Exploitation of infrastructure of low-density railway lines on the basis of integrated assessment of its performance

Abstract

Currently Russia is in need of qualitative means of solving the urgent problems of transport sector, namely optimization of technological processes of production, an unacceptable level of labor losses, delays in passenger and freight traffic, an increase of energy consumption, negative impact on the environment, inadequate performance of transport system. Rail transport is currently developing a new stage of technical and economical development by using the results of scientific progress in technology, economics and engineering. And in recent years in Russia there were significant limitations of volume and quality characteristics of transport system. Prospective research and development in the form of modern technologies, equipment and services on the basis of the automated control systems and the organization of transportation process contributed to increased traffic on the railways. In this work authors propose organizational and management technique, organizing the structure of modern relations among participants of transportation process for low-density railway lines of JSC “Russian Railways” (hereinafter - low-density line). The aim of this study is to improve exploitation of infrastructure of low-density lines based on integrated assessment of its performance. One of the productive directions in addressing the problem of low-density lines in terms of restructuring of JSC “Russian Railways” is the development and implementation of methods of integrated performance assessment which allows assessing proposed management solutions for more efficient use of infrastructure and selecting optimal strategies for performance of low-density lines. Thus, research and development in the field of assessment of low-density lines operation as an objective tool for the analysis and organization of its performance is an urgent scientific challenge. Using the proposed method allows substantiating the feasibility of using infrastructure of low-density lines and consolidating joint efforts in the region, business entities and JSC “Russian Railways” to solve the problem in practice.