Strategic transport mobility of modern Russia

Recent geopolitical disagreements have caused tectonic changes in economic, technological and scientific ties between the North-South countries. Russia, as a country with the largest territory and substantial natural resources, found itself at the epicenter of these changes. Numerous sanctions adopted by the collective West after February 2022 created a new geopolitical reality, when Russia can rely only on its own intellectual and technological resources. In such external conditions, Russia will most likely be guided only by its national interests, with the climate agenda playing a secondary role. This research examines a conceptual model of transport mobility, when not the climate agenda, but technological development becomes the main dominant of development. The basis of such transport mobility is the existence of critical technologies and new economic mechanisms for their implementation. In this paper the possible implementation of such a new model is presented, in particular, on the basis of national-scale projects to create a country’s own technological base in the field of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing, hydrogen fuel cell locomotives, and modern shipbuilding.