Proposals for Legislative Improvement of the Legal Regulation of the Infrastructure of Stopping Points for Conventional and High-Speed Tram Systems in the Russian Federation

The article presents proposals for the creation of a new regulatory legal act, as well as amendments to current legislation in order to increase the effectiveness of regulating the requirements for equipping the light-rail tram transport infrastructure in the Russian Federation. The development of light rail transport in the form of highspeed trams and light metro in the cities of the Russian Federation can provide the population with more predictable and spacious public transport with greater carrying capacity. Technological solutions used in the construction and operation of light rail transport systems affect the parameters of predictability, speed, accessibility, awareness and carrying capacity. Logical, comparative, empirical, analytical, historical-legal, descriptive and other methods were used as the main methods of cognition during the research. The scientific novelty of the study was the following conclusion: in order to increase the effectiveness of the legal regulation of light rail transport in the Russian Federation, it is necessary to introduce multiple changes to the conceptual framework governing tram transport, as well as to consolidate the basic technical and infrastructural characteristics of this type of transport. It is necessary to change the legal definition of the concept “high-speed tram”, as well as expand the list of its technical and operational characteristics. In order to increase the efficiency of the entire transport system, it is necessary to formulate the basic mandatory requirements for equipping tram stops, fixing them in a special regulatory legal act regulating the operation of public transport in its entirety. The authors also propose that separate legal acts regulate measures to bring existing tram transport stops into their regulatory state, as well as the procedure for financing these measures.

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