Gábor NemeczHead of Department

Department of Investment and Technical Development

Status and development of BKV

Forum for Sustainable Mobility and Metropolitan Development

Alba Iulia , 8-9 April 2014

Contents

The history of public transport in Budapest

Operational environment of BKV

BKV as provider

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4. Investments, developments

The history of public transport in Budapest

1.

• In 1922 the Budapest Metropolitan Transport Company Limited (BSZKRT) was established.

• BSZKRT ceased to exist in 1949.

• The Budapest Transport Company was established on 1st January 1968.

• From 1968 to 2010 BKV provided all tasks concerning traffic management, schedule, supervision, operating, maintenance and restoration.

SERVICE ORDER

• Transport management

• Schedules

• Traffic management

• Sales - controlling

• Tasks concerning the traffic control and the transaction of complex transport development projects

• Parts of costumer service

CONTRACT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES

CONTRACT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES

•8 years

•Orderes services: bus, raibound (tram, subway, suburban railway, trolleybus) and boat service

•Finance: compensation

PROVIDER

• Maintenance and development of vehicles and infrastructure

• Operation of vehicles and infrastructure

• Insurance of drivers and repairmen

• Assistance in BKK projects

OTHER PROVIDERS

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Operational environment of BKV

Number of passengers (in 2013)

Bus37%

Tram29%

Subway23%

Trolleybus5%

Suburbanrailway

6%

Altogether: ~1 350 millionPer day: ~3 millions

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Rolling stock (30th September 2013.)

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1 000

1 500

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Bus Tram -Cogwheel

Subway Suburbanrailway

Trolleybus

1263

624

414294

145

Number of vehicles

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BKV faces significant losses in market and starts disadvantageously in the contest, because of the new model

The traffic performance started to decline because of the new bus operating system.

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

70,000

80,000

90,000

100,000

Villamos + Fogas Trolibusz Autóbusz HÉV

Metró + MFAV

Thousand useful vehicle km

It is very impotrant in order to assure the efficiency of BKV to lessen the effects of the diminishing performance.

3.

BKV’s service performance

(Thousand place km)

3.

2009. 2010. 2011. 2012. 2013.0

1,000,000

2,000,000

3,000,000

4,000,000

5,000,000

6,000,000

7,000,000

8,000,000

9,000,000

BusSubway, MFAVTramSuburban RailwayTrolleybus

Services of BKV

AgglomerationBudapest

Supplying public transport

3.

Bus

Trolleybus

Tram

Subway

Suburban railway

Boat

Bus

Suburban railway

To raise the service niveau: • Procurement of new vehicles • Procurement of modern and low-floor second-hand vehicles

(bus, trolleybus)• Boat line on schedule • Modernization of suburban railway station and interior• Improving the bicycle transport possibilities in cogwheel

vehicles • Infrastructural restorations, modernizations, change of

superstructure on Grand Boulevard • Platform modernization

Optimalization of the transport net (Connected tramlines on Buda, coordinated transport with railroad and long-range bus services)

Ensuring equal opportunity

Giving prominence to environment (CNG buses)

Energy saving (T5C5 drive modernization, recuperation)

Possibilities to keeping the passengers

3.

Division of labour in developments between BKK and BKV

SERVICE ORDER: BKK

PROVIDER: BKV

Strategy – Planning – OrderingTicket and pass sales –

Ticket and pass controllingTraffic management

External communication

Finance

Defining and guidance of developments

Assistance in BKK projects concerning public transport

Financial resources for BKV are granted by BKK under the

circumstances fixed in the Contract of Public Services

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2014: procurement of second-hand and new busesS

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• Procurement of 37 second-hand Van Hool CNG (compressed natural gas) buses from Dijon, that starts operating gradually this spring in the South-Pest region of the capital.

• Procurement of 25 +20% second-hand, low floor, diesel, articulated buses

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• PKD construction: 3 + 500% new Ikarus buses, BKV as assembler

• Procurement of 15 + 400% low-floor new solo bus is initiated (diesel / diesel-hybrid / electric)

37 Van Hool A330 CNG 3+15 Ikarus V127

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We manufacture trolleybuses with the re-use of available equipment and the complex restoration of the Tatra trams start this year

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The construction of the trolleybus prototypes (reusing discarded bus bodies and trolleybus electronics) starts this year. The vehicles will be 12 meter long, double axled, low-floor, air-conditioned and capable of self-propelling.

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N The restoration and the modernization (with modern drive and control, new door control, new interior) of 25 (out of the 240 units) Tatra T5C5 vehicles from the 1980s begins in 2014.

3 IK 412.81 GT trolleybus 240 Tatra T5C5 tram restoration

4.

M4 subway – a new line in the transport of Budapest

• The length of the new metro line of Budapest: 7,4 km

• Kelenföld railway station – Keleti railway station

• 15 new Alstom train, each of 4 walk-through units

• The stations are located between 14,5 and 31 meters deep underground.

• The budget of the project: 452,5 billion forints

4.

Kálvin square

Bikás park

Architizer A+ awards

Szent Gellért tér and Fővám tér Stations of Metro 4 won the competition of Architizer.com architectural portal.

Both the professional jury and the public found the Budapest stations as the best in bus- and railway station category.

POP & JURY

Curiosity

The public transport of Budapest holds multiple records:

• The 4 and 6 tram lines are Europe’s busiest lines, more than 200.000 people uses them per day.

• The Siemens Combino Supra Budapest NF12B tram was the world’s longest walk-through tram, when it started operating

• The M1 subway of Budapest was the first operating subway in the world.

• The tram line 2 appears 7th on National Geographic’s top 10 list in the book Journeys of a Lifetime.

Thank you for your attention !