Big City Transport 2026: Chelyabinsk exhibition-forum

About the event

The interregional specialised exhibition-forum “Transport of the Big City: Passenger Transport, Roads, Logistics” was officially announced for 21–22 October 2026 in Chelyabinsk. The venue is ParkCity, 6 Lesoparkovaya Street, Chelyabinsk; some business sessions are listed in a conference room on level 2. Published opening hours are 09:00–18:00 on both days. The exhibition and forum connect urban and regional transport with road infrastructure, passenger and freight services, logistics, equipment and traffic safety.

The 21 October programme focuses on roads and infrastructure operations. It lists a plenary session and a block on preliminary road-season results in Chelyabinsk Oblast, development of the federal highway network and treasury oversight of road contracts. Separate talks address procurement for major road repairs, repairs and maintenance, including municipal procurement requirements, as well as the nationwide Road Class project. This distinguishes strategic network development, financing and contract procedures from workforce and educational questions in the road sector. The procurement session specifically cites Order No. 402 on classifying capital repair, repair and maintenance work on roads, and the application of Federal Law 44-FZ, including municipal requirements. This makes clear that the road strand covers not only construction technology, but also the preparation, oversight and regulation of contracts.

Technology topics for the same day include systems to protect against unmanned aircraft, ground stabilisation and reinforcement, geotextiles for road construction and reconstruction, and AI for fleet management. The programme therefore connects the safety of road infrastructure with materials and engineering approaches, and fleet work with the control and efficiency of vehicle operations. A separate listed meeting is titled “Bloggers versus Engineers,” a distinct discussion format related to transport and engineering. These are published programme items; they should not be read as confirmed outcomes or completed road-season results.

The 22 October programme shifts to passenger transport and urban mobility. It lists transport economics and current fare structures, standards for transport service quality in Chelyabinsk Oblast, development of the city’s transport infrastructure, and road safety in bus passenger services. These topics approach the service from different angles: fares and economics, service standards, the city network and passenger safety. The schedule separately names transport digitalisation and a digital platform for managing information services and equipment monitoring. The service-quality session names both the regional transport-service standard and the regional integrated transport-service plan. Alongside bus-road safety, these topics concern how the passenger-transport system and its infrastructure operate.

The second day also lists a presentation of new products from the SIMAZ bus plant and a session on reducing commercial-vehicle downtime through equipment and service. The programme thus covers both passenger transport and city systems, as well as commercial fleet operations. Visitors working in municipal transport, road infrastructure, procurement, maintenance or logistics can choose sessions linked to their responsibilities, keeping city service standards distinct from road construction and freight-transport management.

The official “2026 Participants” section names four companies: Pokolenie Avto, Telemedtest, Luidor and Vtor-Kom. This confirms their publication as participants for the current edition, but does not by itself assign each company a speaker, organiser or sponsor role. The Government of Chelyabinsk Oblast and the regional Ministry of Roads and Transport appear in a separate official-support section. The page’s organiser section contains an image without an accessible text identity; the organiser should not be inferred from that logo or from the website footer.

The schedule page shows separate tabs for 21 and 22 October with time slots and talk titles. Visitors can use them to select sessions by topic and check timing; some business programme items are assigned to a conference room on level 2, while a specific exhibition hall is not separately named. This description reports the officially published plan for 21–22 October 2026. It does not claim that sessions took place or state their outcomes or actual attendance.