Research: National Companies Occupy Main Share of Russian Market of Intelligent Transport Systems
Russian regions are increasing investments in digitalization of transport infrastructure and implementation of intelligent transport systems. Such findings were obtained by the analysts of Rusatom Smart Utilities (is part of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM) following the in-house research, the results of which are published by the Internet portal CNews. Since 2019, the regions and state companies have spent on such solutions almost 100 bn rubles. The most popular systems today are photo and video recording systems, road traffic management systems and complex solutions. At the same time, national software and hardware complexes are used in the majority of cases, the share of which approximates 100%. According to the forecasts of the company’s experts, owing to the governmental support, the implementation of digital solutions on transport will continue and the amount of market by 2024 will grow to 40–50 bn rubles. As a whole, intelligent transport systems for this period (till 2024) are to appear in 27 cities of Russia.
Today Rusatom Smart Utilities implements the projects of digitalization of transport infrastructure in more than 20 cities of Russia. In order to obtain a comprehensive picture and understand the situation in the country and regions, the company’s analysts studied the market of intelligent transport systems (ITS), its key players, and the largest projects. During the research, more than 2.5 thous. contracts placed on the portal of governmental procurement for 3.5 years were analyzed. The total amount of the contracts concluded from January 2018 to November 2022 equaled 96 bn rubles.
Regarding key projects, Vologda agglomeration should be mentioned. “The customers strive to implement complex projects for several years to come, which ensures forecastability of ITS implementation. Implementation of ITS in Vologda agglomeration together with Rusatom Smart Utilities can serve as an example. Two-year complex project allowed to reach the first level of ITS maturity almost wholly. The complex approach to the implementation of ITS projects is a wide-spread practice, since it allows to give guarantee to the customer that the implemented sub-systems will operate in a coordinated fashion and will be able to be united within the integration platform,” said Yury Ermolaev, head of the transport sphere development unit, Rusatom Smart Utilities.
Key thesis statements and trends identified during the research
The means of photo and video recording of road traffic offenses are the most popular both as to the number of contracts and as to the total value – 960 such contracts have been concluded for the past two years for the amount of 47.2 bn rubles. The road traffic control systems (RTCS) rank second: 114 contracts for 9.5 bn rubles. Complex ITS rank third: 130 contracts for 5.4 bn rubles.
Leading regions in terms of ITS implementation. More than 38 % of the whole amount of ITS contracts pertain to Moscow (30 bn rubles.). Besides, substantial shares are occupied by such regions as the Republic of Bashkortostan (6.2 bn rubles) and Saint Petersburg (5.2 bn rubles). In quantity terms, the Krasnodar Territory and Kemerovo Region are distinguished besides the mentioned ones.
The research findings prove that in 2022 demand for ITS remained high, and its fall in 2023 is not expected. “Traffic lights control, traffic flows monitoring, public transport management, meteo monitoring, road accidents and emergencies detection, and integration platform will be on high demand. Agglomerations are focused on selection of these sub-systems, since they are obligatory for achievement of the first level of ITS maturity. Our practice shows that, besides compliance with the recommendations of the Federal Road Agency, implementation of these sub-systems allows agglomerations to unite isolated existing and newly integrated solutions within the framework of the ITS integration platform, create preconditions for the controlling action through modern systems of traffic light control, as well as implement data sources (vehicle detectors) for ITS and “digitalize” traffic,” said Yury Ermolaev.
Today Rusatom Smart Utilities supplies in-house designed solutions: integration platform, traffic flows monitoring sub-system, meteo monitoring sub-system, and other separate software products. Besides, road accidents and emergencies detection systems were designed for 2022; software and hardware solutions of traffic flow monitoring are being developed. Import substituting solutions on RTCS and on traffic flow control have been developed separately: they allow to reach complete technological sovereignty in the sphere of digitalization of transport infrastructure.