, to prepare professional staff;

• Long term: To introduce the Metro service in Ulaanbaatar city and to convert all of the public transport fleet engines that would be consuming natural gas.

Public transport in the near and medium-and long-term scheduled tasks ...

THE CURRENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK

16

PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK RE-PLANNING

2

1

1. Urban Transport Development Project in Mongolia

o Bus Rapid Transit Project /BRT/

o Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) project

2. “Ulaanbaatar, the subway construction

Feasibility”

o Metro Feasibility Study on /Soosung

engineering & Seoul metro /

o Research, public transport projects in

Ulaanbaatar / JICA /

Urban transport projects

Bus Rapid Transit Project /BRT/

Санхүүжилтын эх үүсвэр Phase 1 Phase 1 Phase 1 Total

ADB 59.9 78.0 78.0 215.9

Government of Mongolian 17.0 20.0 20.0 57.0

НИЙТ 76.9 98.0 98.0 272.9

Investment plan of Bus Rapid Transit Project /BRT/

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects

Public transport services in Ulaanbaatar register control / BMS, BIS / or electronic payment / e-ticketing / systems for feasibility studies and advanced research and development of tender documents in project 3.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects

Solve integration problems

• Install new line (BRT) • Improvement fare and control system • Human resource development• Service quality• Bus station problems

Thank you for attention !

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