Main article: Moscow
Transport system
Intelligent Transport System
Main article: Intelligent transport system (Moscow)
- Center for Traffic Management of the Government of Moscow (GKU TsODD)
- Navigation and Information Center for the Administration of Freight Road Transport in Moscow
- Moscow Ring Railway (MKZhD)
- Unified Federal Center for Automatic Recording of Traffic Violations (CAFAP)
- NTI Autonet
- Avtodata Platform
- Regional Navigation and Information System (RNIS)
- Smart Traffic Light System
- Transportation Management System Transport Management Systems and Projects
- Fleet management systems Auto management systems Systems and projects
- Vehicle Safety and Control SystemsSystems and Designs
- Satellite Communications and NavigationSystems and Projects
The intelligent transport system of Moscow is one of the most important components of Smart City. In Moscow, these are more than two thousand traffic lights, three and a half thousand traffic monitoring detectors and two thousand video surveillance cameras. Data from them goes to the situation center of the data center, where they are analyzed in real time, which helps to manage the situation on the roads. In the future, this information allows the data center to make a forecast of the road situation, if it is planned to block the street, introduce one-way traffic or open a dedicated lane for buses and trolleybuses.
More than 160 electronic displays on the main highways of the city promptly inform drivers about the weather, estimated travel time (for example, to the Moscow Ring Road or the Third Transport Ring) and traffic congestion. They also display information about a motion constraint or overlap. With the introduction of an intelligent transport system, the number of accidents on the roads of Moscow decreased by almost half. And the average speed has increased by 13 percent, despite the fact that there are much more cars.
The Center for Traffic Management (TsODD) and the Department of Transport and Communications of the city of Moscow have been developing ITS since 2011. ITS consists of two models - static and dynamic.
Static model
The static transport model was created to predict the options for changing the road situation for a long period.
STM takes into account the following introductory:
- the population of the city;
- the population of the district; is
- the age of the inhabitants;
- gender of residents;
- social status;
- employment of the population.
STM algorithms divide each area into transport sections. To study the activity and time of movement of people from one area to another, to clean up the volume of flow, Big Data analysis technologies and sociological surveys are used.
Dynamic model
The dynamic transport model (DTM) tracks many parameters, such as:
- speed and intensity of traffic flows;
- movement of public transport;
- Accident by the degree of significance;
- locations of social facilities;
- road closures.
In addition, using DTM, it is possible to monitor the operation of mobile photo and video recording complexes, etc.
DTM uses data from GLONASS sensors, cameras, transport detectors. The DTM is responsible for the control of traffic lights, analysis of accident foci, etc.
The situation center is an important element of the IT of Moscow.
The Situation Center is responsible for:
- traffic light control;
- control of television viewing cameras;
- monitoring of traffic conditions;
- visual informing of road users;
- photo and video recording of violations.
Public transport
Metro and trams
Main article: Moscow Metro
Mosgortrans: city buses and electric buses
State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans is the main operator of the ground urban passenger transport system in the capital and the largest in Europe.
River transport
Main article: River transport in Moscow
Troika: ticket system
Main article: Troika Ticket system of Moscow
Single Wi-Fi transport network
Main article: Unified Wi-Fi network "Moscow Transport" (MT FREE)
Taxi
Main article: Taxi in Moscow
Car-sharing
Main article: Carsharing in Moscow
Electric cars and charging
Main article: Electric vehicles in Moscow
- Moscow energy is a single IT system that unites all operators of charging stations for electric vehicles
Parkings
Main article: Parking in Moscow
History
2025
The Moscow Department of Transport approved uniform rules for the operation of delivery robots in the city
In November 2025, a single regulation for the operation of autonomous courier robots (rovers) was introduced in Moscow. The corresponding regulatory document was developed by the Moscow Department of Transport. This was announced by the deputy mayor of the capital Maxim Liksutov. Read more here
Mortality in road accidents in Moscow decreased 2.75 times in 15 years to 2.6 people per 100 thousand people
As of 2024, mortality due to road accidents in Moscow is 2.62 people per 100 thousand population. This is stated in the materials released in mid-October 2025. Read more here.
Opening in Moscow the first tram line in Russia without a contact network
The Moscow authorities launched the country's first tram line without a contact network on Akademik Sakharov Avenue, where trams pass a two-kilometer section offline. The new route No. 90 connected Sokolniki with the Paveletsky station and combined 20 stations of the rail frame of the capital. The opening of the line was announced by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on September 10, 2025.
The tram route connected four central railway stations and 16 metro stations and Moscow central diameters. Academician Sakharov Avenue and Masha Poryvaeva Street belonged to the few main streets along which city transport had not previously passed.
About 20 trams of the Lion Cub-Moscow model with an autonomous travel system will enter the new line. The traffic interval will be approximately five minutes, which will provide a high frequency of communication between various transport nodes of the capital.
The Lion Cub-Moscow trams are modern low-floor cars with increased autonomous travel technology. Rolling stock stores energy while driving under the contact network and is able to travel at least four kilometers without it, which exceeds the requirements of the new route.
The first tram of this model arrived in the capital in mid-August 2025. In two years, Moscow will receive 100 such cars, which will fully complete the renewal of the fleet of Moscow trams by the end of 2026, as the mayor noted.
The new trams hold up to 150 passengers and have 41 seats. The cars are equipped with a climate control system, multimedia screens for informing passengers, connectors for charging mobile devices and an address door opening system.
The driver's cab is equipped with the Anti-Son system, which prevents the driver from falling asleep while driving the vehicle. Internal and external video surveillance cameras are installed throughout the carriage to ensure the safety of passengers.[1]
Reduction in the number of car thefts in Moscow from year to year
The number of car thefts and thefts in Moscow has been steadily declining for 13 years. In the first seven months of 2025, 274 cases were recorded, while in the same period of the previous year, 327 such atrocities occurred, and in 2012 - about 7.2 thousand. The corresponding data was published on September 15, 2025 by the Department of Transport and the Development of Road Transport Infrastructure of the city of Moscow. Read more here
2024
Moscow authorities allocate 88 billion rubles for the development of transport in the city
In 2025, the Moscow authorities intend to allocate more than 88 billion rubles from the city budget to update urban transport. The capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced this in mid-October 2024.
According to him, in particular, these funds will be used to replace trains of the "green" metro line and purchase electric buses. In addition, the budget includes funds for the purchase of metro cars for the lines under construction and trains of the Moscow central diameters, Sobyanin specified.
Growth of passenger traffic in Moscow by 6% to 15.44 million trips
In May 2024, the average daily passenger traffic of Moscow city transport reached 15.44 million trips. This is 6% more compared to the same month of 2023. Such data in early June 2024 was published by the Official Portal of the Mayor and the Government of Moscow.
The number of metro trips in May 2024 increased by 4% compared to the previous year - to 7.88 million per day. This is due to the increase in passenger activity. Thanks to the opening of the MTsD-3 and MTsD-4, the number of trips to the MCD (Moscow Central Diameters) rose by 19% on an annualized basis, reaching 1.34 million per day. Through ground urban passenger transport in May 2024, about 4.31 million trips were made daily - plus 8% compared to the same month of 2023.
The activity of taxi users increased by 6% year-on-year - up to 1.71 million trips per day. Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport Maxim Liksutov notes that the taxi sector in the capital is one of the largest and most developed among other megacities in the world. Thanks to government support, the city's taxi fleet is equipped with modern and safe cars: their average age is 3.5 years. More than 90 thousand taxi cars operate in Moscow every day.
In Moscow, introduce the identification and rating of users of electric scooters
Electric scooter rental operators Moscow will introduce user identification and rating in their applications. In addition, testing for knowledge of traffic rules will be carried out. This was announced in mid-March 2024 by the Department transport for the Development of Road and Transport Infrastructure of the Russian capital. More. here
2023
Travel growth to 4.4 billion
In 2023, passengers made approximately 4.4 billion trips on the capital's public transport. For comparison, in 2022 this figure was estimated at 4.1 billion, and in 2021 - at 3.9 billion. At the same time, the intensity of the use of personal transport decreased by 5%. The increase in the number of trips by public transport is associated with the active development of infrastructure: the emergence of new metro stations and the opening of additional ground routes. In general, in 2023, 68% of trips were made by public transport, which is 4% more than in 2022. More and more passengers are choosing this particular type of movement.
Liksutov said when unmanned trams will appear in Moscow
An unmanned tram may begin to run on routes in Moscow in the next couple of years. This was announced at the end of December 2023 to journalists by the deputy mayor of the capital for transport Maxim Liksutov.
 | We are planning and working on autonomous tram travel next [2024] year. The task is to launch an unmanned tram - there will be no person there at all, the tram will completely move itself, - he said. |  |
According to Liksutov, a division of the Department of Transport and Road Transport Infrastructure Development of the city of Moscow is working on the creation of an autopilot for trams. It, in particular, is engaged in writing software and integrating systems.
The Deputy Mayor of Moscow noted that at the first stage unmanned trams will ride with drivers, but in the future this transport will become completely self-driving.
| | At the next stage, we see that there will be no person at all in trams, they will work completely offline, see everything that happens on the road network, predict the behavior of both passengers and drivers. We hope that all these tasks... over the next and 2025, we will fully implement, "Liksutov said at a press conference on December 27, 2023 (quoted by Interfax). | |
He also cited data according to which by the end of 2023 about 600 thousand trips are made on metropolitan trams every day.
In September 2023, Maxim Liksutov said that the unmanned tram project is in development in Moscow, but it will be possible to see a full-fledged automated system that can control the tram in the city no earlier than in 5-6 years. He noted that there are many things to which automation should be able to quickly respond, but for now no one does it better than a person.[2]
The number of cars on Moscow roads decreased by 4%
By the end of 2023, in Moscow, the number of cars traveling on the roads every day decreased by 4%, or 130 thousand units. This was reported in the capital's Department of Transport on December 20, 2023.
According to the ministry, on average, 2.84 million cars pass through the streets of Moscow every day. For comparison, back in 2019, daily traffic was measured at 3.07 million cars. The total number of days when the "high workload" was recorded in 2023 decreased by 28%.
The authorities of the capital explain the trend towards a decrease in the number of cars on the roads by the development of public transport. Since 2019, the taxi service has become 61% more popular, car sharing is developing, new metro stations are being introduced at a high pace, said Maxim Liksutov, vice mayor and head of Deptrans.
| | An affordable alternative to a personal car is being created - urban transport is becoming more convenient, more comfortable and more attractive every year. At the same time, the carrying stock was created for decades to come, - added Liksutov. | |
The development of intracity electric trains contributed to the unloading of city streets: in 2023, two new diameters were introduced - MTsD-3 (Zelenograd - Ramenskoye) and MTsD-4 (Zheleznodorozhny - Aprelevka). At the same time, according to the traffic police, the number of cars registered in Moscow over the past 5 years has grown by 6% - by the end of December 2023, 8 million vehicles are registered in the capital.
Vice-President of the National Automobile Union Anton Shaparin, in a conversation with Kommersant, noted that Moscow has always been a leader in vehicle fleet growth and renewal, but by 2023 Muscovites have fewer opportunities to buy new cars due to rising prices. According to the expert, the operation of the car is gradually shifting "into a luxury zone or almost a suite."
| | Fuel and service are becoming more expensive, and incomes are not growing at such a pace, "Shaparin added.[3] | |
More than 7 thousand accounts of traffic violators on electric scooters were blocked in Moscow
Since the beginning of the season, more than 7 thousand accounts of violators of traffic rules (SDA) on electric scooters have been blocked in Moscow. This was announced on July 31, 2023 by the press service of the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Transport Infrastructure Development.
| | Our main task is to improve the safety of travel. For users of rental services, internal fines have always been in effect, and for gross violations that caused accidents, or systemic traffic violations, users in services are blocked, "said Maxim Liksutov, deputy mayor of the capital for transport. | |
The Moscow Department of Transport recalled that since March 2023, traffic rules have been in force for all drivers of electric scooters and other so-called means of individual mobility (SIM), their observance is monitored by employees of the Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate. Since the start of the season, more than 15 thousand people have been brought to administrative responsibility for violations, the department added on August 31, 2023.
Yevgeny Litvin, co-chairman of the Road Safety working group within the framework of the regulatory guillotine, recalled in a conversation with Kommersant that regional and municipal authorities are obliged to organize traffic for electric scooters in cities (signs and markings are already in traffic rules), but in fact, few people are engaged, with the exception of Moscow and a number of large cities.
| | The main work should take place on the ground, all tools for this are given, - agrees Vladimir Lugovenko, Deputy Director of the Department of State Policy in the Field of Automobile and Urban Passenger Transport of the Ministry of Transport. - Justifications of restrictions, prohibitions, infrastructure issues - all this is work that falls on local governments.[4] | |
2022
QR Code Payment Launch Plan via SBP
In mid-June 2022, the mayor Moscow Sergei Sobyanin and general director of JSC "" National Payment Card System Vladimir Komlev signed a memorandum of cooperation, within the framework of which it is planned to use (Express Checkout Systems SBP) to pay for travel in the capital. transport
To buy tickets using the SBP, passengers do not need a bank card and NFC technology for wireless data transmission. It will be enough to install one of the banks participating in the SBP on a smartphone mobile application and use the camera to read the QR code.
Car owners in paid parking will also be able to save, the commission when replenishing an account in the Parking of Russia application will be 0.65% and will decrease in the future. For comparison: mobile operators take a commission of up to 5.6%, and banks - up to 1%.
It is planned to introduce the possibility of paying for travel using the SBP at the ticket offices and on the metro turnstiles by the end of 2022, in ground transport and mobile applications of the urban transport complex - during 2023.
By June 2022, payment with the help of the SBP works at the ticket offices of the Big Ring Metro Line and the Parking of Russia mobile application. According to forecasts of the Moscow mayor's office, over time, up to 700 thousand passengers of urban transport will use the payment of travel using the SBP daily.
The memorandum concluded in June 2022 provides for the joint work of the Moscow government and NSPK JSC to further develop instruments for non-cash payment of travel in Moscow transport.
In May 2022, the Bank of Russia began introducing payment in the Fast Payment System using a smartphone with NFC technology. With this option, you can make purchases, for example, in a cafe or store.[5]
Hydrogen buses begin to be tested in Moscow
At the end of May 2022, it became known about the upcoming start of testing hydrogen buses in Moscow. It will be a transport of domestic production.
| | The first samples of hydrogen buses will soon begin to travel experimentally along the streets of the capital of the Russian Federation, "Alexei Kulapin, head of the Russian Energy Agency (REA) under the Russian Ministry of Energy, told TASS, who took part in the 78th session of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), held in the capital of Thailand at the end of May 2022. | |
It is planned that it will be possible to transfer Muscovites to a new type of transport in 2022, when the first test algae arrives in Mosgortrans.
The Ministry of Energy previously proposed to transfer 10% of urban transport on the domestic market to hydrogen by 2030. In addition, there are plans to develop hydrogen refueling infrastructure in the country. By the specified date, it is planned to build about 1,000 hydrogen gas stations in the Russian Federation.
| | To date, [by May 30, 2022] we have adopted a plan for the development of refueling infrastructure for electricity and hydrogen, says Alexey Kulapin. - REA is one of the centers of competence for the implementation of this plan, budget funds are allocated to stimulate this direction... In particular, subsidies will be allocated to the regions of the Russian Federation for the creation of an electric refueling infrastructure. | |
Plans to transfer Russians to hydrogen-powered buses became known from the draft technological strategy for the development of the hydrogen industry in February 2022. Then Mosgortrans noted that before the complete transfer of the system, it is necessary to test the algae in real conditions under different temperature conditions.[6]
2020: Moscow Government will present the Strategy for the development of the city's transport complex until 2040
The Moscow government will present a strategy for the development of the city's transport complex until 2040, the Parliamentary newspaper reported in June.
In October 2019, the mayor's office of the capital ordered the development of the Concept for the development of the transport complex until 2040. Its previous variant was developed in 2011. The document was calculated until 2020. The main objective of the Strategy was to increase the capacity of highways, reduce traffic congestion. For this, in recent years, allocated lanes for public transport have been created, new metro stations have been built, and the MCC has been opened.
The draft new transport strategy contains about 20 priority areas. Including: increasing the network capacity, increasing the efficiency of passenger and freight vehicles, activating the Moscow Central Diameters (MCD), developing the metro, organizing multi-level parking, using unmanned technologies, artificial intelligence, biometrics, big data, virtual and augmented reality, the introduction of unmanned vehicles.
According to experts, the proposed solutions can be implemented in the long term. Many of them require legal regulation. Perhaps ground drones are capable of changing the situation with traffic jams on the streets of the capital. Technologies have long been tested in Moscow and Kazan, and the Government of the Russian Federation is also interested in the development of this industry. The Cabinet of Ministers approved a concept to accelerate the development of unmanned vehicles in Russia. According to the document, autodrons will reduce the number of accidents on the roads, reduce the cost of transporting passengers and goods.
2019: Plan to purchase 600 trams over three years
By the end of 2022, 600 new trams will be purchased for transportation in Moscow, Evgeny Mikhailov, head of Mosgortrans, said in an interview with RBC. According to him, at present the city has already signed a contract with the manufacturer for the supply of 300 trams, and another 300 should be purchased in 2020 - 2022.
After the procurement is completed, Moscow, according to Mikhailov, will receive the world's largest and most modern tram fleet. "Therefore, all talk about the death of the tram, to put it mildly, is exaggerated," said the head of Mosgortrans, noting that the new trams will be equipped with climate control, LED lighting and power recovery systems.
Doors in the new trams will open when pressed by those wishing to enter or exit as a passenger. At the same time, it will be possible to enter them through any of the six doors, since there are no plans to install turnstiles in new trams.
2016: Moscow is the second in the world in terms of downtime in traffic jams
Moscow took second place in the world in terms of the duration of traffic jams. This is the conclusion reached by experts from the Inrix research group, analyzing 1,068 cities in 38 countries. According to the company, over the 2016 year, metropolitan drivers spent 91 hour 24 minutes in congestion. At the same time, the study notes that over the year the duration of traffic jams in the capital has decreased.
Los Angeles topped the world ranking with a similar figure of 104 hours 6 minutes. Two other U.S. cities - Nyo York and San Francisco - were in third and fourth place, respectively. In 2016, the duration of traffic jams increased in all three American cities.
But in the overall standings of the "plug" countries, Russia, represented by 103 cities at once, bypassed the states. On average, Russian motorists lost 2016 hours in congestion in 42 years. Only Indonesia (47 hours), Colombia (47 hours) and Thailand (61 hours) have more.
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1899: Start of regular electric tram traffic
Electric trams in Moscow began their regular service on April 6, 1899. At that time, the passenger had to pay 6 kopecks for travel. The interval with which the trams ran was 14 minutes. Trams could be used from 8 am to 8 pm.
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See also
- General Article Intelligent Transport Infrastructure (ITS) Russia
- Smart Traffic Light System
- Golden Crown: Electronic Travel Card
- Transportation Management System Transport Management Systems and Projects
- Fleet management systems Auto management systems Systems and projects
- Vehicle Safety and Control SystemsSystems and Designs
- Satellite Communications and NavigationSystems and Projects
Notes
- ↑ Sergei Sobyanin opened tram traffic on Academician Sakharov Avenue
- ↑ Unmanned trams are planned to be launched in Moscow in the next two years
- ↑ Congestion of Moscow roads decreased by a third in 2023
- ↑ Telegram channel of the Moscow Department of Transport
- ↑ Sergei Sobyanin decided to use the Fast Payment System to pay for travel in Moscow transport
- ↑ The first hydrogen buses will start traveling in Moscow
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