Drivers and barriers to the development of freight transportation at the South-West polygon of OAO “Russian railways”

Abstract

In the future, until 2025, the volume of traffic to the ports of the Azov-Black Sea Basin (ABSB) will increase to 131 million tons per year, including through the commissioning of new transshipment capacities at the port of Taman. The total size of train traffic on the main cargo-intensive directions of the North Caucasus Railway (NCR) will double by 2030, which requires an increase in the throughput of its sections and the development of the transshipment capacity of ports. With insufficient throughput capacity due to the placement of excess trains with export cargo at railway stations, logistical principles are violated when organizing the approach of trains to the ports of ABSB. In this regard, the transition from regional to polygon technology is being carried out, which ensures timely delivery of payload to port stations. The process of coordinating the passage of trains will be accelerated by the Managing Logistics Center (MLC) of the South-West Polygon (SWP), created on the basis of the logistics center of the port road, NCR, since the MLC of the SWP will work directly with the roads where car flows originate. Algorithms for drawing up a plan for the supply of trains have been developed and measures have been proposed to improve the plan for the formation, which provides for an increase in the share of block trains to 85%, of logistics packages. In parallel, a closed polygon model for managing traction resources of railways (MLC SWP), which is part of a single polygon, has been worked out. This will ensure the transition from improving the internal performance of railways to improving system performance that is important for cargo owners.