HSR-2 AND MODERNIZATION OF TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS SYSTEMS OF MEGACITIES

Abstract

For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version).ABSTRACT The topic of the article is the influence of HSR-2 Moscow-Kazan-Yekaterinburg on transport and logistics systems in megacities and large urban agglomerations along the route, on town-planning development concepts. The complex modernization of the transport frame of urban agglomerations in the construction of a high-speed highway can solve the transport problems that have accumulated over the centuries, positively affect the spatial and territorial development of cities, increase the efficiency of investments, and give a reasonably expected synergistic effect. Moreover, they may require even less money than planned at the construction stage (although this is not an end in itself), and the economic effect in the operation of high-speed railways, urban and suburban transport, promises to be higher than planned, and this opens up new prospects for the spatial and territorial development of towns and agglomerations located near HSR. Keywords: HSR-2, megacities, agglomerations, international transport corridors, transport and logistics systems, mutual influence, tracing, long-term effect. Editorial note: the article presents author’s opinion and is published as a discussion paper.