Moscow will launch a system for checking the digital profiles of taxi drivers

The Moscow authorities announced the digital system in the spring of 2019. 

The system will serve as software

“gateway” between the aggregator and the taxi driver and notwill allow orders to be transferred to drivers without a license, with a criminal record, those who get little rest, violate traffic rules, and so on, the publication points out. They will not be able to work directly, noted Stanislav Schwagerus, head of the competence center of the International Eurasian Taxi Forum.

To launch a digital profile, a decree from the Moscow government is needed, which will oblige aggregators to work according to the new rules, Schwagerus said.

The new system should help reduce accidents involving taxis, the newspaper said. According to the traffic police, in the first half of 2020, the number of such accidents equaled the number of accidents with taxis for the entire 2018.

For its part, the traffic police plans in 2021launch a digital driver profile on the State Services portal. With its help, companies will be able to track fines and the status of taxi drivers' driving licenses online, said Nikolai Sheyukhin, Deputy Head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate.

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