The M.L. Petrovich
Laboratory of Urban Planning

Effective solution of transport and planning issues

Ideology

The Laboratory of Urban Planning carries out research and academic projects about transport and territory planning. The Laboratory was created to search new ideas, methods and models of spatial development of russian cities that correspond to new social and economic life conditions in the second decade of the 21st century.

What we do

The Laboratory of Urban Planning carries out projects on the following levels: a hub, a district, a city, an agglomeration, a region, a macroregion, a country.

Transport planning

rograms of complex development of the transport infrastructure
Complex schemes of traffic organization
Complex schemes of organizing the public transport services for population
Rationale for the development of certain modes of transport
Concepts of transport hubs

Strategic and territory planning

Transport parts in:

strategies of social and economic development, territory planning schemes
city master plans
planning projects
urban planning rationale
investment rationale
concept of territory developmen
master plans

Transportation systems research

Transport modeling
Survey and calculation of transport, passenger and pedestrian flows
Analysis of GPS tracks and ticket validation data
Analysis and forecast of socio-economic development of the territory
Organization of sociological studies of mobility of the population

Scientific activity

Organization and holding of academic and practice conferences
Publishing of professional literature
Creation of academic articles
Organization of training courses
Creation and maintenance of the library collection of transport and urban planning literature
Lectures in specialized universities
Organization of internships and practices for students