Railway Zoning of Russia Based on Long-Distance Passenger Traffic
https://doi.org/10.31857/S258755662202008X
Abstract
A grid of regions of Russia has been developed according to the zones of gravitation of territories to certain transport hubs provided by long-distance passenger railway communication. It is revealed that the existing methods of allocation of territories gravitating to a particular node are not suitable for the study of railway transport. To solve the problem of transport zoning, the author’s methodology for determining the zones of gravity of passenger railway nodes and points is proposed; with its help, the zones of gravity of 2065 nodes and points where long-distance trains stopped in 2016 are determined. The study was conducted based on unified territorial cells—administrative divisions of the second level (municipal districts and urban okrugs). 488 railway passenger districts have been allocated on the territory of Russia, uniting transport facilities in the zone of gravity of the central hub. The main parameters of these regions have been studied, as well as the structure of passenger flows in them. Based on the analysis of the directions of passenger traffic within the districts, four types of passenger railway regions were identified: simple (168 regions are assigned to it), complex monocentric (240 regions), complex linear (59 regions), and complex polycentric (21 regions). The possibilities of using the obtained grid of districts in the analysis of the spatial structure of a long-distance passenger railway complex are considered. The main disadvantages of the methodology are determined, due to both defects in statistical information and assumptions made during the study.
About the Author
K. V. Samburov
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Samburov K.V. Railway Zoning of Russia Based on Long-Distance Passenger Traffic. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2022;86(2):179-190. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S258755662202008X
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