In addition, up until 2012 many private owners operated minibus services, after which the City Council established the unified transport company Rīgas mikroautobusu satiksme, establishing a monopoly over the service. Riga International Coach Terminal provides domestic and international connections by coach. As the population of Riga city started to approach 1 million people in the 1980s, the city became eligible (under the Soviet standards of the time) for the construction of a subway system Riga Metro, which would have been paid for by the Soviet government. However, the population decline and shortage of funding following Latvian independence put an end to this plan. Riga is connected to the rest of Latvia by domestic trains operated by the national carrier Passenger Train, whose headquarters are in Riga. The main railway station is the Riga Central Station. It has stops for public transport along the streets Satekles iela, 13. janvāra iela Marijas iela, and Merķeļa iela. There are also international rail services to Russia and Belarus, and plans to revive passenger rail traffic with Estonia. International overnight service is with Latvia Express trains (). A TEN-T project called Rail Baltica envisages building a high-speed railway line via Riga connecting Tallinn to Warsaw using standard gauge, expected to be put into operation in 2024. Latvian Railways ( or LDz) operates the Latvian Rail History Museum in Riga. Universities University of Latvia (LU) Art Academy of Latvia (LMA) Riga Technical University (RTU) Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) BA School of Business and Finance (BA) Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TTI) Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration (RISEBA) Turība University Riga Aeronautical Institute (RAI) Notable people Public service Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas Emil Friedrich von Boetticher (1836–1907) a politician, burgomaster of Riga Friedrich Heinrich von Boetticher (1826–1902) a German publisher, bookseller, scholar and art historian. Deniss Čalovskis (born 1985), Latvian computer hacker who created the Gozi virus. Valdis Dombrovskis (born 1971), a Latvian politician and EU Commissioner Laila Freivalds (born 1942), former Swedish Minister for Justice and Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Juris Hartmanis (born 1928), a Latvian-American computer scientist, won the 1993 Turing Award Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950), a Baltic German philosopher, an important metaphysician Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), a German philosopher, theologian, poet and literary critic Albert Woldemar Hollander