Source: Moscow Metro
The IV International Transport Summit has kicked off in Moscow, bringing together over 140 experts from 41 cities worldwide this year.
On the opening day, 17 more cities joined the UrbanTransportData initiative led by the Moscow Government. Cooperation agreements for membership were signed by Addis Ababa, Almaty, Astana, Banjul, Freetown, Havana, Harare, Ho Chi Minh City, Kampala, Lilongwe, Lima, Lusaka, Maputo, Mexico City, Nairobi, Windhoek, and Yerevan.
UrbanTransportData is an analytical platform that provides insights into transport metrics across global cities and showcases industry best practices and trends.
“Following the directive of Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, we continue to develop the UrbanTransportData project. Today, as part of the International Transport Summit, 17 more cities from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the CIS have joined the initiative. The project now includes 32 megacities worldwide. Our analytical platform features a professional forum for urban transport experts and an extensive knowledge base for government officials, specialists, students, and researchers,” said Maksim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry.
Additionally, on the first day of the business program, memorandums of cooperation in the transport sector were signed between the Moscow Government and the People’s Government of Beijing, as well as the Moscow Government and the Bangkok Administration.
During the summit, participants will discuss industrial development and the integration of advanced technologies in urban transport, digital passenger services and ticketing systems, autonomous technologies, rail, water, and alternative transport, among other topics.
International guests will explore the operations of regular electric river transport and charging infrastructure, visit the Unified Dispatch Center of the Moscow Metro, the Big Circle Line (BCL), Moscow Central Diameters (MCD), an electric bus depot, the Situation Center of the Traffic Management Center, the Center for Research and Development of Autonomous Transport, and the sites of the Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone.
The cultural program of the summit has been prepared by the Moscow Transport Museum. Participants will visit the “High Underground” exhibition, dedicated to art in the Moscow Metro, and then travel to VDNKh in retro cars for a tour of the “You Look 100!” exhibition on the history of domestic transport design. The program will conclude at the Northern River Terminal. Foreign delegates will also visit the large-scale interactive exhibition “That Very Moscow” at the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege.”