The urban passenger carrier in Russia traditionally has a heightened social significance. It is connected to rather a low quality of private vehicles and considerable fraction of the passengers having the rights of preferential travel according to their social status. Therefore reforming of public transport has a some of features. In the paper, the outcomes of reforming of public transport in Rostov-on-Don are reviewed. The purpose of reforming - change of policy with a high scale of municipal participation on policy oriented on the market, permitting to lower load on the municipal budget. These problems were decided on the basis of the analysis of directions of reforming of a management system of an urban passenger carrier in other countries, analysis of legitimacies of change of operational parameters, forecasting of change of conditions of transportation on the basis of methods of mathematical modelling and optimisation.
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