Business Program
The business program of the TransportFest International Transport Festival will take place on 21 and 22 May 2026. The event brings together specialists to discuss key issues and future prospects in the transportation industry, showcase solutions, and share experience.
Participants represent:
- Federal and regional authorities
- Transportation companies and associations
- Higher education institutions, secondary specialized colleges, and research institutes
- Manufacturers of on-board equipment, components, and rolling stock
- Manufacturers of gas-filling infrastructure and charging infrastructure for electric vehicles
Discussion topics:
- Changing the need for specialists and forming a new demand for the labor market. Changing the structure of staff demand in the conditions of digitalization and transition to "smart" transport.
- Professional and educational standards. What and how to teach young specialists for public transport field.
- Interaction between employers and universities, effective methods and strategies for eliminating the gap between theory and practice (collaborative internship and practice programs; participation of companies in the development of educational standards; establishment of basic departments and corporate training centers, etc.).
- Early career guidance: experience in realization of "School – Secondary specialized educational institution – University – Employer" model.
- Improving the image of transport professions. New approaches and effective mechanisms. Experience of regions and major industry players.
- Interaction between employers and universities: monitoring of road transport industry labor market. Key competencies for launching training programs in regions.
- Actualization of educational programs to fit industry’s demands (digital skills, new bus fleet exploitation, UAV, intellectual transporting systems).
- Public perception of transport professions: sociological research data.
Discussion topics:
- National projects "Infrastructure for life", "Effective transportation system" and others.
- Public transport complex development in the Russian Federation’s subjects: state policy’s priorities.
- Mechanisms of public transport projects’ funding. Creating incentives to attract investments in the industry.
- Harmonization of supply and demand: synchronization of purchasing and production.
- Passenger-centricity – the main vector of mobility development: multimodality, "on demand".
Discussion topics:
- Digital passenger services: Biometric identification (facial recognition in the metro); new payment methods (geolocation, virtual tickets); integration of services into a unified ecosystem (MaaS — Mobility as a Service).
- Social and economic effect of advanced technologies implementation in transport.
- Existing trends in digitalization of transport complex management in the regions, challenges and opportunities.
- Issues of regulatory framework for digitalization.
- Ensuring security at critical information infrastructure facilities.
- Improving road safety: the role of intelligent driver assistance systems in preventing road accidents.
- Infrastructure digitalization: intelligent transport systems (ITS) in urban agglomerations and other solutions.
Discussion topics:
- Development level of AI technologies and algorithms for safe transportation in urban area (reliability and fail-operational capability of the system in dense urban environment).
- Requirements for ‘smart’ road infrastructure (V2X technology, digital maps, bus lanes). The issues of integration with existing transport systems and their infrastructure).
- Legal regulation aspects of unmanned technologies implementation.
- Certification and safety standards of autonomous vehicles.
- Ethical aspect of autonomous driving algorithms: response mechanisms to emergency situations involving pedestrians, obstacles and deteriorating weather conditions.
Discussion topics:
- Megalopolises’ experience in increasing of high environmental class vehicles usage.
- Infrastructure development of public transport running on gas engine fuel.
- Development prospects: hydrogen transport, solar-powered cars, etc.
- Electrification and hydrogen technologies: a comparative assessment of economic efficiency and environmental impact of urban and trunk road transport.
- Lightweight composite materials in construction of public transport fleet – balance between weight reduction, production costs and safety requirements.
- Additive technologies in production of spare parts: the impact of 3D printing on repair time and warehouse logistics.
Discussion topics:
- Improving the quality of transport services and creating conditions for sustainable development of transport industry in Russia.
- High-performance, innovations and safety culture development among transport companies personnel, integration of modern technologies and best practices.
- Increasing Russian transport competitiveness and ensuring its compliance with modern requirements and demands of society.
*The Program may be subject to change
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