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About Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary, it has a population of 1.7 million. It is the economic, cultural, educational centre of Carpathian basin. The River Danube runs through Budapest.
Transport Issues
Motorisation rate increased rapidly in the last sixteen years, while volume of the public traffic decreased. There were significant improvements realized in the urban and suburban public transport system (e.g. complete reconstruction of the tram line on the Great Boulevard, express tramline improvement, modernisations of suburban rails), which makes likely to increase the level of public transport. However, suburban traffic is dominated by car, whilst volume of P+R scheme improvement is not sufficient enough to decrease the car traffic substantially in relation of the city and the outskirts zones. Congestion is significant barrier of businesses at the moment.
Budapest in COMMERCE
Mobility management is a phenomenon of the last few years in Budapest searching for its political acceptance and replenishing with technical substance. Neither the Municipality nor the BKV does not have any disposal at professional competences and organisational background to admit mobility management issues. Public bodies, such as local government or the transport operator organically arranged for running and controlling the public transport service and maintain the infrastructure are not prepared enough to adopt the soft measures of mobility management. For this reason training and education of Municipal's staff and independent expertises is needed to establish a mobility planning service supply implied the complex approach of mobility management focusing both for businesses and the public. Learn the methodology of elaborating WTP.
- Conducting pilot project WTP
- Disseminate the lessons learnt
The local government system of Budapest is unique: a two-tier arrangement – unparalleled in Hungary – operates in the capital comprising the municipality of the City and those of the Districts. The Act on Local Governments specifies different rules with respect to its special two-tier system of local government. Both the City and the Districts are local governments, not subordinated to one another, each having specific duties and powers, specified by law. Both are eligible to exercise the basic rights of local governments.
Municipality of Budapest has the duty to perform the public transport and the traffic technical tasks in the capital, defines the main roads and the lines of public transport; runs, maintains and develops the national public roads, public road bridges, underpasses and overpasses on the property of the Municipal Government of Budapest – expect for the motorways and motor roads. It runs, maintains and develops the roads of public transport on the property of the district local governments.
BKV Ltd. taking into account its legal predecessors has a 100 year-old past. Since 1991 BKV is the public transport operator owned by the Municipality of Budapest. The company operates 5 branches (bus, tram, metro and underground, suburban railway, trolley bus) in an integrated system. Moreover it operates a cogwheel railway and a funicular railway as well. BKV Ltd. serves almost 1.4 billion passengers, out of these the bus branch takes 41%, the tram 26 %, the metro and underground 22 %, the suburban railway 5% and the trolleybus branch 6 %. There are 224 bus routes (out of these the number of night routes 31), 35 tram routes (includes the cogwheel railway), 14 trolleybus routes, the number of metro lines are 3; the suburban railway routes are 5.
Municipality of Budapest has responsibilities on awareness raising and forming the public approach – inter alia at workplaces – to raise a demand for mobility management issues.
Founded in 1995 by the Municipality of Budapest, Studio Metropolitana is an institute which undertakes research and awareness raising in the sphere of urban issues.
