Are there minibuses? How are numbers assigned to public transport routes? Where does the night land transport go?
Each week, Look At Me takes a look at one notable app that's changing the way we think about mobile experiences, and digs into the ideas, the technology, the developers behind the App Store icon. In the new issue - a conversation with the creators of the ETransport application, which allows you to track the movement of city public transport.
The ETranport application finds the stops closest to the user and displays the direction of travel there. Just select the desired stop, and the application will calculate how many minutes later this or that public transport will arrive.
ETranport provides users with the opportunity to create their own list of favorite stops and routes, so that they don’t have to re-search for the ones they use most often.
The tab with the list of favorite stops and routes can be made the starting one- this will simplify the process of using the application.
The ETranport application also stores in memory the last few stops and routes viewed by the user.
The movement of public transport in the application can be tracked either by interactive map, and according to the list with information about arrival time and distance.
The free ETransport application collects information about the location of urban transport equipped with GLONASS sensors and calculates the arrival time of buses, trolleybuses and trams at a specific stop. The application automatically determines the user's location and prompts him to select one of the nearest stops on the interactive map. Next, the screen displays a list of routes and the time after which this or that public transport will arrive at the stop. Thanks to this, you can save time and plan your route wisely. Also in the ETranport application there is a function for saving favorite stops and the ability to view the history of your movements.
“When we were students and just starting our small business- a mobile application development company - we were missing an interesting project for our portfolio. I wanted to come to a potential client and say: “Do you know ETranport? We did this! That is, initially it was a kind of side project, but in the end it was it that attracted new clients.
The principle of operation of the application itself is quite simple - ETransport determines the user’s location and offers to select the nearest transport stops on an interactive map, and then shows the approaching transport and the time after which it will arrive at the stop. The biggest problem associated with the launch of ETranport is that it is necessary to negotiate with the city authorities on the right of access to data on a specific location of all public transport units. In my opinion, this is strange - after all, the convenient service that we create for citizens benefits any government. Moreover, this is simply wrong - such data cannot be hidden, it must be in the public domain. In this regard, St. Petersburg is at the forefront: the authorities there have not only opened this data to everyone, but also encourage developers of such projects (but ETranport on this moment considered to be the best in terms of functionality). In about 40 other cities, no one hides transport location data, but in Moscow they are practically classified.
In the next month we will launch ETranport in 11 more cities in Russia, but for now I cannot disclose information about which cities are included in this list. I think their residents will definitely not miss this event. In Moscow, for example, in the first four days we attracted more than 40 thousand users. Unfortunately, not everyone noticed that Moscow (as, by the way, St. Petersburg) is still in the beta testing stage, and the application does not yet have many stops and routes, and the information about the location of transport may differ from the real situation.
Promo video ETranport
In the future, we will definitely add to the application the function of constructing a point-to-point route, as well as the ability to calculate travel time and even warn your friends about how many minutes you will arrive. We will also remind users in advance that it is time to leave the house so as not to miss their tram, otherwise the next one will not arrive soon. We will pay more attention to ensuring that users can communicate with each other, choose the “King of the Roads” or the “Mayor of the Stop.” We want people to share valuable information with each other (for example, what the line is under control) and discuss various things like rude drivers and singing conductors.
There are five people in our team. I studied at the Gorky USU, where I met Maxim Rovkin, our Android developer. He brought an incredible server-man Pasha Dick to our team - on the eve of the most difficult test of the entire study period, he worked all night to ensure that our application launched in Moscow on time and without problems. It’s funny, but we first met our iOS developer Egor Eremeev in person after the release of the first version of ETransport. Egor and Max met when they took the Unified State Exam in different cities(Egor is in Naberezhnye Chelny, and Maxim is in Yekaterinburg), but with equal diligence they solved tests for Far East. Designer Pasha Osipkin found us himself - in January 2013, we received a letter from him in the mail, saying that your application is excellent, but the design is crap. So Pasha became part of our team, which we are still incredibly happy about.”
For several years, a meme picture has been circulating on the Internet - the emotional, obscene impressions of a provincial from Moscow. Among them is the phrase: “Bus 483, what a number!” The logic behind the numbering of urban transport is indeed not always obvious. The Village found out on what basis numbers are assigned to buses, trolleybuses and trams.
Press service of State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans"
All city routes passenger transport capital cities have single-digit, two-digit and three-digit numbers. This numbering has developed historically and does not change. On new routes, vehicles are assigned new numbers or numbers of previously canceled routes. All numbering is individual, but there are also coincidences: routes can be designated the same way different types transport. So, tram No. 3, trolleybus No. 3 and bus No. 3 travel around the city, but they all follow different routes.
There is no need to assign four-digit numbers to new routes yet. There are, however, bus routes No. 1001, 1002 and 1004, which previously belonged to commercial carriers. In 2013, they were transferred to the management of Mosgortrans; for the convenience of passengers, the numbers were not changed.
Sometimes the specifics of a particular route are taken into account when numbering. For example, in Moscow there are several “social” directions of movement; they cover institutions of education, medicine, and social protection. The numbers of such routes begin with the letter C: C1, C2 and so on. There are also night routes of ground urban transport, these are buses No. H1, H2, H3. Letters are also used for shortened flights: they duplicate the busiest sections of the route. To make it easier for passengers to navigate, when entering such a route, the letter “k” (short) is added to the main number. There is, for example, bus route No. 709, which runs from the Orekhovo metro station to the Kashirskaya metro station, and there is No. 709k, which goes from the Orekhovo metro station to the Moskvorechye platform.
Konstantin Trofimenko
Director of the Center for Research on Transport Problems of Megacities at the Higher School of Economics
There is no special transport numbering system in Moscow - it is a wild mixture between route numbers from a hundred years ago, Stalin's, Brezhnev's and numbers from the 1990s. They all layered on top of each other.
There are also routes that are designated using letters. This may be a consequence of the fact that the transport route was once divided into two parts. It also happens that the route branches: the vehicle follows the route, and then its version, with the letter A added to its numbering, turns right. The option without such a letter continues to follow straight. All this, of course, causes confusion. City navigation is absolutely not user-friendly. If a person does not specialize in this topic, he is unlikely to know about any routes other than those that he needs.
IN Soviet times regularly carried out work to optimize the urban transport system. They stopped doing this in the 90s, but now attempts are being resumed. Last year, not only the problem of transport numbering was raised, but also the question of the need for certain routes. It happens that they lose relevance: for example, there was a bus that took people to the factory. The enterprise was closed and people stopped going there, but the route continues to function. Does the city need it? But, unfortunately, so far this work has not led to a positive result.
Illustration: Nastya Grigorieva
Until what time do buses run in Moscow? After all, the metropolis never sleeps and at night life only slows down slightly, but does not “die”.
Not everyone is rich enough to use a taxi, so it would be more advisable to simply check the bus times and routes.What time do buses start in Moscow?
Mostly buses wake up at 5.30. Outlying routes start at 5.00. At the same time, trolleybuses and trams begin to operate.Until what time do buses run in Moscow?
The shift of buses on outlying routes ends at 22.00; in the city, up to 24 hours there is still a chance to get home by bus.There are also special night routes that are designed for night passengers.
There are 6 of these routes and they travel at 30-minute intervals along their routes. They start exactly at midnight and carry passengers along the following routes until 6 am:
H1 - Sheremetyevo Airport;
H2 - Belovezhskaya street;
H3 - Ussuriyskaya street;
H4 - Novokosino;
H5 - Kashirskoe highway, 148;
H6 - Ostashkovskaya street.
There are several types of public transport in Moscow: bus, trolleybus, tram, metro. There is the Butovskaya light metro line (in the south of the city) and a monorail from the Timiryazevskaya metro station to Sergei Eisenstein Street (in the north). Minibus taxis are very popular. During rush hour it is better to choose the metro, as ground transport usually stuck in traffic.
There are two river stations on the river - Northern and Southern - and several berths. Navigation opens in spring and closes in autumn, dates may vary depending on ice conditions. Motor ships sailing along the Moscow River are used mainly for excursion purposes.
In summer, bicycle taxis travel along the boulevards. A ride in such a taxi is more of an entertainment experience. There is little practical use from them, since the routes are very short.
Since 2013, several night routes have been operating.
Metro in Moscow
The metro has twelve lines. Stations open for entry around 5:30 (times can vary up to 15 minutes) and close for entry at 1:00. The last trains from the terminal stations of each line depart around 1:03. Line-to-line transfers formally close at 1:00, but in reality the transition is possible later if the last train in the required direction has not yet passed.
The interval of trains in the metro is on average 2-3 minutes, during rush hour on many lines it is 90 seconds, early in the morning and late in the evening up to 5-10 minutes. On the Kakhovskaya and Filevskaya lines, the intervals are longer than usual.
Ground transportation
Buses, trams and trolleybuses start operating at approximately 5:00-6:00. Most lines stop operating after midnight, but there are also those that stop operating in the early evening. Timetables for almost all routes are published on the Mosgortrans websites. At stops, full schedules are indicated for individual lines, for most - only intervals.
Route taxis(these are usually minibuses with 13-20 seats, and the line numbers have the letter M) as a rule, do not operate later than 23:00.
City buses have the Mosgortrans logo and serve lines in the number ranges 0-299 and 500-999. Buses with numbers from 300 to 499 are commuter buses (with the exception of some lines in “new Moscow” southwest of the Moscow Ring Road), and city tickets are not valid for them. Buses with numbers starting from 900 can be express buses. There are also separate letter designations for ground transport routes. The most famous of these lines is trolleybus B, which runs around the clock. Garden Ring.
Among the night routes at the moment there are only four daily ones, including bus 1H, heading to Sheremetyevo Airport. Several more lines only operate on weekend nights and holidays.
Electric trains are not formally part of the Moscow transport system, but in some cases they are the fastest way to travel between some areas. The main problem is the ragged schedule and fragmentation of the network: the bulk of electric trains travel from dead-end stations in the city center to the Moscow region along a dozen radial directions, and only a small number of flights cross the city right through.
Tariffs for public transport in Moscow
Payment for all types of transport at the entrance. The metro and surface transport tariff systems were partially unified in 2013. There are two main groups of tickets - valid in any transport (except for minibuses and trains) and valid only in buses, trams and trolleybuses.
Tickets for any transport are available at metro ticket offices, and options for 1-2 trips are available at station machines. The price is 40 rubles for one trip, 80 for two, 150 rubles for five, 300 for 11 trips, 500 for 20 trips, 1000 for 40 trips and 1200 rubles for 60 trips. Thus, in the latter case, one entrance to the transport costs 20 rubles - half as much as a single ticket. Transfers between the metro and the only monorail line are free if the same ticket is used to enter.
Tickets for bus, tram and trolleybus are available only at Mosgortrans kiosks and cost 30 rubles for one trip, 60 for two, 100 rubles for five, 200 rubles for 11 trips, 350 rubles for 20 trips, 700 rubles for 40 trips and 750 rubles for 60 trips.
Transport drivers only sell tickets for 4 trips for 100 rubles. In addition, they also have one-time “90 minutes” tickets available, which cost 50 rubles and include one trip on the metro and an unlimited number of them on ground transport (at the same time, enter the last vehicle must be no later than 90 minutes after entering the first place). Reusable 90 Minutes tickets are sold at kiosks and metro ticket offices. For 2 trips such a ticket costs 100 rubles, for 5 - 220 rubles, for 11 - 450 rubles, for 20 - 750 rubles, for 40 trips - 1500 and for 60 - 1800.
Finally, for those who use transport only from time to time, there is a so-called “electronic wallet”, otherwise known as the Troika card. The passenger first credits the desired amount of money to it, and upon entering the transport, 28 rubles are debited from the card account in the metro, 26 in other transport and 44 rubles in the case of a transfer trip. The Troika card itself will cost another 50 rubles. In addition, other types of tickets can be credited to it, including commuter train passes.
On the electric trains themselves, the price of a single trip within Moscow is 28 rubles. When traveling outside the city, the tariff depends on the distance. Train stations usually have turnstiles at both the entrance and exit; a ticket is required in both cases.
In minibuses common price the fare is approximately 30-40 rubles, often higher on flights outside the Moscow Ring Road. Payment only in cash. Sometimes on short sections of the route the price may be lower than the standard price. It should be borne in mind that there are also small minibuses of Mosgortrans with its symbols and a board with the number bus route(without the letter M) - standard tickets are valid for them.
The Moscow metro is gradually rolling out a network of free wireless internet. So far, several lines are equipped with it (Koltsevaya, Kakhovskaya, Kalininskaya), but it is likely that in the coming years the service will be available on all lines. In addition, access is available on at least part of trolleybus B, tram 3 and express bus 902.
How to get to Moscow airports
The easiest, but also the most expensive way to airports is by Aeroexpress train (to Sheremetyevo from Belorussky railway station, to Domodedovo - from Paveletsky, to Vnukovo - from Kievsky). The fare is 400 rubles (340 if purchased online).
In addition to Aeroexpress, you can get to it by buses 817 and 851 (the fare depending on the ticket used is from 12.5 to 30 rubles), as well as minibuses 948M and 949M (70 rubles), running from the metro stations "Planernaya" and " River Station". In addition, launched night bus H1 (12.5-30 rubles), coming from Leninsky Prospekt through the city center.
You can get to Vnukovo from the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station by buses 611 and 611c (12.5-30 rubles) and minibus 45M (100 rubles).
To Domodedovo there is bus 308 (100 rubles) and minibus 308M (120 rubles) from Domodedovo, as well as about once every 2-3 hours a regular train from Paveletsky station(70-105 rubles depending on the landing location in Moscow).
Taxi in Moscow
Taxis in Moscow are extremely expensive for short trips- tariffs of various companies usually start from 350-500 rubles for any move. As a rule, a trip lasting 20-30 minutes costs the same or a little more.
A trip to the airport usually costs 1000-1500 rubles, even from nearby areas.
The metropolitan metropolis lives an intense life around the clock, so traffic at night only decreases, but does not stop completely. Of course, cars predominate in this flow - personal ones and taxis, but there is also a certain amount of public transport.
How long does public transport run in Moscow?
The bulk of city buses, trolleybuses and trams begin their working day at 5-6 a.m., finishing at 11-11 p.m. Some routes, mainly outlying ones, operate until a maximum of 10 p.m. Minibus taxis operate the line in approximately the same range, starting work around 5.30-6.00 and finishing it closer to 23.00. The metro increases the chances for late passengers by another hour - the metro doors close at 01.00, opening again at 5:30-5:45 depending on the station.
Night transport in Moscow
But what about those who need to get to the airport, train station or home at night? The choice is small:
night public transport;
personal cars;
With a personal car, everything is clear, you can only note that it is inconvenient to go to the station or airport yourself - you will have to long term leave your car in a paid parking lot. And it’s not always convenient to get home if you’ve been actively resting before - you’ll also have to leave the car in the parking lot at night or order a “sober driver” service.
Night public transport routes in Moscow
In 2013, at the request of Muscovites, the authorities introduced the first night routes. Now 6 night buses run around the city every night at half-hour intervals, with one common end point - Lubyanskaya Square, thanks to which you can transfer from one route to another. The second final stop is different for everyone:
H1 - Sheremetyevo Airport;
H2 - Belovezhskaya street;
H3 - Ussuriyskaya street;
H4 - Novokosino;
H5 - Kashirskoe highway, 148;
H6 - Ostashkovskaya street.
There are also 3 trolleybuses and a tram on the line (from the metro station " Chistye Prudy"to Akademika Yangelya Street). One of the trolleybuses moves along the Garden Ring at intervals of 15 minutes, the other two run every half hour: from Lubyanskaya Square to block 138 on Vykhino and from the VDNH metro station to 10 Letiya Oktyabrya Street .
Most night transport starts at 0.00 and leaves for the park around 6 am. The exact schedule of night public transport routes in Moscow can be seen on the Mosgortrans website.
Convenient taxi for night trips around Moscow
Night public transport in Moscow runs mainly along metro lines. If you are at night:
you need to go to another area not covered by buses and trolleybuses,
I don’t want to wait at least half an hour, and then have to walk to my own house,
you need to get to the train station or airport with your luggage and children, -
The best option would be to call a taxi, of course, if you choose the right company - inexpensive, reliable and comfortable, for example, "5 Star Taxi". Its advantages.