Sustainable Urban Transport for the City of Kyiv

Project Summary:

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine and the 8th largest city in Europe, faces a number of urban transport challenges. Public transport systems—including metro, municipal and private buses, trams, and trolley buses—operate often near capacity on poorly maintained, Soviet-era legacy systems. The city’s transportation infrastructure has deteriorated due to lack of investment and weak system integration. Furthermore, city plans do not reflect spatial expansion of the city, the growing use of motorized vehicles, and changing passenger mobility patterns. Traffic congestion has increased travel time and costs, traffic accidents, while contributing to deteriorating air quality and declining productivity. The City Development Strategy identified transport as a top priority, pointing to enhanced traffic management and improved urban mobility as key to strengthening the city’s economic competitiveness.

List of Activities:

• Assessing and benchmarking the city transport systems
• Recommending improvements in public transport
• Strengthening city administration transport planning capability
• Developing an integrated city traffic management scheme

Outcomes:

To support Kyiv’s City Strategy, the program intends to produce: (i) assessment and benchmarking of the city transport systems, (ii) policy recommendations for improvements in the public transport, (iii) capacity-building of the planning capabilities to strengthen the city administration’s transport sector, and (iv) an integrated city traffic management scheme.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

• Kyiv City Administration
• City Planning Institute of Kyiv
• Public transport operators in Kyiv, including Kyivpasstrans (buses and trams) and Kyiv Metropolitan (metro)