Car Market to Shrink. Speaking at AvtoVAZ, Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko said on March 30 that Russia's car market may shrink by 60 percent in 2009 year-on-year. He added that only state purchases would keep the auto market from suffering a further decline

Speaking later at the plant, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised that the government would provide the factory with ... >More details »

Deputy Minister of Transportation Andrei Nedosekov among the key-note speakers at the First Russian Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

Andrei Nodosekov, Deputy Minister of Transportation of the Russian Federation will head a delegation of Mintrans at the upcoming ITS Russia Congress in Moscow. >More details »

Scott Belcher, President and CEO of ITS America voices his support to the newly created ITS Russia association and the First Russian Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

In his address to the Steering Committee of the First Russian ITS Congress, Scott Belcher, President and CEO of ITS America expressed official support on behalf of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America to the newly created association ITS Russia and subsequent organization of the ITS Russian Congress in Moscow. >More details »

U.S.-Russia Business Council supports the First ITS Congress in Moscow

The U.S.-Russia Business Council (USRBC), a Washington-based trade association that represents the ... >More details »

FINLAND DESCRIBES RUSSIA’S INTRODUCTION OF ROAD TOLLS AS DISCRIMINATING’

FOCUS News Agency

Helsinki. Finland has described Russia’s introduction of road tolls for heavy-freight vehicles as ‘discriminating,’ the Komsomolskaya Pravda writes.

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RUSSIA INTRODUCES TAX ON “FOREIGNERS”

The government of the Russian Federation is introducing a toll for foreign vehicles over 3.5 tons. >More details »

THE STATE DUMA ADOPTED THE LAW «ON THE NAVIGATION ACTIVITIES»

From Roscosmos press release

January 30, 2009 The State Duma adopted on the second («for» -378) and third ( «for» - 407) readings of the bill on the navigation activities. >More details »

NEW ROAD AGENCY TO FREE UP RUSSIA’S TRANSPORT ROUTES

With Moscow's clogged arterial roads setting records for their traffic Jams, a New Government Road management company is being formed with a view to attracting private investors, and reducing transport times. >More details »

ROAD TOLLS CAN BE HACKED

MIT Technology Review
by Duncan Graham-Rowe

According to a computer security firm in Oakland, California, USA, drivers using an automated toll system on roads and bridges in California's Bay Area [FasTrak (

www.bayareafastrak.org

)] could be vulnerable to fraud, despite previous reassurances about the security of the system. >More details »

RUSSIA CHALLENGING THE U.S. MONOPOLY ON SATELLITE NAVIGATION

By Andrew E. Kramer

MOSCOW: The days of the Cold War may have passed, but Russia and the United States are in the midst of another battle - this one a technological fight over the U.S. monopoly on satellite navigation. >More details »