Zbornik radova Koridor 10 - Kirilo Savić

3rd International Scientific and Professional Conference
CORRIDOR 10 - a sustainable way of integrations
4. ORGANISATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN SLOVENIA
Public passenger transport in Slovenia is characterised by transported passenger volume not
exceeding one in a big metropolitan agglomeration on one hand, while on the other scattered
population in numerous smaller settlements can’t bear a true comparison to a city passenger transit.
Two modes of public transport – bus and train score together app. 65 million vehicle kilometres and
nearly 90 million passenger journeys on a yearly basis. Only few population centres in the country
make a proportion of 1.200 vehicles in regional bus and train services vs. 300 in city transport far in
favour of long-distance or inter-urban transport.
Organization of public transport can be analysed through entities and processes playing role in
management, planning, financing and determining of the price of public transportation products.
Unification of a ticketing system implies also unification of entities and processes in the overall system.
In Slovenia today city public transport is entirely covered by bus lines and managed by municipalities.
Currently, city transport services are organized in 11 municipalities, operated by several transport
operators (concessionaires). With one exception these operators also provide regional bus services.
The regional bus public transport is managed by the Ministry of Transportation and operated by 39
transport operators (concessionaires). Passenger rail transport is managed by the Public Agency of
the Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport, entrusted for publishing of "network statement" and
train paths allocation. Passenger rail transport services are operated by Slovenian Railways as a
single service provider.
Figure 2: The management of public transport in the Republic of Slovenia [1]
Involvement of different managing authorities in public passenger transport entails diversification of
public transport funding and subsidizing and thereby diversification of implementation of planning and
provision of services as well as development policies among ministry, state and municipality bodies as
well as operators.
Planning of city public transport is done exclusively by municipalities imposing the plans to the bus
operators. In regional bus service, on the contrary, planning is done by concessionaires trying to
answer and balance the needs of municipalities, passengers and private sector, thus letting the
Ministry of transport only the minor role. Planning initiative in railway transport is born by Slovenian
Railways being also entrusted for compliance with international timetables. The Agency of the
Republic of Slovenia for Railway Transport only endorses the timetables.
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