Transport
The main goal of the transport and road complex ismeeting in full the needs of the economy and the population for the transportation of goods, passengers, and other transport services.The priority areas for the development of transport and communications are the fuller and higher-quality satisfaction of the needs of the city’s economic complex and population for the transportation of freight and passengers, and for the transmission and receipt of various information by means of modern communications.
The issues of transport services for the population of the city of Lutsk and ensuring road traffic safety were actively addressed in 2002–2003.
The Lutsk electric transport enterprise operates on 13 routes that cover the most populated neighborhoods of the city. The rolling stock of the trolleybus fleet numbers 86 units. The enterprise has no opportunity to purchase new trolleybuses, so major repairs of existing trolleybuses are carried out, which makes it possible to keep them in technically sound condition.
The length of the trolleybus lines is 112 kilometers.
Currently, 62 trolleybuses, 6 buses, and about 600 route taxis (minibuses and buses) operate on the city's routes, used by business entities of various forms of ownership.
The total length of the public road network is 259.7 km. In 2003, routine and major repairs of the city roads were carried out over a length of 115 km.
About 4,870 people are employed in this industry.
At the request of city residents, new minibus routes No. 3, 4, 17, 17a, 27, 29, and 50 were opened.
With the help of the city’s industrial enterprises and organizations, a number of public transport stops were repaired, and with the involvement of individual enterprises, a number of stops were built. Yarovytsia Street was opened to motor traffic, which made it possible to redirect suburban and intercity motor transport to Naberezhna Street, which in turn helped relieve the central streets of the city from motor traffic.
In 2003, motor transport enterprises transported 392.1 thousand tons of freight and performed 96.5 million ton-kilometers. Privatized enterprises accounted for 75% of the total transportation volume.
Passenger transport of motor transport enterprises performed 77.2 passenger-kilometers and carried 2.6 million people. The average transportation distance increased from 28.7 to 30 kilometers.
Urban electric transport was used by 32.6 million citizens, including 19.1 million paying passengers. Compared with 2002, transportation volumes decreased by 17.7 percent.
The enterprise's revenues from paid passenger transportation decreased by 19.4% and amounted to UAH 3.5 million.
Main problems and issues:
- high degree of wear of fixed production assets, primarily transport rolling stock;
- the unsatisfactory financial situation of enterprises, aggravated by the payment crisis, and the unresolved issue of compensating enterprises for income losses caused by the existing practice of state regulation of tariffs and the provision of discounted passenger transportation;
- lack of adequate budgetary funding for sector expenditures in cases where such funding is provided for by law;
- non-production costs of maintaining the facilities of the sector's own social sphere;
- insufficient volumes of investment in the modernization and development of the sector;
- imperfection of the regulatory and legal support for the sector's activity, slow resolution of issues concerning the unification of transport legislation in accordance with international law;
- insufficient financing of the road complex, including due to the suspension, by the Laws of Ukraine on the State Budget of Ukraine for 2002 and 2003, of the norm of the Law of Ukraine "On Sources of Financing of the Road Economy of Ukraine" regarding the creation of road funds;
- failure to allocate budgetary funds to compensate transport enterprises for lost income from preferential transportation of the population and the absence of a procedure for their distribution among carriers;
- insufficient state support in renewing the rolling stock of transport.
Goals and priority tasks for 2004:
- renewal of main production assets, primarily the rolling stock of transport, and replacement of physically worn-out buses with modern models of rolling stock;
- ensuring safe operation of transport, introduction of resource-saving technologies, improving the quality of transport services;
- performance of works on construction, repair and maintenance of motor roads (according to the plan);
- to build new stops on Voli Ave., in the area of the "Perlyna" store, DPI, TsUM;
- in order to relieve the streets and avenues of the city of Lutsk, fully load bus stations No. 1 and No. 2 (first half of 2004); organize the departure of intercity and suburban buses only from bus stations: Kivertsi and Rozhyshche directions - from bus station No. 1, Lviv and Novovolynsk directions - from bus station No. 2;
- continuation of the repair of the railway station and construction of an overground crossing over the railway tracks to the Zavokzalnyi market, reconstruction of the Station Square;
- introduction of dispatch management and control over the movement of passenger transport.
The volume of freight transportation by road is forecast to increase by 4.8% accordingly.
Financing of measures in the field of housing and communal services is envisaged at the expense of local budget funds. The performance of work in the field is presented as follows
| Indicator | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| In millions of UAH | 13,6 | 17,2 | 22,8 | 32,8 |