Railway Regionalization of Russia by Long-Distance Passenger Transport

K. V. Samburov ()
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K. V. Samburov: Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences

Regional Research of Russia, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 168-176

Abstract: Abstract— This article presents a grid of districts of Russia based on catchment areas of certain transport hubs that provide long-distance passenger rail transport services. It is shown that the existing methods of identifying catchment areas of a particular hub are not suitable for analyzing rail transport. To solve the problem of transport regionalization, an original methodology for identifying catchment areas of passenger railway hubs and points is proposed and then used to identify the catchment areas of 2065 long-distance railway hubs and points on 2016 data. The study uses second-level territorial-administrative units (municipal districts and urban okrugs) as the elementary territorial unit. A total of 488 passenger railway districts that include transport facilities located in the catchment area of the district’s central hub are delineated on the territory of Russia. Key parameters of these districts and their passenger traffic structures are studied. The districts are divided into four types based on an analysis of passenger traffic patterns within them: simple (168 districts), complex monocentric (240 districts), complex linear (59 districts), and complex polycentric (21 districts). The possibilities of using the constructed grid of districts for analyzing the spatial structure of the long-distance passenger railway complex are considered. The main disadvantages of the methodology, associated with defects in the source statistical data as well as assumptions made within the study, are discussed.

Keywords: regionalization; passenger traffic; catchment areas; railway hub; long-distance trains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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