Published on: 2026-10-04
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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On October 3, the final of the Moscow transport hackathon took place in the capital. Participants, both in-person and online, presented solutions to four applied problems of the capital’s transport complex to the jury members. In the end, five teams presented their proposals in each of the categories.
“More than a thousand developers from 72 regions of our country participated in the Moscow transport hackathon. I am confident that the best prototype solutions from the finalists of the competition will help us make the capital’s transport system even more reliable and convenient for passengers. On behalf of the Mayor of Moscow, we will continue to support Russian developers and help develop competencies in the field of urban transport,” said the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry.
The competition’s prize fund amounted to four million rubles. Three teams won in each category. The development team that took first place received 500 thousand rubles, second place — 300 thousand, and third place — 200 thousand. A total of 240 teams from 72 regions of Russia participated in the competition.
The event was organized by the “Transport Innovations of Moscow” foundation, the IT company of the Moscow Government “MTTEX,” and the company “VSM-400” with the support of Moscow City Department of Transport.
Hackathon Winners
The first direction is backup positioning of an unmanned tram without global navigation systems. Participants were required to create a nonlinear mathematical model and software based on the ROS 2 robotics platform to calculate the speed and exact location of the tram on the route. First place in this direction was taken by the “StoVosem” team (Innopolis), second — VECTRA (Volgograd), third — “AI to the Masses” (Saint Petersburg).
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The second task was an AI forecast of tram route congestion. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, teams created mathematical models to predict passenger flow. According to the expert jury, the best team was “Leaders of Digitalization” (Moscow), second place went to “M.A.” (Saint Petersburg), and third to DS_CLAN (Moscow).
The third direction is a predictor of changes in the movement schedule. Participants developed an AI system for early forecasting of potential changes in urban transport movement. The winning team was SoloTech (Moscow), second place went to the team “Rapira Lab” (Moscow), and third place was Q (Moscow, Dolgoprudny).
The fourth task is gamification for the high-speed railway (HSR). Participants presented a prototype of an interactive training game with real work scenarios for HSR employees. The best solution was offered by the Workai team (Moscow), followed by “SoyuzKod” (Bryansk) and “Last Car” (Moscow).
After the awards ceremony, the finalists visited the permanent exhibition in the new building of the Moscow Transport Museum located in Konstantin Melnikov’s garage on Novoryazanskaya Street. The hackathon participants became acquainted with the history of the capital’s urban transport, from horse-drawn trams to driverless technologies.
In addition, as part of the Moscow Transport hackathon, which took place from September 25 to October 3, participants attended online sessions with experts from the companies “MTTECH”, “VSM-400”, the Artificial Intelligence Research Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Smart City Research Center of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and the Association of Transport Engineers. The semi-finalists of the competition presented the developed solution prototypes to the expert jury in online presentations.
Based on the results of the competition, the prototypes of the winning teams’ solutions may be selected for further development and implementation in the capital’s transport system, and their authors will have the opportunity to collaborate with Moscow transport organizations.
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Project “Transport” will be of interest to everyone who wants to learn about the main stages of development in this field, the support for electric transport, and the development of the route network.
In recent years, Moscow’s urban transport has become more comfortable and environmentally friendly, travel time within the city has been significantly reduced, and infrastructure for private electric vehicles has appeared.
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