Ensuring comfort and availability of passenger services
Russian Railways aims to provide a rewarding passenger experience across all regions of presence in Russia. A major priority is making railway infrastructure accessible to all passengers.
For more details see the Passenger Transportation section
Highlights of passenger transportation
Key initiatives until 2025:
- Building an efficient route network and train schedule;
- Promoting high-speed and ultra high-speed railway transport (up to 600 new passenger cars planned to be purchased annually);
- Improving passenger experience, introducing innovations and quality standards (by 2025, the share of e-tickets for long-haul trains will reach 70%);
- Introducing the world's best practices for the development of multimodal transport;
- Introducing standards to provide services to passengers with reduced mobility.
With these initiatives, passenger turnover under the base case scenario will grow to 152.4 bn pkm by 2025.
The number of transported passengers will rise to 1,307.4 M by 2025.
