Lvivelectrotrans (Lviv communal enterprise "Lvivelectrotrans", LKP "Lvivelectrotrans" ) is a city

monopolist A monopoly (from Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a speci ...

in the field of electric transport of

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, a municipal enterprise owned by the Lviv community and is the operator of trams and trolleybuses in the city. As of early 2022, Lvivelectrotrans operates trolleybuses and trams. The company also uses 1 electric bus (Electron E19) on trolleybus routes. As of September 1, 2022, the network includes 7 tram routes. The length of the tracks and contact network is 81.85 km (2022), and the route network is 99.1 km (2022). In 2021, trams performed 3.79 million km of transportation work. The trolleybus network includes 11 routes. The length of the contact network is 136 km (01.2023), and the length of the route network is 169 km (01.2021). In 2021, trolleybuses performed 3.29 million km of transportation work. At the end of 2021, 24,678,300 paid passengers (including 2,785,623 students) used the services of trams and trolleybuses.

Description

The head office is located in Lviv on Sakharov Street. Under the leadership of LCE "Lvivelectrotrans", there is one

tram A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...

way, one trolleybus depot, a car repair workshop, a railroad service and a power network of the contact network. In March 2010 the company was ranked third in the rating of the best electric transport enterprises in

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. It is a loss-making enterprise, because the state authorities only compensate 60% of the cost of transportation of privileged categories of passengers. In order to remedy this situation, a composting system was introduced from 2008, which allowed a significant reduction in the number of personnel of the enterprise. All the conductors were released, instead the staff of controllers was recruited (40 people, which is several times less than the number of conductors). To reduce the number of "rabbits" - unpaid passengers - a large-scale advertising campaign is being conducted.

History

So, in November 2008, the advert of "Do not be the killer of Bandera" started, the main

slogan A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a clan, political slogan, political, Advertising slogan, commercial, religious, and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose, with the goal of persuading members of the publi ...

s of which were "Do not be like the killer of Stepan Bandera!" And "Betrayal of Ukraine begins with an unpaid travel!". The ideological basis was that the assassins of Stepan Bandera and Bohdan Stashinsky, had been recruited by the

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

for unpaid travel. Postcards describing this story and campaign slogans came to the home addresses of Lviv's citizens. Between 2009 and 2010 a campaign was carried out of advertising "Lviv - the city of lions, not rabbits," in which No.1028 tram and

trolley bus A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...

No.574 received a topical external design, which based Lions on being "courteous passengers who pay travel and rabbits hiding from the controllers".

Projects

Currently Lvivelectrotrans implementing several development projects with loans from

EBRD The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991. As a multilateral developmental investment bank, the EBRD uses investment as a tool to build market economies. Initially foc ...

and

EIB The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit ...

. In particular, the purchase of new modern low-floor trolleybuses (50 units of

Electron T19 The Electron T19 is a Ukrainian low-entry trolleybus, mass-produced since 2014. The model is commonly used in many cities of Ukraine. Description Cabin The body of the trolleybus is a one-welded low-floor wagon type. It is made of ordinary s ...

) and trams (10 units of

Electron T5L64 Electrotrans ( uk, "Електронтранс") is a Ukrainian-German enterprise that was established in 2011 by Electron Corporation, TransTec Vetschau GmbH (Germany) and Avtotechnoproekt LLC. History * November 11, 2011 - after the destru ...

). In recent years there were projects with EBRD on infrastructure reconstruction and rolling stock procurement, in particular 30 used trams Tatra KT4D from Berlin (BVG).

References

External links

* {{commonscat-inline, Trams in Lviv
Official website of Lvivelectrotrans
Transport in Lviv Tram transport in Ukraine

Description

History

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