Efficient technologies in railway transport. Vadim Shmal

their implementation.

      The first vector is the transition from the regional principles of transportation process management to the planning and organization of train traffic at the landfills of the network.

      As noted above, the work on the organization of the transportation process within the “polygons” has been carried out in JSC “Russian Railways” since 2012, since the creation of Traction Resource Management Centers. The positive experience of organizing the work of the locomotive complex in the new conditions confirms the need to consider the next stage of optimizing the transportation process by transferring train traffic management from the road level to the landfill.

      It should be noted that there are currently several definitions of the term polygon. In particular, it is understood as a polygon of the road, the work of locomotives and locomotive crews, the following of heavy trains, etc. To form unified approaches to determining the polygon, boundary criteria, determining their optimal number, it is proposed to perform a number of scientific works in this section of the Program.

      The main task that is being solved within the framework of the first section of the Program is the transition from the functional management structure to the construction of production cycles using the principles of the process approach.

      Taking into account the existing experience in organizing the work of the locomotive fleet, in our opinion, the proposed management model will eliminate the losses existing at the junctions of roads, will provide additional consolidation of the work of all branches involved in transportation to meet the main quality indicators of work. This is extremely important at the current time, when it is necessary to ensure reasonable cost reduction and accelerated revenue growth for the holding.

      One of the important activities of the Program section is the development of unified technological processes of landfills linking the work of the Dispatch Center for Transportation Management, the Traction Resource Management Center and other enterprises operating at the landfill. When forming them, the principles of the process approach will be widely applied, which allow optimizing the activities of the main production branches and eliminating individual technological operations that do not participate in creating value for customers and do not affect the safety, reliability and quality of management decision-making.

      The transition to landfill principles of transportation process management will require updating the list of existing quantitative and qualitative indicators. Their new structure should determine not only the work of the landfill as a whole, but also the contribution of each directorate to their implementation.

      The next step aimed at improving the efficiency of the transportation process is the development of uniform requirements for management facilities located at the landfill, which will ensure the through passage of trains of unified mass and length. It is under these requirements that it is necessary to form infrastructure development programs.

      Improving the efficiency of marshalling yards is also one of the most important areas of the first block of measures.

      Thus, in order to increase their processing capacity, in particular by eliminating recycling, it is proposed to form a program for the development of auxiliary – pre-node stations with the transfer of processing of local car traffic to them. To improve the efficiency of the port stations, it is proposed to form a comprehensive program for the development of the infrastructure of railway port stations and port infrastructure.

      The second vector is the development and implementation of information technologies and modern technical means.

      This is one of the most important sections of the Program, since at present it is the development of information technologies that directly affects the quality of the transportation process, from making operational decisions on the organization of transportation activities to providing an appropriate analytical base.

      One of the priority tasks in the development of automated control systems for the transportation complex is the transition from information systems to information management systems. The implementation of the stated principles laid the foundation for a new project – an intelligent railway transport management system. The system under development provides:

      – automation of the forecast of the use of network resources, with the coordination of throughput and processing capacities, as well as the technology of planning and management of traction resources, the development of technical standards of operational work;

      – mutual linking of fully functional automated workplaces of employees of the Central Directorate;

      – the transition from solving disparate tasks to interrelated calculations of the formation plan and train schedule, taking into account specific technologies.

      That is, the whole complex of technologies for managing the transportation process.

      The automated system for organizing the movement of trains on the high-speed Moscow-St. Petersburg route is already solving the tasks of monitoring compliance with the technology of passing high-speed SAPSAN trains. The successful experience of operating the automated train control system “ACS-D” during the Winter Olympic Games has shown the possibilities of solving problems of automation of dispatching control of train traffic and route preparation. During the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the train schedule exceeded 99% with an average daily circulation of more than 200 pairs of trains.

      In the future, it is proposed to gradually introduce this system at all operating sites equipped with dispatching centralization, and with modernization and new construction, this requirement is now laid down in the technical conditions.

      The largest port station Luzhskaya is implementing the most modern technologies and technical means, most of which will be implemented for the first time on Russian railways.

      This is a dissolution management system that allows organizing the sorting process for one person (the person on duty on the hill), pulling up the cars in the sorting fleet, managing the locomotive without the participation of the driver, a special automated mode for the dissolution of wagons with dangerous goods, electronic document management.

      The draft Program assumes the implementation of measures aimed at excluding a person from the process of securing rolling stock, inspecting trains, both commercially and technically.

      Technological effects during the implementation of the second block of measures will be achieved by reducing the downtime of wagons at technical stations, increasing the speed of transportation, reducing the duration of paperwork at loading and unloading stations.

      The third vector is the introduction of a comprehensive system of local work management aimed at improving economic efficiency.

      In this section of the Development Program, measures have been developed for two directions – improving the efficiency of local work and reducing the unprofitability of inactive lines. They provide for the improvement of the technological processes of the stations, the transition to economic criteria for evaluating local work, the optimization of resources, the introduction of technology to ensure commercial reliability of cargo delivery for the entire route of their route.

      As part of the ongoing work on the categorization of railway lines, it is proposed to revise the standards for the technical content of the infrastructure, optimizing them depending on the volume of cargo transportation.

      As part of the optimization of the work of inactive lines, it is proposed to develop a program for combining professions, when in the target state, one of the employees of the locomotive crew must perform the duties of a receiver, a car inspector, a train compiler.

      A similar combination of professions (electrician – station attendant) is offered when organizing the passage of trains and troubleshooting technical means.

      The fourth vector is to increase the level of interaction between the vertical of traffic management and branches included in the business block “Railway transportation and infrastructure”.

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