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                  period 2017-2018, while secondary data from 2016 and earlier constituted just over 3 per cent
                  of all data collected. 28, 29
                  The data collection process was coordinated with the departments, agencies and entities listed
                  in Table 2.

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                       Table 2: Key entities involved in Moscow’s Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) project

                               Entity                                   Function

                   Department of Finance          This department prepares the budget of Moscow and organizes
                                                  its execution, manages public debt, and engages in normative
                                                  legal regulation of the budgetary processes.

                   Department of Economic Policy   This department is responsible for preparing a stable tax base
                   and Development                and improving tax administration. It is also responsible for
                                                  increasing the efficiency of budget expenditures, enhancing the
                                                  investment attractiveness of the capital, and ensuring the
                                                  proper implementation of large-scale investment projects and
                                                  import substitution programmes.

                   Department of Trade and Services  This department is responsible for trade, retail markets, and
                                                  organizing weekend, regional and specialized fairs & festivals
                                                  such as “Moscow Seasons". It also ensures food security and is
                                                  in charge of the capital's agro-industrial complex, the
                                                  development of agricultural policies, public catering, the
                                                  production and turnover of alcohol and alcohol-containing
                                                  products, consumer services for the population, and funeral and
                                                  burial services.

                   Department for the Development   This department is responsible for the implementation of city
                   of New Territories             planning policies in the Troitsk and Novomoskovsk districts of
                                                  Moscow. It is also responsible for the preparation of regulations
                                                  related to territorial planning and urban zoning. The
                                                  department coordinates and administers Moscow's Address
                                                  Investment Programme.








                  28   Received  as  part  of  Smart  City  Lab’s  answers  to  ITU’s  pre-  case  study  development  Preliminary
                  Questions.
                  29   For example, Moscow’s entire traffic and transport network is managed by its Traffic Management
                  Centre, under the auspice of the city’s Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development.
                  The high-tech current or real-time data-driven system of traffic flow analysis that it employs is augmented
                  by GPS data in particularly dense and labyrinthine areas, such as ‘old Moscow’. Information is gathered
                  via the standard Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and used to identify redundant or
                  needful traffic arrangements, as well as the provisioning of interchanges on the underground system and
                  corresponding availability of bus services (Anderson, 2015). The data are also used to support and effect
                  longer-term policy changes by the city government, as well as being used to report on the relevant U4SSC
                  KPIs related to transport and mobility. See section 4.2 for more details.
                  30  Received  as  part  of  Smart  City  Lab’s  answers  to  ITU’s  pre-  case  study  development  Preliminary
                  Questions.



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