Private Participation in Public Transport in the FSU
This paper describes and analyses the growth of private sector participation in public transport supply in the countries in the Former Soviet Union in which the World Bank has had recent sector involvement. This includes Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Ka...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/161851634662602715/Private-participation-in-public-transport-in-the-FSU http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36539 |
| Summary: | This paper describes and analyses the
growth of private sector participation in public transport
supply in the countries in the Former Soviet Union in which
the World Bank has had recent sector involvement. This
includes Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyz S.R. and Turkmenistan. While this does not covers
only 7 out of the 15 independent states comprising the
former, this sample of countries accounts for over 96
percent of the land area and 85 percent of the population of
the FSU. It also includes a wide spectrum of countries in
terms of size, reform philosophy and income levels. The
region only contains two megacities with populations in
excess of 5 million (Moscow and St. Petersburg) but has many
cities in the range of 0.5 to 2.0 million. Privately owned
buses already carry the majority of bus passengers in
Russian secondary cities and in Kyrgyzstan, probably about
half in Uzbekistan, and a growing proportion in all other
countries except turkmenistanstan. In Kazakhstan, where some
of the competing companies still have majority state
ownership the process of privatization is likely to be taken
to completion in the near future. That trend, which merely
reflects the ownership structure trends world wide is
unlikely to be reversed. Only in Latvia, Turkmenistan and
Ukraine is there strong resistance to this trend. But that
is not to say that the current situation is stable or
sustainable. The threats to that sustainable development can
be grouped either by country or by issues. |
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