Following the announcement in Vienna by Deputy Minister of Transport Alexey Tsidenov, Russia is bidding to host the 2018 6456 ITS World Congress in Moscow and the 2016 438 European ITS Congress in Kazan.
75 ITS Russia and the GLONASS/GNSS Forum are part of an organising committee that includes the representatives of the Ministry, Federal Road Agency and city administrations. The committee aims to bring the World and European congresses to Russia for the first time and will start by preparing the Russian business days uring this year’s European ITS Congress in Helsinki.
Kazan is one of Russia’s biggest megacities, the capital of Tatarstan and was founded more than 1000 years ago. It is home to many of Russia’s scientific centres and leading IT/industrial techno-parks and has started smart city deployments.
Moscow is one of the world’s largest and most densely populated capitals. Its transport network carries around 20 million people every day and has recently completed the first stage of construction of an integrated intelligent transport system for the city. A new Moscow ring road and motorway to St. Petersburg will be completed by 2018 as will a new high speed railroad to Kazan.
Kazan is one of Russia’s biggest megacities, the capital of Tatarstan and was founded more than 1000 years ago. It is home to many of Russia’s scientific centres and leading IT/industrial techno-parks and has started smart city deployments.
Moscow is one of the world’s largest and most densely populated capitals. Its transport network carries around 20 million people every day and has recently completed the first stage of construction of an integrated intelligent transport system for the city. A new Moscow ring road and motorway to St. Petersburg will be completed by 2018 as will a new high speed railroad to Kazan.
