Transport Connection and Development of the Eastern Regions of Russia
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587-55662019635-52
Abstract
Paper analyzes the internal and external connection of passenger transport systems in the Eastern regions of Russia. Key regions with medium and low levels of development are Krasnoyarsk krai, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), and Magadan oblast. These regions differ from each other by the situation in the State Transport System and are characterized by significant intra-regional differences in the level and nature of transport connection. Analysis of transport connection and isolation is based on the author’s methodology. The proposed approach includes not only analysis of statistics, frequency, time costs and tariffs for all types of passenger transport in the regions, but also qualitative sociological methods – in-depth interviews with passengers and employees of transport terminals. The differences in accessibility of the main settlements of the regions are determined. Low regularity of communication, absence of alternatives along many routes, episodic and insufficient reliability of transport due to seasonality, and important role of shadow forms of transport services were revealed in public transport systems of studied regions.
Keywords
transport,
transport networks,
Krasnoyarsk krai,
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),
Magadan oblast,
transport development,
transport connection
Supporting agencies: Research was fulfilled in the Institute of Geography RAS and financially supported by the grant received from the RFBR and Russian Geographical Society (24/2018/RAS-RFBR), theoretical issues was prepared within the framework of the state-ordered research theme of the Institute of Geography RAS, no. 0148-2019-0008 and Russian Academic Excellence Project of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (5-100).
About the Authors
A. S. Neretin
Institute of Geography RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
M. V. Zotova
Institute of Geography RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
A. I. Lomakina
Institute of Geography RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
S. A. Tarkhov
Institute of Geography RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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- Regions with a low level of transport development have a lot of shadow transportation types.
- The pronounced hierarchy of the system of roads, ways, paths, and routes is typical for Siberia and Far East of Russia.
- Water transport and air transport have the greatest potential in the eastern regions of Russia, but both of them show the most crisis tendencies nowadays.
- Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Magadan region are characterized by a combination of marginal areas of transport development along key roads with extensive undeveloped transport zones, where mesoregional and local air hubs are connected to the regional centre.
- Case studies are characterized by low reliability of transportation, associated with a high share of irregular and shadow passenger traffic, insufficient quality of road infrastructure, seasonality of communication, a lack of alternative modes of transport on most routes, which leads to monopolization and to the rising cost of transportation.
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Neretin A.S., Zotova M.V., Lomakina A.I., Tarkhov S.A. Transport Connection and Development of the Eastern Regions of Russia. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2019;(6):35-52. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587-55662019635-52
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