Urban transportation planning in the linear city

Abstract

The paper discusses the transportation system planning based on problems and requirements of urban transport system by linear city form. Planning form has an important impact on urban transport characteristics, and urban road network structure. The object under study is the transport infrastructure of Volgograd city (formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad), the largest industrial center in the South of Russia. The city stretches along the Volga River for almost 100 km. The authors identify the main promising directions for the development of transport infrastructure: development of high-speed transport modes, which will link remote areas of the city with its center; development of radial transport infrastructure directions and the complexity of urban plan morphology from a linear form to a more complex one; establishment of combined transport and engineering corridors; development of pre-railway areas.