An expert spoke about the growth of motorization in Moscow and the Moscow region
Since 2022, the number of cars of Muscovites and residents of the region has increased by 340 thousand and reached 8.8 million cars. Such data was presented by Sultan Zhankaziev, Head of the Department of "Traffic Organization and Safety, Intelligent Transport Systems" of MADI.
According to him, in less than 10 years, the number of cars has increased by 1 million. In 2015, there were 7.7 million cars in Moscow and the region, in 2022 - 8.5 million, and in 2024 this figure reached about 8.8 million.
"The growth of motorization is noticeable not only by the number of registered cars, but also by the traffic flow on individual highways. Thus, today, on average, about 400 thousand cars per day pass through the FFM. This is almost 1.5 times more than in 2022, when the road was just opened," the expert noted.
He added that many vehicles are registered in the capital region every year. "When residents have a wide network of roads near their homes, and we have the FFM connecting 48 districts, they can move by car, having a convenient infrastructure at their side," Zhankaziev emphasized.
The Moscow High-Speed Diameter (MHD) is one of the three most popular highways in the city. The expressway connected the largest outbound highways of the capital: Dmitrovskoye, Altufievskoye, Yaroslavskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye highways, as well as the toll M-12 "Vostok", Ryazansky and Volgogradsky avenues, and the Enthusiast highway.
As Zhankaziev pointed out, thanks to the emergence of new highways and optimization of traffic on the roads, the average speed of personal transport in Moscow has increased by 24% since 2010. In addition, a large number of different types of urban transportation are available in Moscow: metro, MCC, MCD, ground public transportation with a wide network of dedicated lanes. "Moscow has unprecedented rates of construction and expansion of the rail framework - metro and suburban railroad. At the same time, new stations and lines are being built with spare capacity for decades to come," Zhankaziev noted.
