Moscow authorities will monitor the movement of residents with the help of their own cell phones.

In 2015, the Moscow authorities will create a system for analyzing traffic flows based on the movement of Muscovites - cellular subscribers. The Center for Traffic Management will analyze data on the movements of residents of the capital and the nearest Moscow region. The system will be updated every hour. With the help of cell phones, the authorities will find out how Muscovites move around the city day and night, where traffic is particularly dense, where motorists and public transport passengers travel most often.

All data will be impersonal, the head of the Center Vadim Yuriev emphasized. According to experts, in this way the authorities will find out where in the megalopolis you need to build new roads, congresses, turns, and public transport stops. In addition, the new system will predict congestion.

“In 2015, we plan to create a system for analyzing traffic flows of the Moscow agglomeration based on gsm tracks. It will collect, process and analyze data on the movement of cellular subscribers in Moscow and the nearest suburbs, ”explained Yuryev.
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The Moscow government has big plans for using data on mobile subscriber movements. Thus, the authorities, with their help, have already considered the real population of New Moscow (which, by the way, is twice as large as officially registered), and should also receive information about all those living in “old” Moscow.

Blue Pails coordinator Pyotr Shkumatov explained that now there is no system in the city that accurately counts the total number of passengers, pedestrians and motorists moving in the city. “Using data from GSM tracks, experts will, for example, see on the map where traffic jams or serious reruns occur and you need to build a turnaround where there is not enough passenger transport or connectivity between the districts,” Shkumatov said.

Paranoids can remember that identifying a person among 1,500,000 users of mobile communication is possible only by 4 points in time and space .