Transport Hubs as the Basis for the Development of the System of Public Centers of the City: Actual Problems of the Moscow Practice

This work examines the characteristics of the existing practice of creating transport hubs that has been adopted in Moscow. Today, major transport projects are being implemented in the city, which have ceased to take into account the long-term territorial planning documents. The relevance of the study comes, on the one hand, from the significant annual volume of construction of transport infrastructure in Moscow, and on the other hand, from the lack of any information about the extent to which these activities ensure the implementation of the directions and achievement of the development parameters provided for in the city's General Plan since 2010. The problem of the study is the imbalance, and therefore the inefficiency of measures prepared outside of the single document of comprehensive long-term development of the territory, including proposals for the development of transport infrastructure that fall outside of the General Plan of the city. The main purpose of the study is to determine the regulatory and legal conditions for ensuring the effectiveness of long-term solutions for the development of the system of public centers in Moscow on the basis of newly formed transport hubs. The result is proposals to improve the current regulatory and management system for the implementation of transit hubs; proposals to coordinate the work of the people involved in the planning of transit hubs, and monitoring the implementation of the current Moscow Master Plan for the implementation of transport infrastructure.