Uber has agreed to limit its service in Moscow to drivers with a transportation license, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The company said it will also share traffic data with city officials, as well as the number of drivers using the app each month.
Moscow’s transportation department had previously planned to ask police and a judge to ban Uber in Moscow if the company did not agree to submit information on cars’ routes and use only authorized taxi drivers.
The US startup, which arrived in Russia in 2013, currently operates in seven cities across the country. While visiting Moscow in December 2015, its Vice President Ryan Graves shared plans to expand Uber’s coverage to 10 new cities this year.
A few months earlier, Uber signed a memorandum of understanding with Sberbank, Russia’s national savings bank, “to explore the co-development of financial technologies with global potential.”
