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wonder up to 87% of the residents were satisfied with the
new look and functionality of the city.
Mobile app improves mobility
Traffic congestion was another issue that Moscow faced
in the past. It was once named the most congested city
out of the 400 cities surveyed by TomTom, a Dutch smart
mobility service provider. How did Moscow tackle the
problem through technology?
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The city government together with Russian and
international experts jointly developed an improvement
plan, and launched a smart transportation system with
the related infrastructure from 2012 to 2015 to solve the
problem.
Many features of the smart transportation system may
be familiar to us, that is, installing thousands of sensors,
video surveillance cameras, and smart traffic lights on
the streets, to monitor the road’s conditions in real time;
enabling the proactive relief of traffic. It replaced the
