By the beginning of next year, Kazan will receive an additional 55 snow cleaning vehicles

560 special vehicles and over a thousand employees of landscaping municipal enterprises will ensure the cleanliness of Kazan streets in winter. The work of transport will be monitored by an updated monitoring system with expanded road cleaning routes. Today, Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin, as well as media representatives, inspected the system and readiness of equipment for winter during a press tour. They visited the MUE Gorvodzelenkhoz, where they inspected the fleet of snow cleaning vehicles and talked with employees of the enterprise.

“On October 15, the city will switch to winter maintenance of roads. 93% of the equipment is already ready to work in such conditions. Landscaping companies and contractors have to complete the work, but, in general, everything is ready. We continue to purchase new equipment, thanks to the support of Tatarstan President. By the beginning of next year, we will additionally receive 55 snow cleaning vehicles”, - the Mayor told journalists.

The head of the city noted that on the eve of the Year of Digitalization, which was announced by the President of the republic, landscaping enterprises switched to an updated navigation system. “Innovations have affected the landscaping companies. We are removing 22 million square meters of roads. This is comparable to 10 principalities of Monaco. 1,950 km of roads is from Kazan to Warsaw. Our task is always to clean the territory efficiently and control this process”, - he stressed.

The media representatives got acquainted with the possibilities of the updated navigation system. To improve the signal quality and prompt data acquisition, specialists switched to a single operator and installed additional sensors on special equipment. The system has introduced road cleaning routes with full coverage of streets – there are about 46 of them. “At the beginning of this year, there was a task of implementing a system for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of cleaning vehicles. For this task, we have introduced a route control functionality, thanks to which it became possible to compare the plan and its implementation. We can link each multipurpose road maintenance vehicle to a specific route and evaluate the performance. We conducted the test on a summer watering system”, - said Aleksander Kostousov, deputy head of the ITC Department of the Kazan Executive Committee.

A unique feature of the updated navigation system is that it allows tracking streets where the cleaning was carried out poorly, and which locations need to be cleaned more carefully. Based on the information received, contractors will be able to promptly adjust work schedules. In addition, with the help of the system, the speed of the machine and the execution time of tasks can be controlled.

“This is a very necessary system, because we have about 560 vehicles. We cannot rely on the reports of drivers. This is budget money and the expense should be appropriate. People are waiting for clean streets and roads”, - the Mayor said.

I.Metshin noted that the equipment is ready for operation, but much depends on the weather. “We are ready for the winter season. But in winter there are blizzards and drifts. Nevertheless, enterprises must cope with everything within a day. Equipment, public transport and emergency services must operate smoothly. Residents also should make decisions together to control the time when the equipment will come into the yard for cleaning”, - the head of the city concluded.