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[Urban transportation] city presentation praha(czech)
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City of Prague
Removing Barriers in Accesibility
of Public Transport
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3. About Prague
• Administrative, economic and educational center
• 496 km2, 1,2 mill. inhabitants
• Largest UNESCO Heritage site (8,6 km2)
– Touristic "hot spot", 5,9 mill. tourists in 2013
• 59 km metro (underground) lines
• 142 km tramway lines
• 834 km bus lines
• About 1,2 bill. passengers in PT/year
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4. The Project
• Goal: improve access to the services
– not a large single transport project
– important improve of current system
• Reasons:
– Up to 1/3 of users struggle with a barrier
• people with disabilities, injured, elderly, baby prams
• barriers: stairs, curbs, orientation problems, safety
– Public transport is important part of Prague mobility
• modal split: PT - 43 %, cars - 33 %, cycling - 1 %, pedestrians - 23 %
• historical city center with limited access for cars
• monocentric city with many services in city center
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5. Setting up a plan
1. Identification of target groups (actors)
2. Creating of working group
– POV, SONS, DP Praha, ROPID, TSK,
3. Defining problems
– barrier free vehicles, access to stops, information, safety, coordination of
improvement
4. Creating official high level institutional background
– City Council Commission
5. Strategic document and action plan
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6. Benefits
• One communication platform for all actors
– Users (NGO's), Public transport organizer, Transport company,
Prague administration, Road Administration, services, ...
• Setting up priorities
– „low floor vehicles are nice, but we need to access the stops as well“
• underground stations
• tram stations
– safety and acoustic navigation for blind users
• Coordination of improvements (made by different investors)
• Easier to define financial needs
• Easier communication with public
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7. Policy integration
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• Defining problems helped to coordinate improvement with another
activities
– road safety improvements
– pro cycling improvements
– large reconstructions and modernization
• tram tracks and stations
• roads and public areas
• "Manual for public spaces"
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8. State of art
• 65 % tram stops accessible (410 of 634, June 2014)
• 57 underground stations, 34 barrier free (60 %)
– 4 new stations under construction will be barrier free
– 3 elevators under construction in older stations
• 22 % of tram vehicles low floor
– Contract for new trams signed (2017: more than 50 %)
• 66,5 % of bus vehicles low floor (new buses low floor only )
• 2015: all metro stations will have acoustic navigation and safety
improvements for blind users
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