Transport and communication

In 2003, motor transport enterprises transported 392.1 thousand tons of freight and 2.6 million passengers; 32.6 million citizens used urban electric transport; communications enterprises provided services worth UAH 38.9 million in January-November. In 2003, the railway station "Lutsk" transported 599.6 thousand tons of freight and 809.8 thousand passengers.

Compared with last year, freight transportation increased by 13.9%, but in December compared with November it decreased by 2.3 percent.

The average distance of transportation increased from 179 km in 2002 to 246 km in the current year (due to international transportation).

Privatized enterprises performed 75% of the total volume of transportation.

Passenger transport of motor transport enterprises performed 77.2 million passenger-kilometres and transported 2.6 million people. Passenger transportation decreased by 9.6% compared with last year, but in December compared with November it increased by 5 percent.

The average distance of transportation increased over the year from 28.7 km last year to 30 km in the current year.

Privatized enterprises performed 89% of the total volume of transportation.

According to estimates, 22.1 million people were transported by the motor transport of individual entrepreneurs, which is 1.7 times more than in 2002.

In 2003, about 600 route taxis operated in the city on 31 city routes. The route network covers practically all districts of the city. The replacement of old Soviet-made cars with more comfortable vehicles of domestic and foreign manufacture is proceeding intensively. Currently, about 90% of buses and minibuses on the routes are of foreign manufacture. In 2003, route taxis transported 8,240 thousand people.

The Lutsk electric transport enterprise operates on 13 routes that cover the most populated districts of the city. The rolling stock of the trolleybus fleet totals 86 units, of which 52 trolleybuses run every day. The enterprise has no possibility of purchasing new trolleybuses, therefore major repairs of the existing trolleybuses are carried out.

The length of the trolleybus lines is 112 kilometres.

32.6 million citizens used urban electric transport, including 19.1 million paying passengers and 13.5 million people in privileged categories. Compared with last year, transportation volumes decreased by 17.7 percent. The enterprise's revenues from transporting paying passengers decreased by 19.4% and amounted to 3.5 million hryvnias.

Communications enterprises provided services worth UAH 38.9 million in January-August, of which UAH 20.2 million were to the population.

Compared with last year, the total cost of services provided in actual prices increased by 12.3 percent.

According to the order of the city mayor, control was exercised over the performance of work on the improvement of the territory of subordinate organizations.

With the assistance of industrial enterprises and organizations of the city, a number of public transport stops were repaired; with the involvement of individual enterprises, a number of stops were built; necessary transport was allocated for servicing various events of both a political and social nature. Transport was constantly allocated for transporting disabled children in connection with the holding of the Year of Disabled Persons in Ukraine.

According to the report of the TsOSPP of OJSC "Ukrtelecom", as of 01.01.2004 in the city of Lutsk the number of wire broadcasting subscribers was:
- for natural persons - 42,356 subscribers
- for legal entities - 47,783 radio points
- installed for natural persons - 83 radio points
- installed for legal entities - 9 radio points

No.	Operator name	Queue	Incl. beneficiaries	Installed in 2003	Incl. to the population, incl. preferential	Construction plan
1	Ukrtelecom	9706	2136	1800	1573 (168)	5200
2	Utel	427	43	306	144 (14)	10000
3	Fotakom	-	-	795	(19)	1000
4	Total:	10178	2179	2901		16200