Technology for determining strategic directions for the development of a regional transport and logistics system under digitalization

The paper is concerned with the development of a regional transport and logistics system under digitalization. The paper proposes a technology for determining strategic directions for regional transport and logistics system (RTLS) development under digitalization which comprises methodological tools for analyzing the spatial structure of freight consumption and freight generation by all the participants in a transportation service system along with an algorithm and a guidance package for arranging modes for the information interaction of its participants under the control of the single information provider, and their transformation, making it possible to ensure product and material exchanges at different levels: regional, interregional and intercountry. The concepts and stipulations of this technology are considered, drawing on the properties of a transport and logistics system as an economic system along with such principles of information provision as the comprehensiveness, divisibility, interrelatedness, orderliness, integrability, complexity, emergent nature and structuredeness of its elements. The objective of the given study is to create a technology for determining strategic directions for RTLS development under digitalization. The study intends to broaden the RTLS research domain, which makes it possible to expand theoretical knowledge of the current trends in its operation in the frame of digitalization. The general scientific methods of inquiry such as observation, analysis, generalization were used to reach the stated objective. Pursuing strategic directions for the development of a transport and logistics system within the framework of the proposed projects will allow for establishing an efficient program/project management system for area development and eliminating regional economic growth limitations related to the lack of harmonization among the participants in transportation processes.