MTS has built a high-precision geopositioning infrastructure for Yandex autonomous transport on federal highways and in cities with a population of over a million

MOSCOW, October 6 - RIA Novosti. MTS has built a high-precision geopositioning infrastructure to manage Yandex autonomous vehicles on four federal highways, as well as in five largest cities, the operator reports.

The system has already been launched on the M4 highway to Voronezh, and on the M12 to Kazan. By the end of 2026, infrastructure for autonomous transport will appear on the M4 to Novorossiysk, and by 2028 - on the M12 to Tyumen.

The project, launched in 2025, also provides for the creation of a geopositioning network in all Russian cities with a population of over a million and key logistics centers by 2030. Currently, the system has been built in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Voronezh.

The solution uses GNSS RTK (Global Navigation Satellite System, Real Time Kinematics) technology. Coordinates from navigation satellites with an accuracy of 5-15 meters are corrected and refined to 2-5 centimeters using mathematical models and ground infrastructure - a network of reference stations on the MTS telecom infrastructure with receivers for receiving signals from GNSS satellites.

Algorithms for automatic comparison of centimeter coordinates with high-precision digital road maps ensure vehicle orientation in zero visibility, and the use of geodata by on-board inertial navigation systems allows the vehicle to be driven with centimeter accuracy even in the absence of communication.

As stated by MTS General Director Inessa Galaktionova, the high-precision positioning infrastructure on the main sections of four federal highways with a length of over 4 thousand kilometers will allow optimizing routes, reducing operating costs and fuel consumption of autonomous vehicles, speeding up and making transportation safer, and improving the environmental situation.