SPEED URBAN TRANSPORT FOR MODERN AGLOMERATION

Abstract

The paper highlighted the main shortcomings of the existing types of urban transport; described a new form of settlement - «conurbation», the classification of urban passenger transport; refined the concept of «fast urban transport»; the necessity of creating a new type of passenger transport in terms of strategic and socio-economic development goals and objectives of St. Petersburg; reflected the creation magnetic levitation transport, can significantly improve the transport service of the population, to reduce the time spent on the trip, take some of the load on the highway due to the shift of the population use cars for transport on a magnetic cushion, reduce pollution. Maglev is no substitute for public transport, and only takes a niche. Maglev is appropriate where there is a contact with the dense buildings and accumulate large volumes of passenger traffic, which are not able to provide the underground. Design features maglev that covers truck bearing beams, prevents lane departure (derailment); emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere when the movement of trains are excluded; noise is 10 dB less than the rail; Vibration 8 times less than that of light rail transport. Maglev has the highest rate of all public land transport.