The 11th Forum of Road Initiatives "Innovative Technologies and Intelligent Transport Systems in Road Construction" was held in Sochi on 27–29 May. It was organized by the State Company "Avtodor". It was participated by representatives of SPbGASU: students Danil Neprin, Tamerlan Manafov and Associate Professor at the Department of Transport Systems and Road and Bridge Construction Egor Golov.

The forum focused on issues of road construction and infrastructure, and personnel problems in the industry.

As part of the forum for students of relevant training profiles, the State Company "Avtodor" and the Russian University of Transport organized a business game including the development of projects that would interest today's schoolchildren (from grades 8 to 11) in entering specialized educational institutions of both secondary vocational and higher education.

The business game was attended by transport students from various universities across the country: Moscow Automobile and Road Institute, Russian University of Transport, Siberian Automobile and Road Institute and St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Egor Golov was invited as a mentor for one of the teams. He also acted as one of the experts evaluating the students' works.

During the work on the projects, the teams held two strategic sessions, one of which was attended by Konstantin Mogilny, Head of the Technical Policy and Innovative Technologies Department of the AVTODOR State Company. He held a master class for the guys on solving extraordinary problems that modern highway builders face, and spoke about the implementation of the Adler bypass project in particularly difficult mountainous conditions.

In the final of the business game, the teams presented and defended their projects to experts in the main program of the forum as part of the session “Preserving traditions, building the future”.

In addition, as part of the career guidance work carried out by the AVTODOR State Company, a technical tour of key construction sites of the Adler bypass was organized for students and teachers.