Moscow city is a dynamically developing city with dense buildings in the centre and a constantly increasing number of vehicles and passenger traffic. By 2014 the main transport problems of the city were the following:
1) High pendulum movements of personal transport during peak hours (region-centre, centre-region)
2) Low efficiency of Surface Urban Passenger Transport (SUPT): high traffic congestion, low priority and delayed movement of the SUPT
3) Chaotic parking in the city centre, sharply reducing the traffic capacity of the streets
4) Low level of safety for both pedestrians and drivers
Solving these and other tasks in the city, earlier we developed several projects to change the traffic organization, but the lack of an integrated approach to design and the introduction of local operational changes did not give the desired result.
In this regard, it was decided to develop a set of measures throughout the city, with a unified approach to design, allowing to consider Moscow street and road network as a single object, thereby to introduce integrally and simultaneously a number of measures to change the traffic organization such as:
1) organisation of separated lanes for public transport;
2) the introduction of one-way traffic;
3) ordering of the parking space;
4) proposals for locally-reconstructive measures (widening of the driveway part, sidewalks, organization of parking bays, security islands;
5) development of cycling infrastructure (cycle lanes and cycle tracks);
6) the organization of parking lots for taxi and cargo transport.
Thus, in 2014, began the work on the creation of the ITMS in Moscow.
In Moscow there are more than 4,000 streets, and the change of traffic organisation in some of them is reflected in the traffic situation of the whole city. And to change the traffic organisation in the whole city during 1 year is simply not possible.