Сhanges in the Route Network of the City of Tver and the Kalininsky District After the Transfer of Powers of Public Transport Planning From the Municipal to the Regional Level

This paper examines changes in the public transport route network in Tver and the Kalininsky region after the transfer of planning authority from the municipal to the regional level. The experience of the transport reform of Tver shows one of the options for the development of public transport, in which intracity and all other intraregional routes exist within the same passenger transportation system. This implies the creation of a single timetable, one tariff zone. Subsequently, the new route network may become the main one for the future territorial development of the entire region. The work consists of three chapters. The first chapter begins with an overview of the literature on the planning of urban public transport routes: who develops routes, how they are distributed among carriers. The second chapter describes the transport reform which occurred in Tver and the Kalininsky region. The third chapter identifies the research methodology and data sources and provides a spatial analysis of the public transport route network. Based on the results of the work, analytical and cartographic analysis of changes in the route network of Tver and the Kalininsky region after the transport reform in 2020 was obtained. The findings made it possible to assess changes in public transport operation after the transfer of planning authority from the municipal to the regional level.