From 28 till 31 August a business and exhibition
programme of the International Railway Exhibition of the 1520 Space “PRO//Move-
ment.Expo” was held on the territory of the Experimental Railway Ring of
VNIIZhT in Shcherbinka (Moscow, Russia).
This year, representatives from 37 countries, 700
enterprises and 2000 industry experts took part in “PRO//Movement.Expo”, as
well as 20 contracts were signed. Representatives of 212 exhibitors from
Austria, Belarus, Germany, Italy, China, Poland, Russia, Romania, France, the
Czech Republic and Switzerland presented their developments and technologies at
the exhibition as part of the whole event. The programme covered all aspects
of railway transport. One of the main points of the programme was the unmanned
Lastochka (Swallow) train run, a direct road to Austria and buses on rails,
which can radically change the transport accessibility of remote regions.
