On the 31st of January, leaders of the Russian government met with the International Olympic Committee Commision, which monitors the preparation for the Winter Olympics of 2014. During the visit, Jean-Claude Killy, the head of the IOC coordination commission, was shown the preparations made in Sochi’s transportation infrastructure for the Olympics. He was given presentations concerning construction of a state-of-the-art highway around Sochi (Dzhugba-Sochi), a plan for transportation infrastructure development, as well as the introduction of an automated system of monitoring and dispatching of motor transport in the town of Sochi based on the latest GLONASS technologies. It was the Russian Federation Transport Minister Igor Levitin, who personally reported to Vladimir Putin and Jean-Claude Killy on the ways that the new technologies contribute to getting ready for the Olympics, adding that all the vehicles engaged in construction, preparation and realization of the Games would have GLONASS-based equipment installed on them. As the Vesti news program put it, «Sochi is a kind of a «postcard» of the entire Russian economy, and of the whole partnership between the private sector and the state».

The ASMD project is an example of such private-public partnership. The day before, a news conference was held in Sochi, where the journalists were given a presentation of a joint project of the Sochi Administration and M2M telematics – «Automated System of Monitoring and Dispatching of the Sochi Motor Transport» (ASMD). The objectives of ASMD implementation include: ensuring centralized monitoring, dispatching and control of motor transport in the resort town of Sochi, ensuring safe passenger and cargo transportation, increasing economic efficiency of transportation and use of vehicles and raising the quality of transportation services provided to the town’s citizens and guests.

The first stage of the project has been completed: the buses of the MUP SochiAvtotrans and MUP Lazarevskoye municipal enterprises, the public utility vehicles of MUP SAKh are now equipped with M2M-Cyber GLX user terminals receiving and processing GLONASS satellite navigation system signals. Dispatcher stations of these enterprises are equipped to work with M2M-CityBus software.

This report was made with materials presented by an anchor of the Vesti news program (RTR TV channel).

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