An important opportunity to overcome the crisis consequences of COVID-19 is also to restart the economy through solving the accumulated infrastructure problems, including transport. Programs for the development of airports, the railway network, and maritime transport throughout Russia can have a big impact. There is the possibility of supporting technological restructuring in those sectors that are crucial for the future of the Russian economy: transport, aircraft, automotive, in-vestment engineering. To restore activity in the real sector of the economy, including the transport industry, it is necessary to stimulate demand for competitive products and services manufactured by it. Two areas are important here. The first is the provision of basic demand through the public procurement system of federal, regional and municipal services. The second is subsidizing loans for the purchase by the population of durable goods of domestic production (including cars) and mortgages. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.