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Strale, Mathieu. "High-Speed Rail for Freight: Potential Developments and Impacts on Urban Dynamics." Open Transportation Journal 10, no. 1 (April 30, 2016): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874447801610010057.
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At present, high-speed rail is used only as a mode of passenger transport. Yet, the acceleration of logistics and freight transport flows could be compatible with high-speed rail capabilities. This article examines the experiences, literature and prospects of high-speed rail for freight. It uses three hypotheses to evaluate the development of freight high-speed rail services in Europe. The article concludes by describing the potential impacts on urban dynamics. It appears that the potential of freight high-speed rail services is limited in Europe, because of logistical constraints and network capabilities. Nevertheless, policies followed in Europe may change the situation.
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ZAINUDDIN, NIZAMUDDIN, TAN YONG SOON, CHIANG SHUN LONG, and NORITA DERAMAN. "RAIL FREIGHT SERVICES UTILIZATION IN MALAYSIA." Quantum Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 2, no. 6 (December 9, 2021): 104–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.55197/qjssh.v2i6.113.
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Due to the development of international and domestic trade, the growing important of related freight transport services is increasingly. This paper is intended to discuss the factors affecting the utilization of rail freight services in Malaysia. Three factors were identified which include price, time, location and physical. The data are obtained through a questionnaire which has been structured accordingly and distributed to the respondents. The sample collected were 103 through online questionnaire survey. In this study, the data are analysed using descriptive, normality, reliability, and multiple linear regression. All independent variables such as price, time, location and physical were found to show have significant relationship with the utilization of rail freight services in Malaysia. Although sample collected were from different background, but majority were collected in Western Malaysia, may not represent the entire haulage operator and freight customer in Malaysia. The duration of the study further increases the limitation whereby only 3 to 4 months to complete the entire research. Resources in related fields are limited. The use of rail freight services requires more investment, resources, and costs. Finally, the study's findings should help shifting the preference among haulage companies in the use of rail transportation in an effective, efficiency and environmentally friendly way, to increase the utilization rate of rail freight services in Malaysia. This study increases haulage operator and freight customer knowledge and awareness regarding the adoption of rail freight services. This study also encourages the haulage operator and consumer to use sustainable rail transport services. The paper marks an early contribution to the study on factors that affect the utilization of rail freight services in Malaysia.
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Nugroho Utomo. "RAILWAY STRUCTURES PERFORMANCE DUE TO FREIGHT INTERMODAL SERVICE AT BOJONEGORO – KALITIDU ROUTE." CI-TECH 2, no. 01 (April 30, 2021): 30–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33005/ci-tech.v2i01.30.
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Goods movement using container are quite efficiently assessed because it can carry a great amount of goods fit to container capacity. Freight transportations is a primary component of all supply-chain and logistics systems, but in contrary using a truck as its transportation means causing many problems such as air and noise pollutions, traffic congestions, road accidents and road damage. Depart from this facts, so government is looking for another means of freight transporter which more efficient with a bigger load capacity advantages. This options goes to train as a solutions of intermodal freight transportations lack. In order to supporting intermodal freight transportations, right now double track of railway is available for Jakarta – Surabaya route (Northern line route). By now, noted that freight transportation with double track railway frequency is potentially increase to 15 trip per days with capacity 500 TEU (Twenty feet Equivalent Units) per days and fuel consumptions (with truck) can be thrifted into 115 kl per days also reducing carbon monoxide emission amounts 350 tons per days. According with an official statements from Directorate General of Railways, Ministry of Transportations, explained that Jakarta – Bojonegoro route on double track railway is fully operated so this paper is conducted to determining feasibility of railway structure performance due to freight intermodal transportations at Bojonegoro – Kalitidu route. Railway structure performance feasibility is observed from loading distributions, rail strength, rail sleeper strength, and railway subgrade endurance to planned freight trains. As a result of this research obtained that tension force that occurred on rail is 830,10 kg/cm2 < permitted tension on rail (first class rail) 1325 kg/cm2. So, tension force that occurred on rail is safe. Moment force that occurred on rail bottom is 14521,25 kg.cm < permitted moment force (150.000 kg.cm) Moment force that occurred in the middle of rail sleeper is 58993,978 kg.cm < permitted moment force (93000 kg.cm). Tension force that occurred on above railway subgrade (σ2) is 4,17 kg/cm2 < qu (29,671 kg/cm2). It means that railway subgrade is capable to supporting load of freight transportation operations along Bojonegoro – Kalitidu route.
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Krykavskyy, Yevhen, and Kateryna Stasiuk. "Railway freight transportation liberalization as a solution for improving client services quality." SHS Web of Conferences 67 (2019): 03007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196703007.
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Scientific approaches for defining liberalization as a priority trend in rail transport development has been generalized. The main liberalization purpose and goals have been revealed and systematized. The international experience in rail freight traffic liberalization has been analyzed and conclusions about its efficiency have been made based on statistical data. The basic prerequisites for performing the reformation of rail freight transport in Ukraine by means of liberalization have been revealed. The existing form of transportation process organization at JSC "Ukraine Railways" has been described. A thorough analysis of statistical data characterizing the operational results of the main railway enterprise in Ukraine has confirmed existing problems in the industry that can be resolved through the liberalization process. A survey has been conducted for the main railway customers and a conclusion based on the obtained results has been made considering liberalization necessity for improving customer service quality. A plan of further actions for freight transport liberalization has been proposed.
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Dablanc, Laetitia. "Regional policy issues for rail freight services." Transport Policy 16, no. 4 (August 2009): 163–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2009.05.003.
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Palšaitis, Ramūnas, and Andrejus Ponomariovas. "Assessment of Rail Freight Transport Service Quality." Transport and Telecommunication Journal 13, no. 3 (January 1, 2012): 188–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10244-012-0015-7.
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Assessment of Rail Freight Transport Service Quality Investigations show a growth of requirements for goods transportation quality by rail. There is a need to analyse in details goods transportation system by rail to meet requirements of market and give extra boost to development transportation service quality. The purpose of the current article is to give a partial overview about the experts, freight forwarders and customers' survey results. The analysis of customers' answers showed that they are not fully satisfied with quality of the service. It was identified that freight forwarders and other transportation service providers must carry out regular self-assessment of performance against defined criteria of service. Clear and united criteria of cargo transportation quality by rail will make easier to choose transport mode, transport means and route. The survey data and literature analysis showed that there is a vast range of criteria to be proposed for rail service quality evaluation, but no one of the models is prevailing. The analysis showed that most often the mentioned criteria are linked with the information, rolling stock, reliability and punctuality.
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Olencevich, Viktoriya, and Natal'ya Vlasova. "ASSESSMENT OF SATISFACTION WITH THE QUALITY OF SERVICES FREIGHT RAIL TRANSPORT." Modern Technologies and Scientific and Technological Progress 1, no. 1 (May 17, 2021): 187–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.36629/2686-9896-2021-1-1-187-188.
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O’Rourke, Laurence. "Impact of Differential Pricing on Barge Freight Transportation." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1820, no. 1 (January 2003): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1820-02.
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Through the Staggers Rail Act (1980) and the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act (1976), Congress deregulated railroad pricing to improve the financial health of the industry. Deregulation legalized differential pricing—the policy of charging customers different prices according to their willingness to pay. While the railroads have returned to profitability, shippers have been angered by railroad pricing strategies that are seen as abusive. Railroads have refused to quote rates to competing transportation facilities or have set prices to divert traffic onto the rail network. An economic measurement of the impact of differential pricing of rail services on barge transportation in the Ohio River Basin is provided by constructing a model to predict freight traffic volumes at barge terminals in the Ohio River Basin.
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Szaciłło, Lucyna, Miroslaw Krześniak, Dobromir Jasiński, and David Valis. "The use of the risk matrix method for assessing the risk of implementing rail freight services." Archives of Transport 64, no. 4 (December 31, 2022): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0016.1185.
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The article presents a proposal for the use of a risk matrix for assessing the safety of the implementation of rail freight transport. The starting point for considerations related to risk assessment is the conditions arising from the business need and the obligation of entities operating in the railway market to ensure the safety of the implementation of freight tasks. The authors presented selected literature within the framework of the issues discussed. The layers of risk assessment, which include the analytical layer, the decision layer and the elimination layer, indicate the possibility of considering the problem of risk assessment from different perspectives. The identification of direct causes and consequences of undesirable events during the implementation of rail freight transport was also made. The article describes one of the methods of risk management which is the risk matrix. The authors stressed that the construction of a risk matrix should be preceded by an analysis of the factors that affect the safety of rail transportation. This is possible by determining their probability of occurrence and setting values for the consequences of adverse events. The article divides the assignment of levels of adverse events to a five-level risk matrix (slight, low, medium, high, very high). Also presented is a case study considering the risk assessment of rail freight transport in Poland using the risk matrix method for railway accidents in the area of railway lines. Thanks to the development of the risk matrix, a risk management strategy can be used. The last part of the article is a summary, which highlights the possibility of applying the presented approach to risk assessment among entities operating in the rail transport market.
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Zhao, Yi, Qingwan Xue, Zhichao Cao, and Xi Zhang. "A Two-Stage Chance Constrained Approach with Application to Stochastic Intermodal Service Network Design Problems." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2018 (December 24, 2018): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6051029.
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Compared with traditional freight transportation, intermodal freight transportation is more competitive which can combine the advantages of different transportation modes. As a consequence, operational research on intermodal freight transportation has received more attention and developed rapidly, but it is still a young research field. In this paper, a stochastic intermodal service network design problem is introduced in a sea-rail transportation system, which considers stochastic travel time, stochastic transfer time, and stochastic container demand. Given candidate train and ship services, we develop a two-stage chance constrained programming model for this problem with the objective of minimising the expected total cost. The first stage allows for the selection of operated services, while the second stage focuses on the determination of intermodal container routes where capacity and on-time delivery chance constraints are presented. A hybrid heuristic algorithm, incorporating sample average approximation and ant colony optimisation, is employed to solve this model. The proposed model is applied to a realistic intermodal sea-rail network, which demonstrates the performance of the model and algorithm as well as the influence of stochasticity on transportation plans. Hence, the proposed methodology can improve effectively the performance of intermodal service network design scheme under stochastic conditions and provide managerial insights for decision-makers.
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Marinov, Marin V., and José M. Viegas. "Tactical management of rail freight transportation services: evaluation of yard performance." Transportation Planning and Technology 34, no. 4 (June 2011): 363–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2011.577155.
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Zhu, Endong, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, and Michel Gendreau. "Scheduled Service Network Design for Freight Rail Transportation." Operations Research 62, no. 2 (April 2014): 383–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/opre.2013.1254.
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Karapetyants, I. V. "DEVELOPMENT OF RAIL FREIGHT CARRIAGE: GLOBAL TRENDS." World of Transport and Transportation 16, no. 4 (August 28, 2018): 130–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2018-16-4-10.
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ABSTRACT European experts believe that development of high-speed rail requires upgrading of existing technologies and transport infrastructure, changing organization of traffic, and control and management system. In addition, new standards of safety, environmental friendliness, sustainability, better means of signaling and control are needed. It is believed that the US rail cargo traffic service has made progress through specially allocated tracks and reduced downtime. In Europe, introduction of such projects is still impossible, which leads to long delays in rail cargo delivery. Downtime is due to the fact that priority is given to passenger trains, as well as to violations in operation of signaling systems, inefficiency of loading and unloading of goods. At the same time, organization of services in the sphere of express delivery of goods in Europe is considered as the most important task that will result in reduction of technical and bureaucratic barriers at the national borders, and will help to attract new markets, clients, customers to the railway sector. Keywords: high-speed cargo traffic, railway transportation, communication control systems, traffic delay, regularity of transportation, speed of delivery of goods, high-speed traffic mode.
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Zietlow, Benjamin R. E., Ernest B. Perry, Teresa M. Adams, Thirunavukkarasu Sivappha, and Soren Walljasper. "Modal Diversion Estimates." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2610, no. 1 (January 2017): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2610-07.
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This research outlined and demonstrated an approach and methodology for assessing domestic truck traffic suitable for diversion to intermodal truck to rail shipping. The research was spurred by the following factors: transportation-related findings from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation's Wisconsin Economic Future Study: Statewide and Regional Analysis; a general interest in intermodal diversion from federal, state, and local transportation agencies (to alleviate roadway congestion, reduce road deterioration, and reduce transportation emissions and pollutants); and seemingly constant commentary from the state's private-sector freight stakeholders seeking increased inter-modal services. Estimates of diverted loads from trucking to truck-to-rail intermodal vary, depending on the associated cost savings, the commodity being shipped, and the distance between origin and destination. Model results suggest that nonmonetary incentives would be necessary for large volumes of freight to divert.
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Mesa-Arango, Rodrigo, and Indraneel Kumar. "Hierarchical Value Chains Encompassing Freight Transportation and Logistics Sectors in the United States." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2609, no. 1 (January 2017): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2609-01.
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This research reveals value chain (VC) clusters in which freight transportation modes (i.e., truck, rail, air, water, and pipelines), freight supporting activities (i.e., couriers and messengers and warehousing and storage), and other industry sectors have strong economic inter-dependencies. The most recent input–output data in the United States were used to construct the 2014 direct requirements matrix and generate a network of economic interdependencies between industry sectors. Community detection, a complex network analysis method, was used to reveal the Corresponding VCs in the economic network. A novel procedure uncovered hierarchical VC communities (VCCs) for each freight transportation and logistics sector. Thus, seven distinctive VCCs with unique underlying activities were found. In general, freight industries are hierarchically clustered to VCCs related to raw materials; services; metals; agriculture; textile, apparel, and paper; wood products; and others. Results are important for the areas of transportation economics, regional economic development, competitiveness, and multimodal freight transportation.
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GHIJSEN, PAUL W. TH, JANJAAP SEMEIJN, and HERMAN VAN DER LINDEN. "Rail Freight in Europe: Different Perspectives on Archieving Higher Service Levels." Transportation Journal 46, no. 4 (2007): 42–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.46.4.0042.
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Nutovich, V. E. "ANALYSIS OF CONTRAVENTIONS TO TRANSPORTATION PROCESSES AND TRANSPORTATION QUALITY MANAGEMENT." World of Transport and Transportation 16, no. 2 (April 28, 2018): 156–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2018-16-2-15.
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For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version). ABSTRACT The article outlines the main provisions of the methodology for analyzing the quality of transport services provided in the process of freight rail transportation. The methodology assumes the analysis in a fully automated way in the EASAPR SFTO system in interaction with adjacent corporate systems for all types of violations of transportation processes, both at the time of their detection, and regardless of the subsequent filing of claims. The result is a clarification of the effect of various factors and operating factors on the overall financial risks of JSC Russian Railways particularly in case of customers’ claims. The methodology is aimed at improving the quality of freight transportation, development of client focused operations and improvement of the image of JSC Russian Railways. Keywords: railway, cargo transportation, quality management, violation analysis, methodology, corporate systems.
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Jain, Anuradha, Rob van der Heijden, Vincent Marchau, and Dirk Bruckmann. "Towards Rail-Road Online Exchange Platforms in EU-Freight Transportation Markets: An Analysis of Matching Supply and Demand in Multimodal Services." Sustainability 12, no. 24 (December 10, 2020): 10321. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su122410321.
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The European Union (EU) is confronted with too low a share of inland rail freight transport. The implementation of two-sided online exchanges for rail-road freight transport could increase this share. However, such exchanges focusing on the EU market are mainly designed for single modes of transport. Their matching of supply and demand for multimodal services, especially including rail, is still in its infancy. This paper applies a maturity growth framework to speed up the implementation of such multimodal online exchanges. The framework integrates insights from industrial organization theory, platform economy theory, and maturity growth theory. Online exchanges, summarized in a new taxonomy, are compared to study their practices on matching supply with demand on the exchange, especially for multimodal services. Data is collected from case studies, exchange websites and semi-structured interviews. The analysis shows the emergence of new market actors and business models, including digital freight forwarders. These offer a variety of transport mode solutions for EU inland and EU related global freight transport. Maturity in matching supply and demand appears to result from clear objectives to provide benefits to the exchange participants, notably by digitizing the data for transaction completion and providing real time support for operational issues. In this context of rising online exchanges, especially in road and global multimodal transport (air, ocean, and road), the competition to capture a fragmented freight market seems to steadily increase. A similar maturity analysis of exchanges could not be found.
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Lavrov, I. M. "Development of the House of Quality for Rail Transportation Market." World of Transport and Transportation 18, no. 2 (December 18, 2020): 136–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2020-18-136-157.
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The article discusses the features and application of the technology of deployment of quality functions. The objective of the article is to present an efficient methodology allowing transport companies to make management decisions in the field of improving the quality of transport services provided to cargo owners. The technique was developed based on the House of Quality model (matrix) in the framework of the Total Quality Management (TQM) concept. Using logical, graphic, factorial, comparative, balance methods and considered technology the article describes in detail the structure and the procedure for constructing the House of Quality matrix within the process of analysis of rail transportation companies and focusing on the features and criteria of customer preferences in the field of rail freight transportation. Actual examples were used to show particularities of provision of rail transportation services. The developed technique and recommendations may be useful for transport companies to proceed with multiple factor analysis if their activity in the field of quality management, to assess efficacy and identify priorities while making decisions aimed at increasing quality of transportation services.
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Derkach, Е. М. "LEGAL ISSUES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC COMPETITION IN THE FIELD OF RAILWAY TRANSPORT." Economics and Law, no. 3 (October 22, 2020): 79–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/econlaw.2020.03.079.
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The article highlights the current problems of economic competition in the field of railway transport, as well as identifies areas for the development of relevant legislation. It is noted that the competitive rail freight market has currently being formed. Moreover, the tariff system and the public management in the field of rail transport have being reformed in accordance with EU legislation. The author supports the idea of separating the monopoly sector (the ownership of strategic infrastructure of railway transport), the potentially competitive sector (the market of freight mainline locomotives that includes the private mainline locomotives providing rail transportation) and the competitive sector (rendering services for the carriage of goods and passengers by rail). The author emphasizes that implementation of the competitive terms in mentioned area challenges the appropriate legal framework in order to ensure the demonopolization of the locomotive traction market, separating the functions of the railway operator and the infrastructure operator, formatting the tariff policy with incentives. The researcher concludes that a balanced legal policy is needed, taking into account the interests of the state, business, railway industry. In addition, it is necessary to create the adequate legal basis for the development of fair economic competition in the field of rail freight transportation. It is noted that the priority tasks are as follows: creating a national commission as an independent regulatory body for natural monopolies in the field of transport, in particular in the field of railway transport; adopting the specific Law of Ukraine "On Railway Transport", amending the Economic Code of Ukraine in terms of concluding commercial agreements on the organization of transportation, in particular electronic ones; supplementing transportation participants with new entities, such as the infrastructure operator, the railway transportation operator.
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Tulupov, A. V., A. V. Beloshitsky, E. A. Shitov, and A. Shitova. "Innovative, Scientific and Technological Priorities of Railway Freight Transport." World of Transport and Transportation 19, no. 5 (July 8, 2022): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2021-19-5-7.
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Seven main priorities for development of rail cargo transportation are emerging in the context of an active intensification of scientific and technological development cycles, widespread digitalisation of business processes and an increase in competition in the transport industry. A key element of increasing the attractiveness of rail cargo transportation is its innovative, scientific, and technological development, especially in terms of increasing customer focus. Today, the principles of customer focus in the field of railway transportation of goods are among core factors in competitiveness of railway carriers. This issue is particularly relevant for the Russian Federation that owns a high potential for development of transit routes thanks to its advantageous geographic location. This fact determines attractiveness of railway transportation for cargo haulage customers. The image of future scientific and technological development of railway cargo traffic is formed under the influence of such trends as development of heavy-haul rail traffic, international container transportation, proactive introduction of digital technologies for interacting with customers and monitoring the condition of rolling stock, the provision of services within a single transport and information space, increase in margins and environmental safety of transportation. Digital transformation of the transportation process is among high priorities, which is explained through the importance of maintaining safety of transportation, increasing the transit capacity of the railway network and development of an integrated system for ensuring openness of data to provide customers with all the necessary information. Another priority area serves to increase the economic efficiency of cargo traffic by achieving growth in the share of high-margin goods. Such goods may include pharmaceutical and perishable products, information and communication, electronic and radio-electronic products, etc. An increase in the share of such transportation with a decrease in the volume of coal/oil transportation also has a positive effect on external appearance of the railway company for external investors. The image of the future of rail cargo transportation is largely dependent on various external and internal factors having effect on the industry. Besides, it depends on the emerging macro-trends in the global economy, which determine a certain vector for development of the railway industry. The study, to achieve its purposes, has widely used qualitative research methods and bibliometric analysis of scientific literature, international strategic and program documents of the industry and its companies.
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Sinitsyna, A. S., E. A. Ovchinnikova, and S. A. Galyant. "PRICE LIST 10-01: MECHANISMS FOR TARIFF REGULATION." World of Transport and Transportation 16, no. 1 (February 28, 2018): 90–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2018-16-1-9.
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[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].ABSTRACT In the countries of the European Union and Russia, the owner of the railway infrastructure is the state, and the rolling stock is owned by private companies. With this model of organizing the railway industry, the main source of income for the owner of the public infrastructure is freight transportation. The main advantages of this model are the low level of monopoly power of the rolling stock owners and low probability of discrimination in access to infrastructure, and the disadvantages are low incentives for investing in infrastructure development. Consequently, the main problem for a monopolist is to attract cargo owners to transportation by rail. As it is known, the criterion of attractiveness of a particular mode of transport for a cargo owner is the cost of transportation (low tariff load), which is regulated on the Russian Railways by Price list 10-01 «Tariffs for transportation of goods and infrastructure services performed by Russian railways». Since reorganization of the tariff system in 2003, the car component of the railway freight tariff varies depending on the market conditions of the fleet of freight cars owned by the operator companies, and the infrastructure component is regulated by the infrastructure owner which is the the state. At the same time, the role of state antimonopoly regulation is of great importance, which directly affects the rail freight transportation market, and, as a consequence, the tariff. An alternative is the American model of railway organization (used in the US, Canada, some countries of South America), which has a high level of monopoly power of carriers, rolling stock operators and infrastructure owners, high probability of discrimination in access to infrastructure, high incentives to invest in infrastructure modernization. At the same time, several vertically integrated companies operate on the rail freight transportation market, and competition occurs both between private railway infrastructures and between carriers and rolling stock owners who can compete on each other’s infrastructure. State antimonopoly regulation is absent, which increases the importance of bilateral contracts between market participants. A consequence of this is the dependence of the tariff on rail freight transport exclusively on the market conjuncture. The article shows the sequence of evolution of the current Price list 10-01 «Tariffs for transportation of goods and infrastructure services performed by Russian railways» in market conditions. The foreign experience of state regulation of freight tariffs is considered at the example of two alternative models - American and European. The analysis of influence of demand and supply, formed on the domestic market by owners of cars, has been made. The structure of tariff classes and the principles of their formation are shown. One of the key features of the current system is the so-called «tariff corridor». The most significant problems are identified - cross-subsidization of lowyield cargo traffic and tariff construction by a cost principle in a state-regulated segment. Keywords: railway transport, Price list 10-01, freight transportation, tariffs, system principles.
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Cutler, Marc, Lance Grenzeback, Alice Cheng, and Richard Roberts. "Assessment of Market Demand for Cross-Harbor Rail Freight Service in the New York Metropolitan Region." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1719, no. 1 (January 2000): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1719-03.
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An investment study sponsored by the New York City Economic Development Corporation with Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 funds evaluated strategies for improving the movement of freight by rail to an 11-county subregion (including New York City) of the New York and northern New Jersey metropolitan area located east of the Hudson River. The major achievements of the process were the use of choice modeling techniques to understand the decision making of shippers and, in combination with other data sources, forecasting the demand for freight infrastructure investments. The methodologies described are applicable to the study of freight transportation investment strategies in many settings. The key finding of the analysis is that a rail freight tunnel would increase rail mode share relative to other alternatives and the so-called No Build case. The subregion east of the Hudson contains two-thirds of the region’s population, but it is at a significant disadvantage in the movement of freight relative to the subregion west of the Hudson. Rail accounts for only 2.8 percent of all the subregion’s shipments, compared to 15 percent within the subregion west of the Hudson. Two limited rail crossings of the Hudson River provide access to New York City and the rest of the east subregion. These conditions affect the level of truck traffic and air pollution within the subregion, the subregion’s overall economic competitiveness, and the viability of its port facilities. To address these concerns, four families of alternatives that could improve cross-harbor rail freight service were analyzed. Discussed is how the market demand for these alternatives was analyzed by linking six distinct methodologies and data sets: ( a) regional economic forecasts, ( b) commodity flow data, ( c) a modal diversion model, ( d) regional port forecasts, ( e) a regional travel demand forecasting model, and ( f) user benefit calculation models.
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Lyovin, B. A., and O. V. Efimova. "DIGITAL LOGISTICS AND ELECTRONIC DATA EXCHANGE IN FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION." World of Transport and Transportation 15, no. 2 (April 28, 2017): 142–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2017-15-2-13.
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[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].ABSTRACT The article depictures approaches to building a new model of interaction and system optimization of business processes based on the use of digital technologies at all stages of shaping the value chain of products and services that provide the creation of an information platform for digital economy. The methodical foundations of formation of the evidence base for development of digital logistics and introduction of legally significant electronic data exchange in the organization of rail transportation are considered. Keywords: digital technologies, freight transportation market, electronic document management, information system of organization of relations with customers of the holding Russian Railways in the field of freight transportation, losses in the transport sector.
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Xin, Xiaoyu. "Service network design for freight railway transportation: The Chinese case." PLOS ONE 17, no. 12 (December 1, 2022): e0276671. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276671.
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Service network design is a typical tactical planning problem faced in freight railway transportation. In this paper, we propose an integer linear programming model for the rail freight service network design problem in the context of the China railway system. The model aims to minimize the overall costs (including train costs and car costs) while satisfying a set of practical restrictions and operational requirements. Our model also considers a distinct operational feature in Chinese railway transportation practice, i.e., the tree-shaped path. A numerical experiment as well as a real-life case study from the China Railway Jinan Group (CR Jinan) is conducted to demonstrate the proposed solution approach. The real-life problem size reaches as many as 139 stations, 473 alternative train services and 562 shipments. Computational results show that our proposed approach is able to obtain quality solutions within a reasonable time frame.
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Zhao, Zhi, Ya Ya Lu, Xing Hua Liu, Ying Jiang, and Yan Zhou Zhang. "Connection Analysis of Different Modes in Multimodal Transport." E3S Web of Conferences 38 (2018): 04011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20183804011.
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As the most advanced way of transport organization, container multimodal transport provides high quality and efficient systematic logistics transportation services in a wide range of freight transport activities. So it has been widely promoted worldwide. China is in a period of sustained and rapid economic development, which needs greater support from logistics, while the rationalization of multimodal transport enables the best transport area of each transportation mode to be reflected. This paper makes an analysis of the connection between united transportation of railway and highway, rail and water transport and untied transportation of highway and water.
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GHIJSEN, PAUL W. TH, JANJAAP SEMEIJN, and HERMAN VAN DER LINDEN. "Rail Freight in Europe: Different Perspectives on Archieving Higher Service Levels." Transportation Journal 46, no. 4 (2007): 42–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20713688.
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Kuzmin, P. S. "OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF RAIL FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION ALONG THE TRANSPORT CORRIDORS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION." Strategic decisions and risk management 11, no. 2 (September 23, 2020): 160–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.17747/2618-947x-2020-2-160-171.
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The greatest prospects associated with transnational rail freight are determined by the use of containers. In Russian publications, the development of containerized cargo transportation is mainly considered by analyzing the general laws of functioning of international transport corridors. At the same time, aspects affecting infrastructure diagnostics and analysis of the throughput capacity of sections of the railway network are not considered.The purpose of the study was to identify the characteristics of freight flows in the direction of the EU—EAEU—PRC, to identify infrastructure barriers that slow down the acceleration and increase in the volume of container railway freight transportation, as well as to develop a set of measures aimed at improving the competitiveness of container railway freight transportation along the transport corridors of the Russian Federation.In the course of the study, infrastructural diagnostics was carried out, which revealed a number of barriers that did not allow realizing the growth potential of transit container cargo transportation.To remove infrastructure barriers, it is necessary to implement a number of measures, the key of which are measures to increase the capacity of infrastructure at border crossings, increase the speed of trains along the railway networks of JSCo RZD, develop terminal and logistics centers that provide a wide range of services for consignors and consignees.The development of container rail freight is a strategically important area for the Russian Federation. The well-coordinated work of Russian Railways with private investors and the state in the framework of expanding and modernizing the terminal infrastructure, as well as increasing intermodal interactions, is able to overcome the existing infrastructure barriers and ensure the growth of container transit in the required volumes.
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Kornaszewski, Mieczysław, Przemysław Ciszak, and Henryk Zielaskiewicz. "Railway sidings as a freight generator from the perspective of legal provisions." Transportation Overview - Przeglad Komunikacyjny 2020, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.35117/a_eng_20_01_03.
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The paper characterizes conditionings of demand on railway cargo carriages in Poland. Advantages of geographical location of Poland were shown from the perspective of international freight corridors scheme. Historic intermodal freight volumes were visualized and taken in reference. The authors took an effort to define notions for a set of elements of logistic infrastructure with substantial meaning for functioning of railway transportation. Key focus was put on features of railway sidings and operational issues linked to their usage. Subjective law provisions and regulations of high significance were quoted and commented. Reasonableness of offering grants from European Union public funds for creation or amelioration of railway reloading facilities was proven in the context of EU transport policy aimed at support for modal shift to environmentally friendly shipping solutions. Keywords: Rail transport services; Logistics infrastructure; Railway sidings; Act on rail transport
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Sun, Yan, and Maoxiang Lang. "Modeling the Multicommodity Multimodal Routing Problem with Schedule-Based Services and Carbon Dioxide Emission Costs." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2015 (2015): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/406218.
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We explore a freight routing problem wherein the aim is to assign optimal routes to move commodities through a multimodal transportation network. This problem belongs to the operational level of service network planning. The following formulation characteristics will be comprehensively considered: (1) multicommodity flow routing; (2) a capacitated multimodal transportation network with schedule-based rail services and time-flexible road services; (3) carbon dioxide emissions consideration; and (4) a generalized costs optimum oriented to customer demands. The specific planning of freight routing is thus defined as a capacitated time-sensitive multicommodity multimodal generalized shortest path problem. To solve this problem systematically, we first establish a node-arc-based mixed integer nonlinear programming model that combines the above formulation characteristics in a comprehensive manner. Then, we develop a linearization method to transform the proposed model into a linear one. Finally, a computational experiment from the Chinese inland container export business is presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the model and linearization method. The computational results indicate that implementing the proposed model and linearization method in the mathematical programming software Lingo can effectively solve the large-scale practical multicommodity multimodal transportation routing problem.
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Panchenko, Serhii, Yevhenii Balaka, Vladyslav Panchenko, and Maryna Rezunenko. "TRANSPORT EVOLUTION AND MODERN CHALLENGES OF UKRAINIAN RAILWAY." Collected scientific works of Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport, no. 199 (June 10, 2022): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.18664/1994-7852.199.2022.258816.
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The article deals with the patterns of the transport system development and, inparticular, rail freight transport under the influence of the general laws of dialectics. There has beenconducted a comparative analysis of the performance of rail and road transport, in particular freighttraffic, freight turnover and the average distance of transportation. The volumes of freighttransportation by Ukrainian railways and the availability of rolling stock have been analyzed. Themain identified quality indicators of the economic-mathematical model and regularities betweenquantitative changes in the system of social division of labour led to quantitative changes in thetransport sector, which serves the manufacturing sector. It has been determined that the current stateof the railway and further maintenance of its competitiveness even taking into account the existingvolume of transport services requires immediate solution of technical and technological as well asorganizational issues regarding modernization of rolling stock, improvement of railwayinfrastructure and management system. The analysis of foreign and domestic experience of transportactivity testified to the narrowing of railway transportation segment, with the railways dealing mostlywith the transportation of bulk cargo. There has been conducted a correlation-regression analysis ofthe impact of the main locomotives and freight cars on the volume of freight traffic. It has been definedthat the level of influence of the main locomotives fleet on the provision of uninterruptedtransportation is almost twice as high as the influence of the operational fleet of cars. It has beenfound out that the most important issue is to further ensure the functionality of available means oftransport. It has been concluded that the priority task today is the introduction of innovations that can extend the operational capacity of the available locomotive fleet through the introduction ofmodern technologies.
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Бакалінський, О. В., and В. В. Маліцький. "АНАЛІЗ ДІЇ РИНКОВИХ ЧИННИКІВ, ЯКІ ВИКЛИКАЮТЬ НОВІТНІ ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ РИНКУ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ВАНТАЖНИХ ВАГОНІВ." Automobile Roads and Road Construction, no. 112 (November 30, 2022): 401–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33744/0365-8171-2022-112-401-414.
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The transition of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" to the market implementation of services for the use of freight cars caused a drop in demand for the Company's cars over the past three years by more than 1.5 times. At the same time, the decrease in the total volume of cargo transportation by rail transport amounted to about 3%. The purpose of this work is to study the market factors that influenced the change in demand for wagons of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia". It is proposed to form trends in the market of services for the use of freight cars. The study showed that the structure of demand for JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" wagons is uneven. It directly depends on the types of wagons offered, their condition, the price of use, as well as the type of cargo being transported. Freight wagons for the transportation of bulk cargo (raw materials, grain, oil products, metals and products thereof) are in the greatest demand among customers. The company's largest income from this service is generated by large clients. They mostly order wagons for transporting bulk cargo. Demand for other types of wagons is generated by small companies. However, their share in the income structure is insignificant. Reserves of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" allow to satisfy the increased demand for freight cars. Among the factors that influenced the decrease in demand for the Company's wagons, the following stand out: competitors' provision of newer wagons; untimely change of price offers; untimely repairs of freight cars; bureaucratic obstacles in providing the service; outdated approach to pricing. According to the results of the research, the authors have formed general trends of the market of services for the use of freight cars. Threats negatively affecting the demand structure of this market are outlined. Selected opportunities, the use of which will enable JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia" to compete with other owners of freight cars that provide them for use.
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Zhang, Xiaoqiang, Lin Li, and Jin Zhang. "An optimal service model for rail freight transportation: Pricing, planning, and emission reducing." Journal of Cleaner Production 218 (May 2019): 565–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.285.
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Zhuravleva, Natalia Aleksandrovna, Ilya Mikhailovich Gulyi, and Mark Aleksandrovich Polyanichko. "MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION AND MODELLING OF TRANSPORTATION OF CARGOES ON THE BASE DIGITAL RAILWAY." ENVIRONMENT. TECHNOLOGIES. RESOURCES. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference 2 (June 20, 2019): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/etr2019vol2.4049.
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This article presents the results of a mathematical description of the transportation process of goods by rail on the exit routes. The parameters reflecting state of time, speed and cost of the actual performance of the freight transportation are simulated, which makes it possible to identify and respond in time to the risk caused by interaction between adjacent subjects and objects for transportation. An algorithm to respond to a decrease in speed of transportation is determined. It is substantiated that the efficiency in transportation provides the level of development in transport and logistics system as an infrastructure of a new technological order. The price of these systems generates added value due to speed, inter modality services, drawing up optimal routes for cargo delivery, ensuring full car loads, passage control of goods at all stages of the logistics chain, etc., i.e. through the integration of products and services, considering the dominant global network of production and consumption. This work is an implementation element of digital formats in the operational activity of railways. The created model implements the “traceability” of information about the movement of cargo traffic in exit routes, generating Fast Date for time-sensitive decision-making process and Smart Date for asymmetric analytics. In contrast to the traditional model of transportation, the proposed solution is based on a mathematical description of all stages of the life cycle of freight (trains), which allows evaluating all costs by type of each process of transportation (movement and idle time) in real time mode. This approach takes into account the "investment" in the formation of value of all enterprises involved in transportation, including the condition and operation of technical infrastructure, locomotives, locomotive crews, wagon and freight facilities employees, and the movers themselves who provide and manage the transportation process. It is proved that the further growth of the profitability of the transport business is in direct correlation with the increase in the marginal profitability of shippers, and decrease of the transport component in the final price of goods achieved as result of digitizing the process of cargo transportation in the exit routes. The research methodology is based on the process-functional approach to describing the life cycle of a freight train, analysis factor for technical and economic characteristics of the transportation process and dynamic modelling of the parameters of significant means of elements affecting the transportation process. The information basis of the study relies on a representative sample of loading and unloading of goods in areas of mass traffic. We have investigated dependent (homomorphic) and independent (singular) pairs in accordance with the time, cost, and technical parameters.
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Melnik, Rafał, and Mariusz Kostrzewski. "Rail Vehicle's Suspension Monitoring System - Analysis of Results Obtained in Tests of the Prototype." Key Engineering Materials 518 (July 2012): 281–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.518.281.
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The active safety issue of rail vehicles is important for providing regular transportation services and minimizing the risk of accidents. One of the solutions to the problem of assuring high level of active safety is applying the condition monitoring of suspension system. Suspension, as a part of running gear, is crucial for providing proper running behavior stability. The increasing demands on improving safety of railway transport has led to development of prototype of rail vehicles' suspension monitoring system at Monitoring of Technical State of Construction and Evaluation of its Lifespan Project (MONIT). The idea of the system is qualitative assessment of suspension condition based on acceleration signals measured on bogie frames, wheels and body. The monitoring system prototype has been tested on passenger and freight cars in two states of suspension condition: nominal and damaged. Experimental tests have been performed on experimental track near Zmigrod in Poland. This paper presents analysis of the results obtained from the tests of the rail vehicles' suspension monitoring system prototype.
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Li, Zhujun, Amer Shalaby, Matthew J. Roorda, and Baohua Mao. "Urban rail service design for collaborative passenger and freight transport." Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 147 (March 2021): 102205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102205.
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Churella, Albert J. "Delivery to the Customer's Door: Efficiency, Regulatory Policy, and Integrated Rail-Truck Operations, 1900–1938." Enterprise & Society 10, no. 1 (March 2009): 98–136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1467222700007862.
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During the first third of the twentieth century, U. S. railroad executives offered local collection and delivery trucking operations. Railroad managers claimed, with justification, that these services were necessary to reduce congestion at urban freight terminals, and to increase the operating efficiency. Yet, executives also employed collection and delivery practices to discriminate against shippers and communities, and to draw business away from rival carriers, in violation of the 1887 Interstate Commerce Act, the 1903 Elkins Act, and the Transportation Act of 1920. During the 1920s, as competition from independent truckers became more intense, railroad managers used their inherent advantage in line-haul service to cross-subsidize local delivery services, to the detriment of independent motor carriers—an issue of considerable concern to Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) commissioners, following the passage of the 1935 Motor Carrier Act. The railroads' emphasis on the productive efficiency associated with local trucking operations conflicted with the allocative efficiency advocated by federal courts and by the ICC. Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman, in particular, emphasized both the potential benefits and the potential dangers associated with coordinated rail-truck service. More broadly, the status of that service, as one of the few forms of transportation that lay beyond the ICC's authority, stemmed from a complex interaction, over several decades, between all three branches of the federal government. By 1938, the ICC commissioners had concluded that the railroads' local delivery operations occupied a nebulous region between rail and truck regulation. While lawful, they did not serve as a model for post-1945 efforts to achieve integrated, multi-modal transportation services.
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Belyaev, V. M., and N. A. Filippova. "FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSPORT SYSTEM ORGANIZATION IN NORTHERN REGIONS." World of Transport and Transportation 15, no. 1 (February 28, 2017): 162–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2017-15-1-14.
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[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].ABSTRACT Transport is considered as a single object of management (industry), which is part of the general transport complex of the Northern region. The coordinated development and organization of interaction of the sector of freight transportation by road transport with other modes of transport make the transport complex of the region not just the sum of individual industries but a single complex providing for interaction of water, rail, road and air transport (sea, railways, roads and aviation) and providing users of transport services with an additional systemic effect. Management of such a complex can be ensured through logistics centers, which are large operators that organize the work of carriers of goods by road in the context of a common transport-logistics system. Keywords: transport, management, logistics, terminal, northern regions, cargo, transportation services.
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Anna Dolinayová, Igor Dömény, Jan Jansák, and Peter Šulko. "Single European Railway Area and the Problem of Rail Infrastructure Charges - Case Studies in V4 Countries." Communications - Scientific letters of the University of Zilina 23, no. 4 (October 1, 2021): A208—A222. http://dx.doi.org/10.26552/com.c.2021.4.a208-a222.
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This paper deals with the charging system and rail infrastructure fees use in V4 countries. The goal was to find out how the charges differ in terms of the train type, weight and distance traveled on different track categories. The charging principle for minimum access packages and for the access and services supplied in service facilities was investigated. Due to different technical, technological and other conditions for the rail infrastructure capacity utilization, the modeled situation was compared to the real one. This research shows differences between individual countries, both in the charging system and in the price for the rail infrastructure use (the prices were recalculated to € and in the PPP-purchasing power parity). It is interesting that the differences are not only significant with regard to the category of track used and the train's weight (especially in the freight transport), but with regard to other factors, as well, in particular the type of train and price for the use of railway stations.
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Dvulit, Zoryana, Liana Maznyk, and Ivanna Danyliuk. "Modeling in the field of freight transportation: ambivalence of management decisions in the conditions of quarantine restrictions and economic competition." Management and Entrepreneurship in Ukraine: the stages of formation and problems of development 2021, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 104–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/smeu2021.01.104.
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The study focuses on the ambiguity of management decisions in conditions of economic competition and quarantine restrictions. It is concluded that in the field of freight transportation there are antagonistic interests of the environment in the process of making management decisions by managers of JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia”. The classification of information situations related to the uncertainty of the environment is used, according to which the fifth information situation most closely corresponds to the current situation in the market of transport services. The choice of the fifth information situation is due to the factors caused by the government’s decisions to impose quarantine restrictions. Most of these factors have had a negative impact on the expectations of businesses in general and cargo owners in particular. The state of economic competition in the field of freight transportation was studied by analyzing the structure of goods by different modes of transport for January-November 2019-2020, indicating the absence of significant changes or restrictions on freight traffic. Thus, quarantine restrictions did not cause irreparable damage to the railway industry directly, but they indirectly affected a number of indicators. Analysis of economic competition, level of uncertainty, degree of ambivalence of government decisions and structural and dynamic analysis of the market of transport services in January-November 2019-2020, allowed creating a methodology that ensures the validity of management decisions in economic competition and ambivalence of government actions. It consists of 6 stages: formulation of the purpose; formation of the corresponding information base; formation of an expert group; direct survey; selection of the most promising solutions for stabilizing the situation in the field of rail freight; assessment of the homogeneity of the expert group. The application of this technique gives railway companies additional competitive advantages, even in conditions of growing uncertainty and risk.
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MACIOSZEK, Elżbieta. "ANALYSIS OF THE VOLUME OF PASSENGERS AND CARGO IN RAIL AND ROAD TRANSPORT IN POLAND IN 2009-2019." Scientific Journal of Silesian University of Technology. Series Transport 113 (December 1, 2021): 133–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.20858/sjsutst.2021.113.10.
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Transport plays an important role in the economy of any country. Efficient and developed transport infrastructure of various modes of transport significantly affects the availability of transport services, and consequently, the well-being of citizens. This article presents an analysis of the volume of passengers and cargo transport using rail and road transport in Poland in 2009-2019. These analyses were carried out based on data obtained from the Central Statistical Office. All data concerns Polish entities that provide services in the field of passenger and freight transport in Poland and focuses on such information as the volume of passengers and cargo by individual means of transport, broken down into domestic and international transport. Further, the presented analyses concern the length of the available rail and road routes, tracks, the size of the rolling stock as well as the groups of transported loads.
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Sun and Li. "Fuzzy Programming Approaches for Modeling a Customer-Centred Freight Routing Problem in the Road-Rail Intermodal Hub-and-Spoke Network with Fuzzy Soft Time Windows and Multiple Sources of Time Uncertainty." Mathematics 7, no. 8 (August 12, 2019): 739. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math7080739.
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In this study, we systematically investigate a road-rail intermodal routing problem the optimization of which is oriented on the customer demands on transportation economy, timeliness and reliability. The road-rail intermodal transportation system is modelled as a hub-and-spoke network that contains time-flexible container truck services and scheduled container train services. The transportation timeliness is optimized by using fuzzy soft time windows associated with the service level of the transportation. Reliability is enhanced by considering multiple sources of time uncertainty, including road travel time and loading/unloading time. Such uncertainty is modelled by using fuzzy set theory. Triangular fuzzy numbers are adopted to represent the uncertain time. Under the above consideration, we first establish a fuzzy mixed integer nonlinear programming model with a weighted objective that includes minimizing the costs and maximizing the service level for accomplishing transportation orders. Then we use the fuzzy expected value model and fuzzy chance-constrained programming separately to realize the defuzzification of the fuzzy objective and use fuzzy chance-constrained programming to deal with the fuzzy constraint. After defuzzification and linearization, an equivalent mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is generated to enable the problem to be solved by mathematical programming software. Finally, a numerical case modified from our previous study is presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed fuzzy programming approaches. Sensitivity analysis and fuzzy simulation are comprehensively utilized to discuss the effects of the fuzzy soft time windows and time uncertainty on the routing optimization and help decision makers to better design a crisp transportation plan that can effectively make tradeoffs among economy, timeliness and reliability.
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RYBCHUK, Anatoly, Igor ZHURBA, and Yurii KRAVCHYK. "GLOBAL IMPACTS OF THE PANDEMIC CRISIS ON THE MARKET OF TRANSPORT SERVICES." Herald of Khmelnytskyi National University. Economic sciences 308, no. 4 (July 28, 2022): 319–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31891/2307-5740-2022-308-4-49.
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Further expansion and deepening of globalization processes largely depends on the efficiency of functioning of such an important infrastructure element as transport. For several centuries, transport has been the leading link that connects national economies and their business entities. Transportation is a key area of the global economy that fulfills society’s vital need to move passengers, labor, and goods. It is transport that creates the basis for effective foreign and domestic trade, passenger and cargo transportation. The expansion of the scale of world trade, associated with the deepening of the international division of labor, led to the rapid growth of the transport services market, which was temporarily affected by the global pandemic. The article examines the peculiarities of the functioning of the transport services market in the pre-crisis period and in the global pandemic. The impact of the pandemic crisis on all segments of the global passenger and freight industry is analyzed. It is established that a number of peculiarities can be traced in the functioning of structural elements of the transport market in the conditions of COVID-19: secondly, rail transport services have been significantly reduced due to severe quarantine restrictions, reduced train traffic and a global decline in production; third, declining trade and supply chain disruptions have led to restrictions on road transport; fourth; the demand for passenger air transportation decreased the most during the analyzed period; fifth, the global market for pipeline transport services has been slightly affected by co-constraints and is showing strong growth. The gradual recovery of all segments of the global transport services market has been confirmed.
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O, Bakalinsky, and Malitskiy V. "UPDATE OF THE PROCEDURE FOR SETTING THE PRICE FOR THE SERVICE FOR THE USE OF FREIGHT CARS OF JSC «UKRZALIZNYTSYA» BASED ON THE APPROACH OF F. RAMSEY." National Transport University Bulletin 2, no. 52 (2022): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.33744/2308-6645-2022-2-52-022-032.
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The aim of the study – updating the procedure for determining the price for the use of freight cars of JSC «Ukrzaliznytsia» by supplementing it with stages that implement pricing according to F. Ramsey. Determination of market factors influencing the setting of prices for the use of freight cars. Based on the analysis of the existing pricing practice according to Ramsey, the identification of probable threats in the possible application of this approach to pricing for the use of freight cars. Methods – analysis of the existing practice of Ramsey pricing, construction of algorithms of the existing and perspective pricing procedure for services on the use of freight cars in JSC «Ukrzaliznytsia». 32 Results. The removal of freight car services from state regulation made it possible for JSC Ukrzaliznytsia to set prices for this service on its own. The pricing procedure developed and implemented by the company, which was based on the formation of prices on the basis of statistical information of previous periods, in market conditions did not give the desired result. To solve this problem, the authors proposed to update the pricing procedure based on the Ramsey theorem. The study showed that the total introduction of such an approach in rail freight transport will face insurmountable difficulties and seems unnecessary. Among the key threats are: possible increase in the price of the service for all market segments and reduction of aggregate demand, negative socio-economic effects, errors in estimating the elasticity of demand, competitors' prices, possible change in supply structure by price and type of cars. At the same time, applying this approach to local market segments will allow the company to respond in a timely manner to market reactions, actions of competitors and generate additional profits. For the practical implementation of this idea, the authors propose to develop a method for determining the individual elasticity of customer demand and to compare the effects of the old and new procedures. KEYWORDS: FREIGHT RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION, USE OF WAGONS, INDIVIDUAL ELASTICITY OF DEMAND, PRICING FOR RAMSEY
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Pengelly, Sean P., and C. Tyler Dick. "Economics and Planning of Short-Haul and Short-Line Railway Intermodal Service." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2608, no. 1 (January 2017): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2608-12.
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To develop a more competitive and efficient transportation system, railroads have engaged in intermodal freight transportation of both containers and trailers. Though intermodal rail operations have increased dramatically since the 1950s, traffic trends have also evolved with shipper demands, improved rail infrastructure, and enhanced operational strategy. Many former main railroad lines are now operated by short-line and regional carriers. Industrial centers that were once home to intermodal terminals, both large and small, have lost their intermodal connectivity since short-line and regional railroads typically do not handle intermodal traffic. With local terminals lost, shippers have been forced to increase drayage distances to centralized Class I railroad intermodal terminals. With the economies of scale afforded by recent record levels of intermodal rail traffic, opportunities have arisen to revitalize short-haul intermodal service. In many instances, short-line and regional railroads have taken this opportunity to increase traffic and revenue on their own lines as well as increase traffic on existing intermodal lanes and bring relief to over-capacity centralized inter-modal terminals. In most instances, Class I railroads remain involved through operations and marketing of the short-haul service as part of their larger national network. This report summarizes ongoing research that, through examination of current and discontinued short-haul intermodal operations and communication with rail carriers of all sizes, identifies how the strengths of short-line and regional railroads can be leveraged to improve the efficiency of the Class I railroad intermodal network.
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Gurnak, Vitaly, Inna Khomenko, and Lyudmila Volynets. "Imperatives of multimodal transport development in accordance with the tendencies of the transformational changes of the national economy in the conditions of European integration." Economics, ecology, socium 2, no. 1 (March 29, 2018): 75–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/2616-7107/2018.2.1-7.
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Introduction Despite the existing potential of freight capacity of rail, sea and river transport, their interaction is still in need of improvement. Given the high growth rates of international container traffic, Ukraine's transport infrastructure requires immediate modernization and investment in the technical and economic condition in a context of intense competition with foreign transport companies and ports.
Aim and tasks is to identify and substantiate the possibilities of improving the mechanism of organization of multimodal transportation in accordance with the latest trends and ensuring the further sustainable development of multimodal cargo transportation, etc.
Research results. It established that at the present stage, multimodal transport covers not only technological aspects of coordinated work of different types of transport, but also concerns economic, organizational and legal provision of transport process, efficient functioning of transport infrastructure, optimal use of vehicles and cargo units during traffic flow. The article investigates the theoretical basis of multimodal transport, defines the general principles of the multimodal transportation system functioning, raises the grounds for the possible development of multimodal transport and improvement of the transport industry in Ukraine, as well as increasing the competitiveness of domestic enterprises. The methodical provisions of multimodal transport development in Ukraine offered.
Conclusion. Today it is necessary to introduce new principles of formation and coordination of state policy in the field of transport, creation of conditions for ensuring control over the quality of performance of the functions of the relevant executive authorities.
Organization of multimodal transport, which will be carried out by a single operator on a single transport document and through a freight rate, will increase the quality of transport and logistic services, will ensure a high level of reliability and security of international freight delivery chains.
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DEMCHENKO, Ye. "IMPROVEMENT OF THE LOGISTIC SERVICE OF RAILWAY FERRY." Transport systems and transportation technologies, no. 22 (December 28, 2021): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15802/tstt2021/247880.
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Purpose. In modern conditions, Ukraine, having an extensive railway network and a developed infrastructure of seaports located on its Black Sea coast, is becoming a link in new goods delivery routes in the direction of the EU-China. Transportation of large consignments of goods in the direction is usually carried out in containers by sea transport. At the same time, such transportation is characterized, on the one hand, by a relatively low cost, and on the other hand, by rather long delivery times. An alternative case is transportation by mixed rail-water communication, which allows, with a moderate increase in cost, to achieve a significant reduction in the delivery time of goods. The economic attractiveness of such a transportation scheme depends significantly on the performance of ferry crossings in the Caspian and Black Seas. In this regard, the purpose of this work is to increase the efficiency of international ferry services by improving its logistics support on coastal ferry complexes. Methodology. To achieve the work purpose, methods of statistical analysis were used to determine the volume and structure of ferry traffic; simulation methods to determine effective options for loading ferries; theory of shunting work to optimize the car classification according to the cargo plan. Results. There were analyzed the requirements for ferry loading and developed a computer model that allows to create acceptable plans for the cars location on ferry decks (cargo plan). On the basis of the obtained variants of the cargo plan, the modeling of the multi-group trains forming by combinatorial and distribution methods has been carried out. Based on the simulation results, recommendations of choosing the effective method for train forming and the required number of cargo plan variants were given. Scientific novelty. The author has improved the method for determining the effective cargo plan of the ferry loading, which takes into account the process of forming the trains of cars to be supplied to the ferry. Practical significance. The obtained results can be used to improve the efficiency of international freight transportation management in mixed rail-water traffic.
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SAKUN, Lesia, and Bohdan VIELKIN. "MANAGING THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANSPORT SECTOR ENTERPRISES IN TERMS OF GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGES." Herald of Khmelnytskyi National University. Economic sciences 310, no. 5(1) (September 29, 2022): 120–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31891/2307-5740-2022-310-5(1)-19.
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The article is devoted to the latest methods used to manage the strategic development of transport enterprises in the context of globalization challenges. Steady functioning of transport enterprises contributes to the sustainable economic growth of our country. Among the biggest globalization challenges in recent years for the world economy, and particularly for Ukraine, have been the Coronavirus pandemic and hostilities with the Russian Federation. Motor transport has been and remains extremely important, along with rail transport, especially during the epidemic and the war. The article covers the dynamics of the share of freight / passenger turnover and transported goods / passengers by transport in Ukraine over the period of 2016-2021. The growth of the share of freight turnover – from 16.9% in 2016 to 22.4% in 2021; the share of transported goods – from 70.45 to 76.6%, respectively, characterizes the high competitiveness and high market potential of road transport enterprises in the Ukrainian freight market. Major problems, which should be guided by the development strategy of passenger transport enterprises of Poltava region, are explored: improving the quality of transport services for the population by updating the rolling stock of enterprises; improving the safety of transportation and reducing the negative impact on the environment; optimization of the population’s expenditures on passenger transportation. Strategic guidelines for the development of the transport system of Poltava region have been formulated. The factors that cause considerable changes in the dynamics of transport deliveries were analyzed. Transportation of humanitarian cargoes became a priority. Because of the war, the efficiency of using the transit potential of the country has significantly decreased. Military actions against the Russian Federation do not allow to fully use the strategic advantages of the Black Sea-Azov region, the total cargo turnover of which is more than 200 million tons per year. Moreover, 2714.5 km of water navigable arteries are not effectively used. Thus, river transport may be one of the strategic directions of development of the transport industry in the conditions of war and fuel crisis.
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Bereskin, C. Gregory. "Estimating Maintenance-of-Way Costs for U.S. Railroads After Deregulation." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1707, no. 1 (January 2000): 13–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1707-02.
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The movement of freight on railroads, like most transportation services, is subject to a number of restrictions that make costing of specific traffic a complex process. Among these restrictions are conditions of joint production; economies of scale, scope, and density; and a lack of data on specific expenditures as related to individual freight movements. Yet costing of specific movements is a desirable activity for shippers, railroads, and regulatory bodies. Traditionally, movement costing has involved the use of accounting-based allocative costing models such as the Uniform Rail Costing System developed by the Interstate Commerce Commission for use in regulatory hearings. Most econometric studies have aimed at characterizing the underlying economic nature of costs with little or no application to the cost of providing a specific service, and as such they may be of little use in costing specific traffic. Moving beyond the historic econometric costing models’ application of economic analysis, cost behavior is evaluated for a single sector of railroad activity. The process involves four steps. First, a consistent econometric model of total railroad expenditures is developed by applying a translog function within a multidimensional definition of railroad output. Second, the model is decomposed into individual partial-elasticity estimates relative to each of the several related intermediate output measures within the framework of a total differential of the cost function. Next, specific traffic movements are defined relative to the measures of rail output. Finally, the total differential is applied using several simplifying assumptions to yield estimates of incremental (marginal) costs for the specific traffic definition.
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Rifai, Andri Irfan, and Yuditami Iressa Fajriliani. "Analysis of Passenger Satisfaction Level of Service And Facilities of Electric Rail Train (KRL) Commuter Line Route Bekasi - Manggarai." Journal of World Conference (JWC) 2, no. 2 (March 31, 2020): 126–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.29138/prd.v2i2.212.
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The train is considered to act as strategic public transport because of its ability to reduce congestion in urban areas. Various modes of transportation are in a race - a race to improve the quality of service that requires rail freight also needs to improve in all areas. Service is the main priority which is used as a benchmark in competitive advantages and facilities are factors that affect the services provided by the transport company. This is the underlying researchers to conduct research on passenger satisfaction ratings on the level of service performance and service facilities Commuter Line KRL Bekasi - Manggarai and to determine the factors affecting passenger satisfaction. Data obtained in the form of a survey by questionnaire online delivery methods. Methods of data analysis software used isms. Excel and SPSS software for statistical testing. The conclusions of the research by the method of Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) obtained a passenger satisfaction index score of 76.11%. It is stated that the passengers very satisfied with the performance of services and facilities service station Commuter Line KRL Bekasi - Manggarai, only for the suitability of the train arrival and departure needs to be improved.