VERKHNYAYA PYSHMA (Sverdlovsk region), February 16 A dynamic pricing system will be on the high-speed railway (ВСМ) Moscow — St. Petersburg, Sberbank head German Gref told reporters after a meeting with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin on Thursday held a meeting in Verkhnyaya Pyshma on the development of high-speed rail traffic. Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Vitaly Savelyev reported on the Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed railway project. He said that a prototype of a Russian high-speed train should be created in 2026, the first 28 such trains should be completed by 2028. Minister, that the time between Moscow and St. Petersburg along the HSR will be 2 hours 15 minutes, between Moscow and Tver — 39 minutes, between St. Petersburg and Veliky Novgorod — 29 minutes. He also added that the pilot project for the construction of a high-speed railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg will be implemented on the principle of public-private partnership based on a concession agreement.
«There will be a dynamic pricing system, and (price) depending on the number of stops, because trains will run there every 15 minutes. Therefore, everything will be very dynamic,» Gref said.
Responding to journalists’ remark that with the advent of high-speed rail, “airplanes will die,” the head of Sberbank noted that “they will not die.”