VICTOR BABURIN ABOUT NEAREST PROSPECTS OF SKYWAY

Within the XI International exhibition "Transport of Russia", which was held from 6th to 8th of December 2017 in Moscow, the SkyWay conference was held. Among the speakers of the conference - Deputy Director General for the development of the SkyWay project organization Victor Baburin, who in his speech shared with the participants of the event the latest news and plans for the strategic development of SkyWay technology.

In particular, Victor Baburin noted that despite the desire of many project partners to see the first stringed roads in Russia, the business approach in the implementation of SkyWay requires considering the most promising markets with the least amount of difficulties.

We need to get used to the fact that the iron curtain is gone. We are an international company, we do not work where we were born. As a commercial organization, we were created in order to make a profit, and not to engage in patriotism. We must go where the market takes us, and officials say: "Why did not you come yesterday? You can start building today, because tomorrow it will be too late".

Also, Viktor Baburin said that in countries such as India, which is now experiencing rapid economic and demographic growth, the SkyWay project needs to begin to be implemented today, which is confirmed by local industry leaders. According to him, the Indian side actively collects all innovative ideas, among which the one that demonstrates technical and commercial viability will win.

Now Europe is actively moving to the industry 4.0. As far as I know, in Russia such technologies are used only in military enterprises. Basically, in this respect, Russia lags behind

To enhance the competitiveness of the project in the design bureaus and the production of CJSC String Technologies, industry elements 4.0 are being introduced: for half a year the team of the company's specialists is working on the introduction of a system for working with virtual models of rolling stock and track structure from Dassault Systemes. Such a system will allow the creation of engineering projects in a coordinated and rapid manner and prepare technical documentation necessary for launching them into production. All changes made by engineers in the layout will affect the final model and calculations of technical characteristics and cost of the final product.

The need to use the principles of the industry 4.0 is also due to the fact that information systems allow the transfer of tasks for projects on a contract basis to engineers from other countries. This is necessary because, at the first stages of the company's entry into the world market, it will not have the physical ability to independently produce all works around the globe.

We must understand that we live in a real physical world, where only 24 hours, where people want not only to work, but also to live a normal full life with their families, so at first we will not be able to take on a large number of projects. We still have only 400 people. For such a complicated complex, we need not 400, but 4000 people, and even better 40,000. And we, of course, will come to this, but in the coming year we will be able to take 1-2 projects

In particular, Viktor Baburin commented on the development of target projects in India and Indonesia, which we already reported earlier:

We must approach the choice of a site for construction strategically, accurately. We must choose the place that will allow us to say "A", and to say "B". We need to necessarily approach this with a related contract or related financing. Relatively speaking, we are doing 2 kilometers, but we already have a contract that when passing the local certification and when the technology reaches the declared results, we automatically get a contract for a more interesting piece - for example, 30 kilometers, financed by the state or a private person

In conclusion of his speech, Viktor Baburin stressed that the most relevant areas for the development of the project are India, Indonesia and the UAE.

At the moment, Viktor Baburin is part of a working group in the UAE, where, together with the general designer of SkyWay, Anatoly Yunitskiy is negotiating with potential customers for the project of introducing SW transport systems into port infrastructure facilities.