Smart parking system to be introduced to save people’s time

Throughout its final plenary session, Parliament heard the details about visitors congestion in Ulaanbaatar, lowering its adverse results, and enhancing the accessibility, high quality, and requirements of public transportation.

Minister or Chairman of the Nationwide Committee on Decreasing Site visitors Congestion J.Sukhbaatar reported, “In 2022, 18 to twenty % of the work to be carried out throughout the framework of the purpose of lowering visitors congestion in Ulaanbaatar by 50 % was efficiently accomplished. As that is the idea of the overall work to be accomplished in 2023 and 2024, we imagine that by finishing 60 % in 2023 and the remaining 20 % in 2024, congestion within the metropolis will likely be diminished by 50 %.”

The common pace of autos throughout rush hours is 8.9 to 10.8 km/h. A preliminary examine by the JICA exhibits that in 2030, it can attain 5 km/h and in 2040, visitors congestion will proceed for an entire day, he stated.

In 2023, it was determined to spend 15.1 billion MNT to renovate some elements of pedestrian and bicycle paths and improve entry to varsities and kindergartens. Furthermore, 29.5 billion MNT was budgeted for the development of essential streets in Ulaanbaatar.

“We began to implement the optimum planning of street development, enlargement and renovation primarily based on the impression on the discount of street congestion, as mirrored within the medium and long-term grasp plan for the event of the capital’s street community. On this context, we plan to construct 16.45 kilometers of roads and 963.7 meters of bridges in 11 areas. With the complete implementation of initiatives and measures, visitors congestion is projected to scale back by 9 %,” the minister continued.

As of as we speak, 996 buses serve greater than 500,000 residents in 107 instructions, however 68 % of them are greater than ten years previous. In 2023, it’s deliberate to buy 600 large-capacity Euro5 customary buses, 160 buses with electrical engines, and 50 medium-capacity buses. This yr, 272 billion MNT was accepted for public transport park renewal. The development of a public transport park commenced in Khan-Uul and Songinokhairkhan districts. In 2024, one hundred pc renewal of the general public transport park will likely be achieved, previous buses will likely be faraway from service, working prices and air and environmental air pollution will likely be diminished, and an outside parking zone with a capability of 150 buses, a heat parking zone with a capability of 220 buses, and a complete service channel will likely be put into operation, and the standard of public transport providers will likely be improved, in response to J.Sukhbaatar.

He added, “The Introduction of Excessive-Capability Buses” Venture is beneath analysis. In response to preliminary calculations, the introduction of large-capacity buses utilizing the freeway from Tolgoit to Amgalan bus station alongside Peace Avenue will improve the pace of public transport and create a kind of public transport that gives immediate providers in response to an in depth schedule.”

The primary section of the street community load discount work was efficiently carried out by introducing a street transport system, utilizing expertise to course of precise street and automobile information, carry out data-based calculations, and handle visitors primarily based on real-time monitoring. In 2023 and 2024, the second section will likely be carried out to gather real-time built-in information of autos and regulate roads and transport. Thus, visitors management will likely be improved by 40 % and street visitors load will likely be diminished by 20 %. Good parking and digital fee system will likely be launched to avoid wasting folks’s time. Checkpoint bureaus and cell police autos will likely be related to one another by good terminals to alternate data shortly, Minister J.Sukhbaatar elaborated.

As of as we speak, residents spend a median of two.5 hours a day and 35 days a yr in visitors jams within the capital vity, and the overall value of this misplaced alternative is 2.7 trillion MNT. As a way to cut back this misplaced alternative and value, the nationwide committee carried out fundamental research that can have a serious impression on lowering visitors in Ulaanbaatar in 2022. Alternatives to extend the street community and decongest visitors have been recognized. Choices for growing entry to varsities had been additionally thought of. As well as, as a way to enhance the general public transport providers of Ulaanbaatar, it’s deliberate to run small and medium-sized buses and improve the typical pace of the buses.

Through the session, parliamentarian S.Odontuya expressed, “Is it essential to impose a zoning tax on residents in Ulaanbaatar? Which is extra essential within the capital, metro or LRT? Site visitors congestion is without doubt one of the most annoying issues for Ulaanbaatar residents. Now that we’ve a minister in command of this situation, we hope that it’s going to carry outcomes. Sooner or later, it’s essential to be proactive and work properly.”

Chairman of the Democratic Get together caucus in Parliament O.Tsogtgerel commented, “Congestion is a mirrored image of politicized selections, partisan appointments and corrupt land allocations. The issue needs to be checked out holistically, and main modifications needs to be made. The answer to congestion isn’t just an issue of buses and public transport, however comes from the intersection of many insurance policies. It will likely be discovered by comprehensively trying on the issues associated to Mongolia’s demographic localization, settlement coverage, tax coverage, urbanization, cultural change, and fee techniques. I would like the minister to work diligently to search out efficient options to the issue of congestion.”