The transition to domestic software and equipment led to a malfunction of transport services in St. Petersburg

2023: Failure of transport services in St. Petersburg

In early September 2023, transport services in St. Petersburg began to work with failures. The city authorities explained this by updating the IT infrastructure - the transition to Russian equipment and software.

As part of import substitution, work is underway to switch to modern domestic hardware and software solutions. During the transition, there may be short service interruptions. The emerging difficulties are quickly solved together with manufacturers of equipment and software, - said the Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg (quoted by D-Russia).

The transition to domestic software and equipment led to a malfunction of transport services in St. Petersburg

Director of the city information and analytical center Andrei Maksimenko on the air of the TV channel "St. Petersburg" said that technical problems were associated with a partial malfunction of the equipment, because of this it was not possible to replace it in the planned time. Duty and response teams have been working for several days to finish the work.

Specialists are engaged in reconfiguring the service, it is expected that soon they will be able to stabilize the system. Also, the city is updating the city data center.

We have started the most serious block for the modernization of the data center in the city on the Neva. It includes import substitution of the most vulnerable and most important nodes of both software and hardware systems, - warned Andrei Maksimenko.

As the publication "Business Petersburg" writes on September 12, 2023, problems with payment for parking have been recorded for the entire last week. Representatives of the parking management center explained the technical difficulties by the citywide failure of the information systems of St. Petersburg. The failure also affected the tracking system of public transport in St. Petersburg.^[1]

2011: City transport portal opened in St. Petersburg

On March 23, 2011, a visiting meeting was held at the City Passenger Transport Management Center in St. Petersburg on the introduction of modern information technologies in urban passenger transport based on the GLONASS satellite system.

The meeting was attended by the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko, Vice Governor Yuri Molchanov, Chairman of the Transport Committee Stanislav Popov, Director of St. Petersburg State University "Transportation Organizer" Vladimir Mikhailov.

The Integrated Transport Automation System (SCAT) implemented in the city is a joint development of Budget Financial and Technologies (BFT) and CSBI Group. The system is a comprehensive software and hardware solution based on GLONASS technology, which allows you to automate all stages of transport infrastructure management of a large municipal (formations or region).

According to Valentina Matvienko, the system allows you to strictly control the work of public transport, and by increasing competition among carriers, the visibility of their work, it also allows you to save funds from the city budget. Last year, more than 200 million rubles were saved on subsidies to transport enterprises. In addition, the public transportation management system provides for monitoring the safety of passengers. The governor noted that this year the work of public transport, the regularity of routes have improved significantly compared to last year.

Within the framework of SCAT development in St. Petersburg for 2011-2012, it is planned to:

• Implementation of information ("social") services for the population: Internet portal of urban passenger transport, service SMS-informing about the movement of vehicles on routes, phased installation of information boards at stopping pavilions;
• Introduction of operational control of the movement of vehicles from the Urban Passenger Transport Management Center.

Since March 6, 2012, the City Transport Portal of St. Petersburg has been opened on the Internet: http://transport.orgp.spb.ru. With its help, passengers can track the movement of ground passenger transport and plan their movement around the city. The creation of the portal became possible thanks to the work of the SCAT comprehensive transport automation system, which uses global satellite navigation systems GLONASS and. GPS SCAT allows you to monitor the implementation of public ground transport in St. Petersburg. The main executor of this large-scale project is the St. Petersburg CSBI Group of Companies, which since 2009 has been developing and implementing SCAT in the northern capital.

Portal services provide the opportunity with a short delay (up to 50 seconds) to receive information about where the desired vehicle is located and determine the estimated arrival time for a particular stop. Information on the location of rolling stock is based on the received operational navigation data, taking into account the current transport situation. The capabilities of the resource allow the portal user to plan his trip. To do this, you need to specify the starting and ending point, and the system will automatically give the result: how many stops you need to pass, whether transfers are required, how much you need to pay for the trip. At the same time, the route itself is displayed on the map: the first point is indicated as "start," the final point is indicated as "finish."

At the first stage, the portal works in test mode (up to 500 users at the same time) and displays the bus routes of the state unitary enterprise Passazhiravtotrans. However, in the near future all routes of electric transport, as well as commercial carriers of St. Petersburg, will join this number.

In order to make the resource more convenient, the Committee on Transport of the Government of St. Petersburg accepts the appeals and wishes of the townspeople on the development of the portal. Users can leave their offers through their Personal Account after registering on the portal.

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