Offers domestic automobile
Today in Ukraine, four major carmakers producing passenger buses. It concerns \u0026quot;Bogdan\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;Etalon\u0026quot;, Kherson plant of Al-torus \u0026quot;and, of course, LAZ. In addition, there are several small industries, specializing in the manufacture, or rather, the assembly of buses, such as Galicia in Lviv Automobile Plant, or \u0026quot;Root\u0026quot; in the Donbass. Concerns \u0026quot;Bogdan\u0026quot; and the \u0026quot;symbol\u0026quot; from time to time attempting to market a domestic version of the average tourist bus passen-zhirovmestimosti (up to 30 seats). These attempts, however, did not enjoy very successful, mainly because that \u0026quot;Bogdan\u0026quot;, and \u0026quot;Etalon\u0026quot; are making their buses on truck chassis. This means that such machines are not provided, for example, air-suspension - absolutely necessary element for a relatively comfortable transportation of passengers on domestic routes.
However, such buses in Ukraine are quite widely distributed, including for transport and tourist groups. However, a full-fledged tourist transport them, no doubt, can not be named.
Kherson plant AntoRus \u0026quot;in the near future to produce transportation for tourists do not intend to. Its leaders have focused on the production of buses of small and medium passenger capacity for urban and suburban transport. However, a few years ago, Kherson manufacturer attempted to establish cooperation with the Polish plant «Autosan» and produce medium-range liner fit to serve groups of tourists, and even provided a sample of such a machine on one show SIA. But this attempt failed. Lviv Automobile Plant produces haul liner NeoLAZ \u0026quot;, as well as tourist\u0026quot; Liner-9 \u0026quot;and\u0026quot; Liner-12 \u0026quot;. \u0026quot;Liner-9, however, probably can be attributed to the coaches of medium-range (ie 300-400 km) than to the tourist. However, the number of cars in Ukraine is insignificant, mainly because of the small capacity production line: their main power LAZ reoriented on production of city buses and trolleybuses. The same can be said about \u0026quot;NeoLAZe\u0026quot;: today it is released under the order, ie, one by one.
As for the small producers, they specialize in large-assembly of buses mainly small (ie, up to 22 seats) class on the basis of truck chassis, and potentially to market tourism technology does not plan to leave.
Improvement of freight transport
In situations where the importation of modern tourist buses charter artificially constrained by high tariffs and taxes, as the domestic auto industry does not have adequate proposals, many carriers and tour operators have to use converted from freight transport. Domestic legislation does not prohibit such transactions: for example, Art. 32 of the Law of Ukraine \u0026quot;About dorozhnsh Rukh\u0026quot; allows conversion of trucks to passenger. Procedure itself, the alteration, as well as the limitations of these operations is governed by the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers № 1388 from 7.09.1998, the \u0026quot;Pro-tverdzhennya rules for dominant! reestratsp is the appearance avtomobshv, avtobuav and Sjá einnig self-propelled machines skonstruyovanih on Schaa avtomobshv, mototsiyuiv VAX tishv, marks the model, pricheshv, nashvpricheshv ta sidecars. \u0026quot;
However, for the tourist traffic of such vehicles may have only limited application. First, reconstructed in the main buses of small class. However, this rule has exceptions: for example, ubiquitous on our roads \u0026quot;Mercedes Sprinter, as well as its close\u0026quot; relatives \u0026quot;such as the Iveco Turbo Daily, Ford Transit\u0026quot; or \u0026quot;Volkswagen LT» can be converted so that in the interior fit up to 20 passengers (some craftsmen managed to put in the lounge and 27 passenger seats). But such a \u0026quot;seal\u0026quot; can only occur at the expense of comfort for passengers: seats are placed close to each other, become more narrow, and so
Addition, the use of the converted transport for tourist traffic has dubious future still in legal terms. Recently, the Cabinet of Ministers with the filing Mintran-ssvyazi has been attempting to substantially limit the use of carriers, and hence the tour operators, such transport. So, last fall the decision of the Cabinet had approved the new Regulation on the transport of passengers by road. One of their sets of items outright ban on the carriage of passengers ex-trucks. Execution of this item was suspended after massive protests carriers earlier this year. Nevertheless, the Transport Ministry, guided by concern for the safety of passenger transportation, not to try to remove converted from domestic road transport. While speaking on justice, professionally converted to a car repair plant \u0026quot;Sprinter\u0026quot; for comfort, as well as \u0026quot;soft\u0026quot; course has significant advantages over, say, the \u0026quot;symbol\u0026quot; in the tourism performance.