seems, on the capital market of passenger bus transport will soon begin the changes that may lead to a tightening of competition and consolidation of carriers.

Remember: according to changes to the Cabinet decree number 525 dated 21.05.09, in order of carrying out the competition for the carriage of passengers on bus routes, public service (hereinafter - the Procedures), which lobbied the major carriers, we give a score of applicants for the route, the company with a large fleet of vehicles and their logistics, have much more chances to win a tender to service the routes of common use in comparison with other companies.

upheld the right

Note that even at the beginning of June the city authorities on the basis of the Order of tried to take her, developed by the Directorate of Transport and Communications KSCA. But the project, more than the interests of public parks belonging to the MP Kyivpastrans, was sent for revision. Entrepreneurs are forced officials to hold the capital all the regulator Act review procedures for projects of similar documents. As a result, Kyiv Committee on Transport and Communications approved a compromise version of the draft rules, which could be adopted metropolitan MPs at the next session.
    

As Yuriy Artemenko, director of the Trans Nadiya (Kiev, 1998, 115 buses), the private carriers been able to remove from the text of the rules, which obviously puts them in an unequal position with MP Kyivpastrans. For example was repealed the rule that the decision of the Tender Committee in the selection of candidates for the route is subject to the information Glavtransinspektsii and traffic police violations carriers license conditions, safety on the route, road traffic regulations, etc., as well as on complaints received at carriers in the hot telephone line KSCA.

These details have nothing to do with the competition, believes Valery Lipetsk, chairman of the carriers, employers' capital, they are easy to fabricate in the interest of a party to the tender. Lifted and the requirement of transport head KSCA concerning the prohibition route for carriers to stop their vehicles at the request of passengers.

According to the Law On the road, taxi, and it is this different from the normal buses, - explains Gennady umbrage, director of the private enterprise Park.

According to him, the real reason for trying propihnut this rule relates to the intent to hang on marshrutchikov additional charges for the maintenance of the systems stops. It was repulsed and the attempt to entrust the organization of the competition, as well as the failure to verify the reliability of the information submitted, including the amount of investment commitments, Service Transport KSCA. Indeed, the very condition of the material base of applicants will be carried out with the compulsory tender committee members, not just Kyivpastrans. All words must all bidders on an equal footing and does not allow the leak into the market unscrupulous competitors.

conflict rules
 

hot debate about the mandatory presence of a carrier's satellite navigation system and its connection to the system of unified management of traffic movement in the capital before the end of 2010, as proposed in the draft local regulations. The views of the carriers on this issue are mixed. Some entrepreneurs have already started to install on their machines, the equipment, but most do not see the need, or simply not ready for such a step. But the first and second opposed to connecting the system to the network operations center, as the fear that innovation may be used by authorities in fiscal purposes (fair note that dispatching will streamline traffic, especially during peak hours, so to speak only about the excessive care Entrepreneurs, in our view, unfairly. - Ed.).

However, these arguments for the commission is not affected. If within the specified time requirement will not be enforced, KSCA, in the words of the Chief of Transport Alexander Kozlovsky, will terminate the contract and to stand vacant routes to competition. Businesses also require the authorities to exclude the possibility of leakage of unwanted information and clarification, to whom will be dispatching (one-time costs for the purchase, installation and maintenance of the equipment could constitute not less than $ 2 thousand for the same machine. - Ed.). The officials, while, the truth, in words, promise to provide equipment for rent on the friendly rates.
    

stumbling block in the draft document has become the norm on the right of the city authorities to change routes. Remember: most recently, this has caused conflict between the carriers. In mid-May 2009 MP Kyivpastrans by changing the route network of 29 routes and paving of the most profitable areas of private companies, appealed to the KSCA a request to transfer them to the level of business, intending to pick corn from the entrepreneurs.
Given

emotions, Kyiv Transport Commission adopted a compromise solution: the authorities can change the route at its discretion, temporarily and in case of force majeure. By the way, the conflict is far from exhausted. As described BUSINESS carriers in early June, several companies, daring to offer himself as a temporary carrier to the disputed taxi routes, the Metropolitan Transportation received notification of the appointment of head checking the availability of reserve vehicles for service data routing.
   

Once our lawyers have demonstrated that the request for the appointment of a temporary carrier for the new route (for up to three months before the competition) may not be the basis for planned or unplanned inspection, the General Directorate of Transport and Communications KSCA notified our company has planned to conduct verification of compliance of conditions of existing contracts, - said Gennady umbrage. Interestingly, the routine checks at many enterprises have already carried out in April and May of 2009, as evidenced by entry in the audit logs of these firms. Even if we consider that the carriers assigned to a group of business entities with a high-risk, routine checks they may be held once a year.
     In addition to the 01.06.09, under the auspices of the Carrier at the obstinate company selectively start to press and GAI. For example, in the words of Valery Lipetsk, the drivers for minor violations have been removed passes inspection. In doing so, any requirements on the removal of violations, as required by the Cabinet decree on temporary restrictions on the check, he said, is not issued. Unfortunately, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which there is a structure having the right to conduct such tests as controlling, rather than law enforcement agencies, while states that restrictions on the check they are not affected.

What to expect

Entrepreneurs talk about the effectiveness of the new rules are not in a hurry. Indeed, despite the fact that most of their demands were satisfied, in the hands of KSCA remained powerful leverage, for example, harmonization of tariffs, the introduction of mandatory dispatch, the formation of the network, etc. Officials were unwilling to allow entrepreneurs to market conventional transport, which is spinning budget. And because the model contract, which could put the business on an equal footing with kommunalschikami in price reductions, the market will see neskoro.

Moreover, as recognized by the General Director of the KP Kyivpastrans Nikolai Lambutsky, in the coming years, the authorities intend to reduce the amount of capital private routes. Note that the capital's authorities have repeatedly stated this, napiraya on bulk procurement of high capacity buses. In fact, in most European capitals as the bus does not have any class. But Kiev, where there is a lack of public transport, so in the near future is not threatened - otherwise the market would simply transport arose.

However, in the case of Kyiv compromise the competitive environment, the authorities will be obliged to stand for the competition, and driving a normal movement. Naturally, make Kyivpastrans competition in this market segment can only large operators. Therefore, at the end of this year, the market is expected to combine several private companies.

 

Carrier - about the intentions of the authorities

Gennadij umbrage, director of the private enterprise Park:

- note that in 2008 Kyivpastrans sought about 1 billion UAH. grants, but did not manage to get the full amount due to the crisis. At the same time last year KSCA increased fares on public transport by 3 times. And this year, the wholesale conversion to buses with a common mode of transport for business. Private carriers also have survived without subsidies from the budget and not asking for a dime. And this is a very bad situation for officials and leaders of public transport, constantly napirayuschih that passenger traffic on the nature of its unprofitable and will always be so. Since entrepreneurs have proved the opposite, they are planning to redraw the market with the help of written under the tender conditions.

officials - on the network

Lambutsky Nicholas, general director of the KP Kyivpastrans :
    

- Prior to 2012, route network in the capital will change radically. Of the existing маршруток market may remain no more than three hundred. Change the structure of traffic flow: in all likelihood, the capital market will grow by saturation of the routes is a normal movement. I do not deny that private carriers have the right to work on those routes, but on the set of capital rules.