Ilya Petoushkoff
transport planner / project manager
contact
petoushkoff@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/petoushkoff
+61452518837
portfolio
https://issuu.com/ilyapetoushkoff/ docs/ilya_petoushkoff_portfolio
education
Specialist Degree (5 years) – Management (Management in Transportation)
State University of Management, Moscow, Russia, 2014
skills
Strategic transport planning
Public transport networks and infrastructure
Rail infrastructure planning
Interchange hubs and TOD
Street design and public space
Movement and place
User experience on transportation
Wayfinding
software
Excel and Office full proficiency
Adobe / Affinity experienced (maps)
Remix, Conveyal experienced
QGIS basic knowledge
AutoCAD read and review layouts
industry memberships
Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management Ltd (AITPM) –Member (No.8161 till April 1st, 2024)
languages
Russian native English PTE 90, IELTS 8.5
ქართული
interests
Urban mobility
Classical music (incl. contemporary)
Languages Design and Art
Piano playing professional level
location & work rights
Richmond, Victoria, Australia
482 visa – nomination transfer required
190 visa (Victorian PR) pending approval
profile
Ilya is a professional transport planner with ten years of experience specialising in strategic mobility planning, public transport planning, and interchange hub development.
His portfolio includes projects in mass rapid transport development, bus network planning, public space and urban street design, as well as large-scale mixed-use urban development planning.
His strengths in strategic thinking, concept vision, and focus on user experience have been shaped by working in an extremely fast-paced environment of Moscow, one of the largest cities in the world.
added value
- Years of continuous experience with one of the busiest transport systems in the world shaped by delivering projects of highest degree of scale and complexity.
- Global perspective with deep understanding of best practice in planning and design of high-performance urban transportation systems developed by working with industry leaders and multiple international experts.
-Human-centric design approach that treats people, their experiences, and their quality of life as a top priority.
- Deep understanding of multiple urban mobility issues and challenges that Australian cities are yet to face.
key projects / achievements
- In Australia: public transport audit for SEQ & Redlands (QLD), PT planning for Berwick (VIC), Molonglo (ACT)
-Planning and Concept Design Review for three new Moscow Metro lines (two currently under construction).
- Traffic management and public space planning for over 50 interchange hubs of various complexity and scale.
- Central Moscow New Bus Network (over 550’000 daily users).
-Kievskaya Railway Station Public Space Redesign (over 400’000 daily users).
- Public space concept design for 15 Moscow metro stations.
- Strategic transport planning for two large-scale mixed-use urban master plans (3 mln sq.m GFA in total)
experience
Senior Consultant –Transport Advisory
Veitch Lister Consulting | Feb 2023 – Jun 2023
Leading Australian bureau for transport planning and modelling
Providing expertise in public transport planning projects across Australia, including Molonglo new bus network plan development and South East Queensland bus network performance audit.
- Working within multidisciplinary project teams including planners, modellers, economists and engineers on a broad range of projects for local, state and federal government and the private sector.
- Leading the preparation of proposals, reports, and presentations to win and deliver projects.
- Using tools such as QGIS, Conveyal, VLC’s own web-based Planwisely platform and other BI systems to analyse patronage, travel time, demographic, socio-economic and other types of data.
Senior Specialist (in-house consultant) – Interchange Hubs and Transit-Oriented Development
Moscow Metro | Apr 2019 – Oct 2022
Internationally recognised public transport system
Feasibility assessment, planning, and concept design review for three new Moscow metro lines and over 50 interchange hubs of various scale and complexity.
- In-house consulting and expertise in development, review, and amendment of planning documentation for layout design and traffic management in public transport hubs at Moscow metro stations.
- Development and assessment of line and station location options for three new Moscow metro lines, including evaluation of operational and passenger experience in close collaboration with Metro’s planning and operational staff.
- Preparation of brief statements, reports, presentations, and other materials in support of all activities, including those for major stakeholders and senior city officials.
Senior Consultant
MobilityInChain, s.r.l, Moscow office | Sep 2014 – Apr 2019
International bureau for mobility consultancy and transport planning
Representation and support of a Milan-based team of planners and engineers in projects across Russia, including bus networks, large-scale mixed-use developments, heritage site masterplans and many others.
- Direct report to Head of Office and Senior partners of the bureau.
- All-in-one client-facing role, from business negotiations through project management and stakeholder workshops into project delivery.
- Coordination and support of Milan-based project teams with local knowledge, data collection and surveys, understanding and interpretation of local codes, regulations, social and cultural contexts, oral and written RussianEnglish translation.
-Data analysis; production of maps, diagrams, presentations, reports, explanatory notes and other content.
Consultant (on a per-project basis)
Gorodskiye Proekty –Urban Projects (rus.) | Feb 2013 –Aug 2014
Non-Government foundation for sustainable urban development and contemporary urbanism
Project management for independent urban mobility studies and research-based activism.
- Project concept framework development.
- Collaboration with, and assistance to involved local and international experts.
- Contribution of local knowledge to solutions and deliverables.
In Australia
East Brisbane and Redlands mobility study, Queensland, Australia (2023)
Ilya has prepared a comprehensive public transport audit for the study area aimed at informing the larger context of this multidisciplinary project.
The study was aimed at shaping the understanding of public transport network in the study area, including Cleveland railway line together with the local bus and ferry routes, and included activities such as timetable analysis (frequency, span, reliability of the service), analysis of the patronage data (boardings, productivity), isochrone accessibility mapping, and analysis of other aspects of public transport service and infrastructure.
Berwick Activity Centre, Berwick, Victoria, Australia (2023)
Ilya has prepared an overview of public transport network around Berwick, City of Casey, Victoria, Australia, including route network, service span and frequency, infrastructure availability and conditions of walkable access to the bus stops.
A set of policy recommendations aimed at improving the access to the historical core of Berwick, the Berwick Activity Centre, has been developed, including relocation of bus stops, installation of bus shelters and other amenities, introduction of sidewalks and crosswalks, provision of additional bus layover spaces, and route network reconfiguration.
Molonglo Bus Network plan, Molonglo, ACT, Australia (2023)
Ilya has prepared a set of public transport network options for the newly developed area of Molonglo, ACT, Australia. After gathering a comprehensive understanding of multiple developments around the study area (in their scale and staging) and analysing the current public transport provision and service levels (frequency, span), he developed five new potential bus network options, including both rapid and local routes.
Each option was dissected into three stages of incremental implementation; the timing was aligned with both the broader picture of other transportation projects (such as Coppins Crossing Rd upgrade and Canberra Light Rail Stage2) as well as the expected staging of the study area development and the related travel needs. As a short-term solution, however, a concept of minimum viable service changes was introduced.
The report on the outcomes of the study included maps for each of the suggested options, as well as a preliminary assessment of number of vehicles needed to serve each suggested scheme, and estimation of the layover requirements.
Overseas Rail Infrastructure
Moscow metro lines 16, 17, 18 planning and concept design (2019-2022)
Moscow metro is an internationally recognised public transport system. With more than 250 stations on 15 lines, it currently serves 8 million people daily and is among the busiest in the world.
Ilya was invited to collaborate with Moscow metro and Moscow DoT as their in-house consultant and provide his analytical inputs in the planning and concept design for three new metro lines, two of which are by now already under construction.
This included a wide variety of activities, including development and evaluation of line layout options, station locations, station access layouts, as well as project delivery staging for each of the lines involved, and the effects and implications of all these aspects onto operations and user experience. In addition to that, Ilya and the team were responsible for conducting review and developing a set of recommendations and inputs for accessibility and traffic management schemes for each station of these projects (more than 20 in total).
Light rail line feasibility study, Ekaterinburg, Russia (2020-2021)
Ekaterinburg is a major Russian city (over 1 million residents) in the Urals region. As one of the densest and most actively developed cities in Russia, it is getting several new development areas with a strong emphasis on the newly built high-density residential component. In such a typical context for major public transport improvement, the city was looking forward to expanding its highly functional and well-developed light rail network into the newly developed areas.
Ilya was invited by the consortium of Higher School of Economics and internationally recognised Strelka KB urban design bureau to run a feasibility study and a preliminary design exercise for the Novokoltsovsky light rail line. Within the scope of work, several corridor alternatives have been compared, and through a series of workshops with the Main Client, the most suitable option has been selected.
Ilya performed the feasibility assessment and provided preliminary CAPEX estimation for the planned new alignment based on the benchmark of comparable projects, and the OPEX in relation with selected service patterns, meaning routes and frequencies assigned, based on the current national standard for service provision cost estimations set by the Ministry of Transport of Russia.
The detailed design (to be carried out by 3rd party) is expected to be delivered by early 2022, and the construction for the new line is expected to take place in 2022…2024.
Light rail development concept for the city of Omsk (2013)
The city of Omsk, Siberia, Russia, has been struggling with their metro construction project. Despite the effort and the investments already made, the project was too far from being delivered. At the same time, the surface public transport system urgently needed funding for investment, refurbishment, and reconstruction.
At the request of the Governor of Omsk region, “Gorodskie Proekty” took a look into what could have been done to make the use of the already built infrastructure (a station and a bridge across the river) so as to integrate it with the available conventional tram infrastructure and create a citywide light rail rapid transit system.
As a project manager, Ilya assisted an international team of experts (led by Prof. Vukan Vuchic) in the study and the site visit. As a result of the joint effort, a detailed concept case for the solution has been defined and a report has been presented to the Governor.
Interchange Hubs
Kievskaya railway station square redesign (2017-2019)
Kievskaya railway station is one of the greatest historical railway terminals in Moscow. Together with three metro lines, it shapes a major transportation hub which serves over 400’000 people daily.
In 2017, MobilityInChain were invited to develop a complete overhaul for the busy plaza adjacent to the railway station which hosts all pedestrian flows going through the hub together with multiple public transport routes, as well as taxi and parking access to the railway station.
Ilya, together with the team, provided a vision for the new layout, based on which the whole concept has been developed. A set of pedestrian and traffic surveys were carried out to inform the vehicular and pedestrian modelling simulation exercise.
His thorough understanding of the public transport component and pedestrian accessibility helped to develop a proposal which included relocation of bus stops, arrangement of convenient waiting space, bus route grouping, rearrangement of circulation and parking, and other changes.
In summer 2019, Kievskaya railway station square was successfully rebuilt as by the proposed design.
15 stations (2015-2016)
In 2015, MobilityInChain were invited to develop a set of design proposals for public space and traffic management layout for the immediate surroundings of 15 busy Moscow metro stations in different areas of Moscow. A highly visionary project at that time, it incorporated a lot of elements of contemporary urban design developed by the prominent Russian architectural bureau, Wowhaus.
Each space was carefully analysed in terms of urban quality, connectivity, safety, user behaviour, and so on. Aimed at emphasising the public space component over the elements of mobility, the research team was particularly interested in identifying all potentials to diminish the amount of space dedicated to cars, including both low- and high-impact approaches, and turn each study area into a multifunctional urban plaza instead of being merely a functionless asphalted space for the users to traverse.
15 high-quality albums were prepared, each of them containing both the mobility drawings and the architectural concept visualisations for each site.
Public Transport
Central Moscow New Bus Network design (2016)
In 2016, Moscow Department of Transport decided to revise the circulation scheme, and to proceed with a surface public transport improvement project. A consortium of MobilityInChain, Jarrett Walker & Associates, and Urbica Design (data analysis team) was led by MIC project manager Ilya Petoushkoff. Ilya informed the project workflow and the new network design process. During the data analysis phase, Ilya helped to arrange the inflow of data from the client’s side. He helped Urbica Design team to understand the raw data received from various sources and to develop the ways to process, interpret, and represent it correctly. He prepared, content wise and technically, the workshop sessions led by Jarrett Walker, and contributed heavily to the building of consensus around the draft plan. He also provided vision that became the basis of many traffic management solutions that were critical for implementation of the plan.
The project has been managed and delivered under an extremely tight time scale. The plan development was initiated in May 2016, and the first phase of the project implementation took place in October the same year, five-and-a-half months after the kick-off.
The revised network has achieved over 40% in patronage growth and currently serves more than 540,000 boardings daily.
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Street Design
Strategic Mobility Large Masterplans
Strategic Mobility Shopping Malls
Other
Ilya Petoushkoff | Transport planner / Project manager
Moscow Garden ring street redesign (2016)
Garden ring, a 15-km-long major street encircling the historical centre of Moscow, was selected by the Government of Moscow as the key project within the ‘MyStreet’ action plan which envisaged complete street design upgrades.
As an assistant project manager, Ilya defined the project timeline and arranged the work of the design team so that it would fit the incredibly strict and tight deadlines set by the Mayor of Moscow. As a subject matter expert, Ilya provided numerous inputs in the traffic management and street design, including recommendations for a set of key locations.
In particular, his thinking informed the concept layout selection, introduction of bus queue jumps and dedicated maneuvers at key intersections, reintroduction or revitalisation of four major public squares (namely Serpukhovskaya, Zubovskaya, Triumphalnaya, and Krasnye Vorota), linear park extension along Sadovaya-Karetnaya str., and restoration of walkability, including introduction of several missing links.
After a set of minor revisions, the proposed design was approved in 2016. By 2018 the project was implemented in its entirety. With a substantially downsized vehicular component, the redesigned layout provided a safer, more comfortable and more people-friendly urban environment. The project is considered among the most significant urban transformations in the city of Moscow.
ZiL (2014)
The plans to redevelop the area of the dying Soviet industrial giant, the Likhachov Plant, the famous automobile maker known for its trucks (for ‘the masses’) and limousines (for the Soviet elites), have been under consideration for many decades when, finally, in 2012 it ceased to exist and was sold to a private developer to later become the largest urban redevelopment effort in Russia.
In 2014, MobilityInChain were invited to conduct a review and further development of the site’s mobility strategy for the 1st phase of this project comprising more than 140 ha and 2 million sq.m in various typologies of development, including more than 1 million sq.m of high-density residential neighbourhoods.
Ilya acted as a mobility consultant and provided his review and proposals with regards to the local and wide-area road network improvements, public transport (including suggestions for light rail network expansion to the study area) and pedestrian connectivity (including further justification for new pedestrian bridges across Moskva river).
Tushino (2015)
A former airfield site, the study area has been considered as a potential location for further urban development since as far as late 1960s when a ‘placeholder’ ghost metro station was added with the further aim to be opened when the built-up for the new area begins. The latter, however, did not start until early 2010s when the site was finally sold to private developers in three separate lots, one of which was later developed as a stadium, and two others becoming one of the largest urban development projects in Moscow.
With more than 1 million sq.m of urban development, including three ‘clusters’, two being mostly residential and one mostly filled with offices, the project included a set of considerable challenges in finding the appropriate balance between the commercial viability, mobility infrastructure provision, and urban space quality.
Ilya acted as a mobility consultant and provided his vision and strategic proposals on each of the mobility components of the masterplan. His particular contributions include revision of pedestrian connectivity, junction design, street layouts, and a set of proposals for the public transportation scheme.
MEGA / IKEA (2014-2015)
In 2014, MobilityInChain were invited by IKEA to help develop a set of mobility assessments with relation to the potential expansion of two of three of their MEGA malls in Moscow.
As a mobility consultant, Ilya performed wide-area accessibility analysis that included gathering, systemising, and representing data on the current performance of all modes of transportation within the study area and its broader urban context, as well as future urban development plans, including new public infrastructure projects and new private urban development initiatives that would impact the accessibility of the site.
To understand the traffic patterns, he conducted a wide set of traffic counts, parking counts and human behaviour observations, involving up to 50 surveyors in each of the studies. Later on, Ilya also contributed to the development of some of the new road layout options and provided his vision for potential public transportation improvements.
Aviapark (2016)
More than 400’000 sq.m GFA in size, Aviapark is among of the largest shopping malls in Europe. Located in close proximity to the city centre, a major industrial site with heavy freight access, and two large stadiums with numerous events taking place throughout the year, it has been facing a complex set of accessibility challenges from day one of its operation. Given the enormous dimensions of the building, its parking access system has proven to be a challenge, and some of the design features of the building as it had been conceived (such as delivery access and garbage collection) were causing operational difficulties and needed to be addressed.
As a mobility consultant, Ilya developed the wide-area accessibility analysis, conducted traffic and parking surveys to inform the traffic modelling exercise. He also studied and reviewed the building floor plans identifying the critical issues and suggesting workaround solutions to help address the design flaws and support the operational needs of the mall. This included revisions to traffic circulation, including closure of some of the less functional driveways, and redesign of part of the ground floor parking to accommodate access from a then-future metro station nearby, one that was not accounted for with the initial design of the building.
Various contributions to other projects:
Large residential plans, commercial sites, shopping malls, heritage estates, campuses, and other projects involving mobility component analysis and development.
Public transport development master plans, feasibility studies, and other related activities.
Wide area analyses, accessibility studies, traffic and pedestrian counts, and other mobility planning activities.
In Russia: St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Ulyanovsk, Vladivostok, Derbent, Murmansk.
Internationally: Jinan, China; Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania; Buenos-Aires, Argentina; Stuttgart, Germany; Saranda, Albania; Tabanan, Indonesia.
Selected public speaking events:
Central Moscow New bus network communication campaign
Radio Govorit Moskva FM, 2016 & 2017, Moscow, Russia
Public transport interchange hubs and investment in sustainable mobility
Moscow Urban Forum, 2017, Moscow, Russia
Transportation in large cities
Strelka Week in Toshkent, 2018, Toshkent, Uzbekistan
Behind the map: how is public transport relevant and how can we treat it better?
Transit Mapping Symposium, 2019, Maison de la RATP, Paris, France
Rapid development of public transport in Moscow: an overview
TransitCon, 2022, an online public transport conference based in the United States