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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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