Moscow's Transport Dispatch Center Expands to Europe's Largest

The second building of the Moscow Unified Dispatch Center was completed in July 2026, expanding the city's transportation management system and making it the largest of its kind in Europe. The center will oversee all urban transport, including buses, trams, metro, river vessels, taxis, and shared mobility services.

Consensus

• The second building of the Unified Dispatch Center 'Moscow Transport' was completed in July 2026.
• The first building of the Unified Dispatch Center was opened in 2019.
• The first building manages metro, MCK, MCD, and trams.
• The second building will manage surface and river transport.
• The center will improve coordination between transport services and reduce response time to incidents.
• The center will transmit data in real time to government services, partners like Yandex and 2GIS, and public information channels.
• The speed of informing passengers will increase by two times.
• The accuracy of bus and electric bus schedules will improve by about 20%.
• The center will manage over 900 surface routes, more than 6,500 buses and electric buses, 604 trams (including four autonomous), nearly 11,500 metro cars, MCK, MCD, over 190 river vessels, over 200,000 taxis, over 90,000 scooters and bicycles, and 125,000 couriers.
• The center will become the largest in Europe for urban transport management.
• The efficiency of specialists has increased by one-third.
• The center will serve as an operational headquarters during mass events.

Points of divergence

• The new building will house more than 90 dispatchers for surface passenger transport, and an educational classroom will be established for training new staff. — vm
• The center will have the ability to modify bus and electric bus routes and schedules. — vm
• The Moscow metro network includes four diameters (MCD), 138 stations, and 89 Moscow urban railway stations, and the second tram diameter (T2) was launched in April. — ntv
• Biometric payment systems were introduced on MCD-2 stations, with 118 entry/exit turnstiles across 25 stations, using neural networks and servers located in Russia. — m24

Coverage (6 sources)

• Sobyanin told about the work of the Unified Dispatch Center «Moscow Transport» — Вечерняя Москва
• Sergey Sobyanin. Main things for the day — Вечерняя Москва
• Unified dispatch center "Moscow Transport" increased specialists' work efficiency by a third — Мэр Москвы Сергей Собянин
• Sobyanin: new building of EDC will become key node for transport control — НТВ Москва
• Sobyanin: Dispatch center of Moscow transport will become the largest in Europe — Вечерняя Москва
• Sobyanin: Moscow traffic dispatch center will become the largest in Europe — Москва 24

Key entities

• Sergei Sobyanin
• Moscow
• Moscow Transport
• EDC
• Europe
• Unified Dispatch Center «Moscow Transport»
• Mah
• KRT
• Evening Moscow
• Moscow Central Circle
• Moscow Central
• Unified Dispatch Center

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