Moscow became the leader among European cities by number of working buses

14 May 2019

Metropolitan Park is buses joined the 100th machine

According to the Agency urban news "Moscow" in the capital Park electrobus Maroc KAMAZ and LiAZ reached hundreds of machines. This information was announced by Deputy mayor in Moscow government, head of the Department of transportation and development of road-transport infrastructure Maxim Liksutov.

He said: "I Can say that that is a fed, it fully corresponds to the technical task that was developed by the Department of transport.

We constantly Refine and improve requirements." In an interview with Maxim Liksutov also said that in coming machines the main emphasis is on improving the reliability of air conditioning and heating, as well as the increase of the coefficient of technical readiness (graduation rate).

According to him since the beginning of operation of buses on the routes from Moscow sentyabrya last year, the costs of GUP "Mosgortrans" turned out to be almost 11% lower than the trolley. In addition, the graduation rate in the buses were at the level of 0,9–0,95 0,78 vs, max of 0.85 of a trolley bus, i.e. the bus is about 20% reliable.

According to Liksutov, the drivers of the buses among the former trolleybusniki after some difficulty relearning do not want to change back to "horned" transport. At the moment, according to him, the Russian capital became the leader in the number of buses not only in Europe but also in North America.

By order of the mayor of Moscow in 2020 the capital will have to buy 300 buses and 2021 this figure will rise to 600-800 units, but the purchase of conventional diesel buses, respectively, will cease.