International Association Metro

The Metro Association was formed in February 1992 under the conditions of the destruction of the centralized metro management system of the USSR . The main subway department of the Ministry of Railways was abolished, the subways were transferred to municipal administration , and with the collapse of the USSR, they were left alone with many problems, the severity of which was aggravated by the transience of the ongoing transformations, which literally shocked the leaders of the subways . Everyone understood that for subways designed and built on the basis of a single technical, legal, organizational and socio-economic principle, which have long been in a centralized management system, these transformations could result in a violation of their normal functioning.

At the same time, all legal documents common to the metro and approved by the Ministry of Railways and the Main Directorate of Metro , numerous instructions, technical processes, provisions for the organization of centralized repair of technical equipment and equipment throughout the diversified metro economy, the cooperative mutually beneficial ties between the metro were threatened with termination, the metro lost research base (the Directorate General of subways was his department VNIIZhT that worked lawsuit yuchitelno topics metro ).

The separation of subway specialists made it difficult for them to communicate, exchange ideas and experience, and develop any common strategic areas of activity.

Without this, specialists working in the same field cannot ensure the effective functioning of the industry. Therefore, the need arose to create some kind of body that would bring together specialists not on an departmental, but on a professional basis and would take on the coordination and solution of many technical issues related to the operation of subways, equipping them with new technological devices, and developing new operating systems.

Such a body was the Metro Association, which in a short time united the subways of the largest cities of Russia : Moscow , St. Petersburg , Nizhny Novgorod , Novosibirsk , Samara , Yekaterinburg , as well as the capitals of the states of the former USSR : Tashkent , Tbilisi , Yerevan and Baku . In the most difficult financial and organizational conditions of the formation of market relations and the fragmentation of the CIS subways , the Association took on coordinating and information-analytical functions, thereby contributing to the unification of subway collectives.

The Association aims to promote and coordinate the activities of its members in the field of:

• technical policy
• scientific and technological developments
• reconstruction and modernization of hardware
• introducing the achievements of technological progress into operation by attracting a wide range of specialists to solve common problems for the subways
• protection of common property interests.

The main activities of the Association are:

• organization of the development of policy documents on improving the activities of the subways and solving social issues of workers, submitting them (documents) to the government bodies of the Russian Federation and the CIS in the prescribed manner and participating in the work on their implementation;
• organization of reliable and mutually beneficial cooperation of production capacities to ensure the repair of metro equipment and the manufacture of spare parts;
• organization of the exchange of work experience of subways;
• assistance to the subways in the development of foreign economic activity, their participation in international organizations.

In addition, the Association carries out:

• resolving issues to improve the logistics of the subways ;
• coordination of developments to improve transportation safety ;
• organization of joint publishing and scientific activities;
• provision of advisory services to members of the Association;
• exchange of experience of law enforcement agencies in the subways .

• The Metro Association is a full member of International_Association_of_Public_Transport ( International Union of Public Transport (UITP)) and in the person of its members has the right to be represented at all international metro assemblies of the world, as well as at other international events held by UITP.
• Since 1999, the Association has organized the regular release of the international public transport magazine “Public Transport International” in Russian (ISSN-1016-796X).

• Association official website

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• Arkhipova E. The second review of transport electronics (Russian) // Electronics: science, technology, business: magazine. - 2008. - No. 3 . - S. 136 . - ISSN 1992-4178 .