MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURE OF UKRAINE KYIV GRAND RING-ROAD PROJECT OVERVIEW March 2016 The project divided into several segments, the highest priority are: - Chop – Odessa 32,1 km - Odessa – Luhansk 22,9 km - Luhansk – Kharkiv 35,4 km The segment Chop-Kharkiv will connect Odessa highway with Boryspil airport The total road length Chop-Kharkiv segment is 93,5 km 4 lanes, 12 transport interchanges in two levels Total length Timeline 1 bridge across the Dnipro River and 3 small 214,1 km 4 years bridges 1 Facilitate transit through Ukraine’s 3 international and 4 national transport corridors Shorten transit time, decrease transport and environmental impact on city roads Improve regional transportation infrastructure Facilitate the development of Ukraine’s economy through ripple effect of road construction Increase traffic safety 2 Free trade zone with EU beginning 1 January 2016 stimulates trade and freight flow Ukraine’s loation provides for ideal trade hu to EU, Middle East and Asia Ukraine’s exports to EU rose to 13% of GDP-2014 Visa free regime with EU will enable free flow of labour and simplify passenger travel 3 4 The most intensive traffic is in Kyiv KYIV region The traffic flow across Kyiv reached 30 000 cars per day (estimated in 2010) Today the freight traffic is moving from Odessa and Yuzhnyy seaports via Kyiv to Europe 5 Kyiv-Ovruch Kyiv-Chernihiv Segments of the project: Kyiv-Kovel Kovel – Chop: 18,1 km Chop – Odessa: 35,2 km Odessa – Luhansk: 22,9 km Kyiv-Chop Luhansk – Kharkiv: 35,4 km Kharkiv – Chernihiv: 39,2 km Kyiv-Kharkiv Chernihiv – Ovruch: 35,9 km Ovruch – Kovel: 27,4 km Kyiv-Odessa Kyiv-Luhansk 6 Kyiv Grand Ring-Road configuration and distance from city center is similar to London and Berlin ring- roads: - Kyiv– Chop: 37 km - Kyiv – Odessa: 27 km - Kyiv – Luhansk: 37 km - Kyiv – Kharkiv: 41 km - Kyiv – Chernihiv: 27 km - Kyiv – Ovruch: 29 km - Kyiv – Kovel: 43 km 7 Highway length, km: 214,1 - new construction 149 - existing highway 65 Highway category ІА Number of traffic lanes 4-6 Bridges, including: 3 - over the Dnipro River: northern bridge (meters) 8220 southern bridge (meters) 4923 - over the Desna River (meters) 1505 Elevated roadways (number/meters) 7 Overpasses and small bridges (number) 50 Grade-separated interchanges (number) 35 Right of Way (land allocation - hectares) 1415 Scope of land works (thousands of sq.m.) 21 840 7 The feasibility study is needed to analyze traffic intensity on highways KYIV-CHOP, KYIV-ODESSA, KYIV-KOVEL and define the most economically viable segment of the project: 1. Chop-Odessa 35,2 km 2. Kovel-Odessa 50,7 km 8 geosynthetic cloth 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Automated measuring the speed of vehicles Automatic weighing of vehicles Automatically informing road users about traffic conditions Weather stations to measure the ambient temperature and the road surface 17 18 19 Aleksandra Klitina Advisor to the Deputy Minister Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine Tel.: +38 044 351 41 13 Mob. +38 099 760 15 78 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Detailed information is available on our investment data on 17 www.mtu.gov.ua/inv .