Russia’s passenger traffic has been on a decline since 2000. The transportation sector lost about 15% or 3.4bn passengers between 2011 and 2016. The main reason was the economic crisis that erupted in 2014 on the back of collapsing energy prices and the sanctions some Western countries imposed on Russia following its annexation of Crimea. The number of passengers carried in the country in 2016 fell by 2.3% y/y to 18.7bn. Buses were the most preferred mode of transport in the country, accounting for 60% of the passenger traffic in 2016. Subway transport came next with a share of 18%, with the bulk of the traffic concentrated in larger cities, mainly the capital Moscow and St. Petersburg. Some 8% of the passengers in 2016 used trolleybuses, 7% travelled by tram and 6% by train. The railways, however, were the only main transportation mode to register an increase of the passenger traffic in the 2011-2016 period. The number of railway passengers increased by cumulative 10% in the said period and subway passengers inched up by 0.5%. Bus passengers, on the other hand, shrank by 16%, tram passengers fell by a third and trolleybus passengers dropped by 33% between 2011 and 2016. The marine and air passenger traffic also recorded higher demand, the marine passenger traffic expanding eight times between 2011 and 2016, and airline passengers surging by 54% over the same period. However, the marine and air passengers made up just 1% of all.

01 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

02 SECTOR IN FOCUS 

03 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

04 COMPANIES IN FOCUS

05 REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT 

06 ROAD TRANSPORT 

07 RAIL TRANSPORT

08 AIR TRANSPORT 

09 WATER TRANSPORT