Environmentally Sustainable Transport forum in Asia05 October 2018

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Dr. BULGAA Khurelbaatar

Transport Department of the Capital city

Transport Demand Management of Ulaanbaatar city

Overview

• Transport in Ulaanbaatar city

• Transport problems

• Transport demand management

Transport in Ulaanbaatar

Transport in Ulaanbaatar

1.4 mil.(Mongolia 3.0 mil)

0.5 mil.(Mongolia 0.8 mil)

800 km(Paved road)

950(87 route)

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Camp routes

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Suburban routes

Main routes

Public transport route length /km/

650,000-750,000 passengers daily in Ulaanbaatarcity where 40% of the total population reside.

Ulaanbaatar city• Established as - 1639• Area - 4,704.4 km2

• Elevation - 1,350 m

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Public transport

51%

Car42%

Taxi5%

Walk2%

Modal share

Transport in Ulaanbaatar

Source: ADB TA-8212 MONCar Walk Public transport

Passenger of public transport in Ulaanbaatar city88.9 150.4

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Ridership /mil./ Population /thousand/

745.1 749.8 753.4 759 759.3

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Riderdeship by days of week /thousand/

Bus fleet which is operating in the Ulaanbaatar city only accounts for 0.4% of daily traffic. Thus

servicing about 52% of passengers daily and services around 200.0 million passengers annually.

Adult Children Elderly Disabled Student Police Honored

donor

Total boarding passenger number. April, 2017

Total boarding passenger number. April, 2018

Transport problems

1. Traffic congestion 2. Air pollution

3. Poor public transport 4. Poor road network and quality

Average bus speed in Ulaanbaatar city

11.27 10.92 11.25 11.62 11.71

15.66 15.67

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Bus speed (07-19 hour)31.0

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Transport demand

management

Number plate restriction of vehicle

Number plate restrictionreduce 20% of the cars offthe road on working days.

Number platelast digit

Restricted day

1, 6 Monday

2, 7 Tuesday

3, 8 Wednesday

4, 9 Thursday

5, 0 Friday

Bus line of Ulaanbaatar city

Smart public transport in Ulaanbaatar city

“Ulaanbaatar Smart Card” LLC:

- Established bus control center(BMS and BIS)

- Total 1,300 bus installed GPSdevise, card reader and CCTV

- Total card charger 524 pointworking whole city.

- Build new IST 10 standard.

Under the scope of developing Intelligent Transport System in the capital city, “Ulaanbaatar Smart Card”LLC has been implementing “Electronic payment system, BIS and BMS” project since 2015.

Smart public transport in Ulaanbaatar city

The electronic payment system has been introduced in the public transport in July of2015. Starting from 1st of April 2017 bus operating companies have stopped acceptingcash payment and have started accepting only smart card payment.

№ Type of Smart card Total number

1 Adult 831,529

2 Children 235,506

2 Elderly 105,363

3 Disabled 29,460

4 Student 54,232

5 Honored donor 186

6 Bank card /City pass/ 21,685

7 Mobile sim card /Unitel/ 1,014

8 Mobile sim card /Mobicom/ 46

Unlimited monthly card

9 Adult 12,325

10 Children 7,596

Adult 57%

Children 17%

Elderly 10%

Disabled 4%

Student 12%

Type of smart card

Source: USCC LLC

Smart public transport in Ulaanbaatar city

All public transport buses installed GPS device and data collected on the Ulaanbaatar smart card llc. Buscontrol center operating and monitoring all buses.

Bus Information

System

Bus station

Ub smart bus

Mobile application

Bus Control center

Call center

Safety bus

Bus cameras

Parking of Ulaanbaatar city

• Number of paid parking : 39• Price (per hour) : 1000 MNT

Bike sharing of Ulaanbaatar city

• Start: July 2018• Parking location place: 14 (plan* 150)• Number of bike: 350 (plan* 2000)• Price (per hour): 1000 MNT• Bike line: 34.4 km (plan* 59.9 km)

* - 2020

City administration new location

New location (Yarmag)

Current location (CBD)

Airport

- City administration: 1933 staff- 5700 customers per day- Construction: 40%

Future plan of public transport in Ulaanbaatar city

Ulaanbaatar city’s Master plan (2020) and Development approaches for2030 was adopted by Parliament of Mongolia in 2013. In the master plan, itis stated that Ulaanbaatar city will be restructured from monocentric cityinto multi-centric. Thus, Ulaanbaatar city has developed the feasibility studyof Metro and has established the BRT project implementation unit in orderdevelop mass transit and accommodate the future passenger demand.

Thank you for attention.