Efficient technologies in railway transport. Vadim Shmal

the entire necessary line of modern and efficient locomotives has been created – electric locomotives “Ermak”, “Granit”, “Donchak”, mainline locomotives, shunting locomotives, locomotives running on gas fuel are being tested.

      New solutions have been developed to change the structure of repair cycles, the list and frequency of work. A model of an optimized four-link locomotive repair system has been tested, including maintenance, current, depot and factory repairs. Already at the pilot project stage, this makes it possible to reduce operating costs by up to 23%, and use the saved funds to improve the quality and reliability of locomotives.

      A significant renewal of the locomotive fleet and the appearance of cars with improved characteristics predetermined the development of new, previously inaccessible technologies related to the organization of heavy traffic.

      In addition, special attention should be paid to the integration of heavy traffic with the technologies of the access roads of large enterprises. Systematic work is needed to prepare loading and unloading sites, weighing facilities, car dumpers, greenhouses. And it is carried out in close cooperation with the local executive authorities, owners of non-public roads, shippers and consignees.

      The preservation of a unified railway production infrastructure and centralized dispatching control has become a basic principle in the Structural Reform Program.

      Production verticals were created, which covered the entire range of issues of maintenance and repair of the track, energy, signaling and communications. Currently, the tasks of infrastructure management, ensuring its technical readiness for the transportation of goods and passengers are successfully solved by the company.

      These steps made it possible to radically revise approaches to infrastructure repair technology. Today, its key principles are high quality planning of repair “windows” and the choice of priority sites for their implementation.

      To improve the production discipline, the Automated system for analyzing the planning and execution of windows has been significantly improved with the inclusion of blocking functions in it in case of technology violation at the stages of preparation for “windows”. And the next stage should be the transition to a three-year planning period for the overhaul and reconstruction of railway lines.

      Consistent work on reforming the industry has made it possible to form a long-term state policy in the field of infrastructure investment.

      Despite the slowdown in economic growth in the country, the forecasts of Russia’s long-term socio-economic development are quite positive, which means that the cargo base will increase.

      One of the key areas of the company’s work is the development of infrastructure for passengers. The experience of interaction of JSC “Russian Railways” with the leadership of Moscow and the Moscow region has shown that the development of railway transport infrastructure for suburban and urban passenger transportation is possible only if there is an interest of the subject of the Russian Federation. Currently, JSC “Russian Railways” is successfully developing the Moscow transport hub.

      During the period of industry reform, a special role belongs to the transportation process management system. It is this complex that bears the main responsibility for the implementation of the key task of meeting the growing demand for services provided by rail transport. Today, it can be argued that the company has been able to adapt to new conditions, becoming more flexible in providing technological processes when interacting with our partners.

      First of all, the approach to the formation of the main document of the organization of transportation activities – the train schedule has changed.

      The balance of interests of passengers of high – speed, passenger and suburban trains with the interests of shippers and consignees is put in the first place when developing schedules for various categories of freight trains.

      Synchronization of the timing of the introduction of a new timetable and the approval of the annual budget of JSC “Russian Railways” eliminated many problems of inconsistency of their parameters. Now these key documents begin to act simultaneously, and not with a gap of six months, as it was before.

      The created traffic management vertical has consistently reformed the transportation management system. Traffic control centers have appeared, where today all the necessary means and technologies of traffic control are concentrated within the boundaries of roads. This made it possible to significantly reduce the load on the dispatching apparatus. Thanks to new information systems, the average length of dispatching stations has increased by almost a third.

      However, in order to further improve the quality of transportation activities, new, landfill technologies were needed, the first step of which was the creation of seven traction resource management centers. Their task, at the current stage, was to work out the principles of managing the locomotive fleet on elongated shoulders and create end-to-end technology no longer within the boundaries of roads, but at longer technological ranges. Today, the principles of landfill management are planned to be implemented on other important elements of the transportation process – routing of car traffic, end-to-end technology for conducting “windows”, a plan for the formation and organization of train traffic.

      At the same time, at all stages of technological transformations, the most important role belongs to railway stations as a key management link. It is here that the production processes of all verticals are connected into a single whole – traffic, infrastructure, traction, service provision, therefore, the powers and responsibilities of station managers as managers and coordinators should be strengthened.

      Marshalling yards, which were called route factories by our grandfathers, were, are and will be the basis for the uninterrupted operation of the network. This definition is still relevant today.

      The company has adopted and is implementing a Program for the development of marshalling yards of JSC “Russian Railways” until 2025. This is a strategic document defining a ten-year perspective and targets for the development of traffic volumes, the stages of modernization of pre-node stations, the transition from the information regime of automated systems to the development of control solutions.

      Today, the network loads and unloads more than 100 thousand wagons every day. Everything connected with the provision of loading and unloading, with the planning of cargo transportation, is included in the range of priority tasks to improve the operation of the station complex. It is very important here that the stations become a single center of responsibility for the quality of these processes, for effective interaction with shippers on the ground. And this approach will be implemented in stages.

      All the tasks that Russian Railways Holding solves in the field of technology should be focused on the needs of the client, ensuring the competitiveness and quality of our services.

      The logistics companies that are part of the holding actively develop comprehensive services, provide the organization of intermodal transportation not only in the Russian, but also in the international transport market. Together with the Center for Branded Transport Services, these companies carry out purposeful work to create a comfortable technological environment for shippers through coordination of interaction, reduction of paperwork, creation of a CRM system, cataloging of services. This year, the number of documents that a client needs to issue in order to access transportation services has decreased from several dozen to four.

      The evaluation of the work by the largest community of customers – passengers, of course, is especially important for the company. JSC “Russian Railways” conducts comprehensive work to improve passenger service.

      The railway stations have also changed qualitatively – today they increasingly meet the requirements of the time, and this work continues.

      It is possible to interest a passenger in railway transport services, first of all, strictly observing the timetable.

      It must be remembered that the development of the transportation