Public transport on Estonia

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Public transport on Estonia

• Arne Tilk

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• Is collective transport (in Estonia) considered
  as a service of general
• interest? If yes, in which cases?
• Year 2002 in all over Estonia people used public
  transport procsimetly 247,8mln times and totally
  it was all together 2, 4 bil passengers km.
  Passangers use mainly busses, trams and trolls
  (96)
• 2004 people made 209, 4 millions trips. Outside
  towns and citys people are using cars twice
  more than with public transport.

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• 2/3 parts the public transport vehicles as used
  transport equipment is bus, 30 are using
  electrical transport-trams and trolls, only 2 of
  passengers are using trains.
• Public transport is used from full amount of
  passengers transport 30. It is double as in
  old Europe

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• Estonia is having several questions, what must
  be solved in future
• Missing long-term public transports visions on
  public republican and county lever
• In government lever Estonia is missing structure,
  which should coordinate all system( lines,
  analysis, subsides)

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• Missing conditions lever, how to serve publicity
• Commercial and supported lines are non
  coordinated

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• 2. What are the public authorities responsible
  for the organisation of public transport at the
  different territorial levels (municipality,
  inter-communal, district or county, region, other
  ...)?
• The public authorities responsibilitys are
• coordinating public transport development and
  working out development plans.

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• Arrange research in public transport needs
  amongst citizens
• Plans public transport line set
• Local authority arranges public transport
  infrastructures objects planning and building.
• Gives out activity licenses.
• Does deals with operators and arranges
  competitions among operators

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• County Government responsibilities are
• Transfers and co-ordinates public transport
  development in the county works out and imposes
  relevant developmental plans, which are funded
  from state budget, from local government finances
  and enterprisers finances.
• Arranges researches to find out citizens needs
  for traffic lines in the county according to
  researches rearranges local traffic line and
  traffic service.

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• Connects local traffic lines with state wide
  network, makes the rules how to create and change
  traffic plans, taking account state wide traffic
  plans and local governments suggestions.
• Arranges infrastructure objects planning and
  building in the county.
• Gives out activity licenses.
• Does deal public service agreements with haulers
  and arranges public contests to choose out public
  haulers on local and public traffic lines.
• To support public transport in the county,
  applies financial assistance from state budget.

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• Funds public haulage from state budget, from
  local government budget and enterprisers
  finances.
• Works out recommendatory prices for haulage.
• Guarantees tickets sales regulations and control.
• Arranges public transport supervision.

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• Regional public transport centre
• Regional public transport centre is enterpriser
  or nonprofits association established by local
  government or by state, where local government
  and state have majority determination right.
• According to regional features, local government
  and state can authorize regional public transport
  centre to execute different activities

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• Regional public transport centre's duty is to
  guarantee well organised traffic and deductions
  for county citizens. Regional public transport
  centre is not allowed to act as hauler.

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• Ministry of economic affairs and communication
• Works out and implements state development plan
  and its subprograms.
• Arranges state-wide public transport researches.
• Develops state-wide public transport network
  establishes demands how to make, perform, change
  and approve traffic timetables.

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• Works out different norms for public transport
  working methods, service norms etc.
• Arranges supervisory on public service contracts
  and administrative contracts, which are
  contracted by the ministry itself.

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• 3. What are the public transport operators at the
  different territoriallevels?
• Commercial enterprise Company, based on private
  capital
• In some places (Tallinn) local authority owned
  company (tram, troll)

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• 4. What kind of relation ties the operators to
  the public authorities? If there are contracts,
  are they contracts for the whole network, or by
  line, or by groups of lines?
• Operators are having relations indentured on
  contacts.
• Contracts are for network and also by line and
  also by groups of line.

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• 5.Does the public transport service benefit from
  financing from the public authorities? What type
  of financement (investment, exploitation,
  both....)

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• Thank You!