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Implementing ITU-T International Standards to shape Smart Sustainable Cities - The case of Moscow

Measures adopted by Moscow Suggested action(s) for Moscow and other
aspiring Smart Sustainable Cities

Over the past few years, a bicycle infrastructure It is recommended that aspiring smart sustainable
has been created in Moscow from scratch. Bicycle cities similarly invest in building bicycle paths,
racks and bicycle lanes have appeared in the city especially in city centre areas, and developing bike
and a bike-share system was put in place. 78 sharing schemes that would allow inhabitants to
Cycling in the centre of Moscow is one of the commute around the city in an affordable and
quickest ways to see the city. However, vehicular sustainable manner.
traffic is still prone to interfere with cyclists in the
It should be noted that biking and bike sharing are
city centre, where 40% of Moscow’s workplaces
likely to get a large following in a city only when
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are located. bicycles are coupled with safety measures and
The Department of Transport has ambitious plans more universal biking facilities. 81 Therefore, a
to create an eventual 700 km of bike lanes in planned and researched approach when investing
Moscow, and thousands of bikes are available to in such infrastructure and programmes is
use at hundreds of locations as part of the city’s recommended.
bike share scheme. Cities that have successfully introduced such
The trend of bike riding for pleasure in the park initiatives have benefitted from several
has grown exponentially since the introduction of environmental, social and urban mobility
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bike sharing and new bicycle paths. More benefits.
importantly, the same Troika card used to pay for
other public transport can also be used to rent
these bikes. There are now 430 bike share stations
in Moscow, offering 43 rides per day to users in
2017 – for a total of 2.4 million rides in 2017. Since
inception, 50 new stations and 500 bicycles have
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been added to the network each year.
The 210 kilometres of bike paths and lanes that
Muscovites currently enjoy correspond to a value
of 1.68 kilometres per 100 000 of the city’s
inhabitants.

78 Mead (2015)
79 Simpson (2017)
80 https://velobike.ru/en/
81 https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/7-reasons-fund-bicycle-infrastructure/268971/
82 https://www.sharetheroad.ca/what-are-the-benefits-to-government-when-they-invest-in-cycling--p128284

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