[Urban transportation] city presentation praha(czech)

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City of Prague

Removing Barriers in Accesibility

of Public Transport

Urban Transportation Policy Course, Seoul, 26.11.2014

About Prague

• Administrative, economic and educational center

• 496 km2, 1,2 mill. inhabitants

• Largest UNESCO Heritage site (8,6 km2)

– Touristic "hot spot", 5,9 mill. tourists in 2013

• 59 km metro (underground) lines

• 142 km tramway lines

• 834 km bus lines

• About 1,2 bill. passengers in PT/year


The Project

• Goal: improve access to the services – not a large single transport project

– important improve of current system

• Reasons: – Up to 1/3 of users struggle with a barrier

• people with disabilities, injured, elderly, baby prams

• barriers: stairs, curbs, orientation problems, safety

– Public transport is important part of Prague mobility

• modal split: PT - 43 %, cars - 33 %, cycling - 1 %, pedestrians - 23 %

• historical city center with limited access for cars

• monocentric city with many services in city center

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Setting up a plan

1. Identification of target groups (actors)

2. Creating of working group

– POV, SONS, DP Praha, ROPID, TSK,

3. Defining problems

– barrier free vehicles, access to stops, information, safety, coordination of

improvement

4. Creating official high level institutional background

– City Council Commission

5. Strategic document and action plan


Benefits

• One communication platform for all actors

– Users (NGO's), Public transport organizer, Transport company, Prague administration, Road Administration, services, ...

• Setting up priorities

– „low floor vehicles are nice, but we need to access the stops as well“

• underground stations

• tram stations

– safety and acoustic navigation for blind users

• Coordination of improvements (made by different investors)

• Easier to define financial needs

• Easier communication with public


Policy integration

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• Defining problems helped to coordinate improvement with another

activities

– road safety improvements

– pro cycling improvements

– large reconstructions and modernization

• tram tracks and stations

• roads and public areas

• "Manual for public spaces"


State of art

• 65 % tram stops accessible (410 of 634, June 2014)

• 57 underground stations, 34 barrier free (60 %)

– 4 new stations under construction will be barrier free

– 3 elevators under construction in older stations

• 22 % of tram vehicles low floor

– Contract for new trams signed (2017: more than 50 %)

• 66,5 % of bus vehicles low floor (new buses low floor only )

• 2015: all metro stations will have acoustic navigation and safety improvements for blind users


Jaroslav Mach

www.praha.eu

[email protected]

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