Study of attitudes of Kazan residents to the perspective of refusing the use of a personal car as a means of transportation in the city

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the attitude of Kazan residents to the prospect of not using a personal car as a means of transportation in the city. The aim of this study is to develop recommendations to popularize the idea of using public transport services of Kazan city residents on the basis of the analysis and its evaluation. To achieve the goal, the following main tasks were set and solved: a theoretical and empirical interpretation of the main concepts on the topic of the study; a comparative analysis of the volume of public costs from the use of a private car by residents of Kazan and their use of public transport services was carried out; the system of public transport in the city of Kazan was evaluated. The methodological tools of the study included a questionnaire survey and content analysis. As a result of the study, we found that at the moment there is indeed a problem within the city of Kazan, which consists in the impossibility of ensuring the universal transition of residents from the use of private cars to the consumption of public transport services, due to the lack of development of the relevant infrastructure.

Social And Economic Prospects For The Development Of Public Transport

“…2) Content analysis which is a special, rather strict and formalized method of qualitative-quantitative analysis of various materials (documents, articles, etc.) (Zakirova et al, 2021).…”

“… developing recommendations on the elimination of the reasons that may make city residents want to own and use a personal car for their movements (Zakirova et al, 2021).…”

“…The Russian Federation's Ministry of Transport presented an upgraded draft of the Transport Strategy in the fall of 2020, according to which the Russian government is examining a possible transition to free public transportation in cities by 2035 (Zakirova et al, 2021). The Russian Federation's Ministry of Transport recommends free public transportation for all categories of motorists under the «user pays» model.…”

“…Despite the increased appeal of urban passenger transport systems and taxi and carsharing services, the trend of passengers abandoning public transportation persisted in 2019 (Čulík et al, 2020;de-Miguel-Molina et al, 2020;Ding et al, 2019;Jochem et al, 2020), because of substantially improved road conditions, particularly in the European half of the nation, which permitted the use of personal vehicles for both business and tourism visits (Zakirova et al, 2021).…”

“…To ascertain the prospects of plans to implement mechanisms to economically stimulate the influx of the population into public transportation, research on the attitudes of residents of large Russian cities toward the possibility of abandoning the use of private cars as the primary mode of transportation in their municipalities is required (Andersson et al, 2020;Bayart et al, 2020;Gundlach et al, 2018;Urbanek, 2021;Zakirova et al, 2021).…”