A Cure for Railway Employees’ Headaches (Review of the Monograph «Economic Assessment of Seasonal Unevenness of Transportation»)

Abstract

Macheret, D. A., Razuvaev, A. D., Ledney, A. Yu. Economic Assessment of Seasonal Unevenness of Transportation: Monograph [Ekonomicheskaya otsenka sezonnoi neravnomernosti perevozok: Moonografiya]. Moscow, Prometei publ., 2022, 142 p. ISBN 978-5-00172-334-9. The monograph presents the results of a study of seasonal unevenness of transportation – one of the fundamental economic problems of the transport industry. Using improved methodological tools for assessing seasonal unevenness, transportation by mode of transport was analysed. A scientifically based approach to determining the influence of seasonal unevenness of transportation on the economic efficiency of the use and development of transport infrastructure is disclosed. Attention is focused on assessing the value of transport infrastructure and the economic efficiency of its development, taking into account the unevenness of transportation.