Transport reform in St. Petersburg in the context of a smart city development strategy

Abstract

The paper evaluates the results of the transport reform in St. Petersburg. It has been established that the current trends in the development of the urban economy in the modern world are being implemented in line with a smart city development strategy, and St. Petersburg is no exception in this regard. It was revealed that the main emphasis in planning the transport reform in St. Petersburg was placed on the systemic nature of its implementation. With this in mind, the authors developed and tested a comprehensive model for evaluating the results of the reform, appealing to the methodology of strategic analysis, taking into account information from open sources. The proposed model was tested on the basis of expert assessments and visualized using heat map tools. As a result, the most significant difficulties faced by the city administration during the implementation of the transport reform were identified, and the need for continuous monitoring (including using sociological survey data) of the model parameters to assess the dynamics of public transport reform was argued. The materials of the paper were tested during a series of round tables held by the St. Petersburg State University in 2022, which were devoted to the strategy of smart city development.