THE ALMATY METRO RING-RADIAL NETWORK (Prospects of creation and integration in the Urban Public Transport system): Research Paper by GLEB K.SAMOILOV, 2014

London / Almaty: Research Department, 2014. — 156 p.: figures, tables. — ISBN 978-601-06-2758-1. The Book discusses issues of improving the availability of public transport in the Kazakhstan's largest city on the basis of the Metro intensive development. Planning features of the Almaty city and the specificity of the Public Transport functioning determine the optimal variant of the Metro development – the formation of a Radial-Ring network. Gradually implemented scheme of the Off-street transport forms convenient for passengers system of various types of Public and Private Transport integration. It helps to solve a significant number of existing and potential Transport problems, Socio-economic development tasks and Environmental problems in the city of Almaty. The list of references includes 253 titles; going through the text illustrations are 31 Author’s drawings. The Book is intended for specialists in fields of the Public Transport, the Urban Planning and the Environmental Protection. THE CONTENT THE INTRODUCTION - 5 Chapter 1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALMATY METRO NETWORK 1.1 Conceptions of the Almaty High-speed Off-street Transport tracing - 10 1.2 Prerequisites for the formation of the Almaty Metro Ring-Radial network - 20 1.3 Proposed scheme of the Almaty Metro Ring-Radial network - 24 1.4 Development Stages of the Almaty Metro Ring-Radial network - 56 Conclusions of the First Chapter - 70 Chapter 2 THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ALMATY URBAN PASSENGER TRANSPORT INTEGRATED SYSTEM 2.1 The Integration of the Developed Metro network with other modes of the Public transport - 72 2.2 The Integration of the Developed Metro network with the Private transport - 77 2.3 The Urban Passenger Transport Integrated system based on the Developed Metro network - 79 Conclusions of the Second Chapter - 122 THE CONCLUSION - 123 The List of References - 126 The List of Figurers - 147 The List of Tables - 149 The List of Author’s publications on the topic of the Research - 150 Briefly about the Author - 154