February, 2000 - first full-scale installation of b-version of the expert system of strategic planning of a road economy in the Ryazanskaya oblast and the Irkutsk affiliation of Giprodornii (research institute).

March, 2000 - inauguration of Methodical instructions for development of national (federal) and regional programmes of improvement and development of the motor road network in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2000 meant for realisation of the national programme The Roads of the 21^st century.

April, 2000 (Ìåõicî) - World Congress on Urban Transportation CODATU. Presentation of the paper  Urban Transport Standard by Bougromenko V. and Myasoedova E.

April, 2000 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - International Conference SUSTAINABLE CITY 2000. Paper Urban Transport - the virtual source for sustainablility of a city.

June, 2000 - completion of the Strategy of development of the transport sector of the Arkhangelskaya oblast (all transport modes included).

August, 2000 (Arkhangelsk, Russia) - XI Convention of the Russian Geographical Society. Reports:

1. Territorial aspects of the social injustice. (A new social paradigm in the regional planning)

2. (Together with the Deputy Head of the Arkhangelskaya oblast) The Strategy of development of the Arkhangelskaya oblast in the name of the universal welfare.

August, 2000 (Riga, Latvia) 24st International conference of transport workers.   Presentation of the paper How to turn non-market taxes into market ones - case study of the road branch Bugromenko V., Myasoedova E.