Sultan V. Zhankaziev, Dr. Sc. Eng., professor, chair of the Traffic Organisation and Safety, Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI) Andrei I. Vorob’ev, Cand. Sc. Eng., senior lecturer of the Traffic Organisation and Safety, Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI) Maksim V. Gavriliuk, senior instructor of the Traffic Organisation and Safety, Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI)

The paper provides a structure of the national network of intelligent transport systems and describes forming the structure of state system for certification of intelligent transport elements in the Russian Federation. Formation of a system for issuing safety certificates is required to ensure the due level information and cyber safety of intelligent transport systems and intelligent road infrastructure, including in depersonalisation of users’ personal data.


Keywords: intelligent transport system, intelligent road infrastructure, national intelligent transport system network, standardisation of equipment and technologies.

Contacts: sultanv@mail.ru, andrey552@yandex.ru, poligonmadi@gmail.com

Sergei A. Semenov, head of the Russian Maritime Security Service

The paper provides a brief evaluation of legal and regulatory framework for protection of commercial seaport waters from acts of unlawful interference as regards the application of rapid response teams of transport security units.


Keywords: transport security, transport security enabling forces, rapid reaction team, response unit.

Contacts: semenov@msecurity.ru

Il’ia M. Gulyi, Cand. Sc. Econ., senior lecturer, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University

Economic evaluation of transport projects, including in the sphere of railway infrastructure development, is a topical practical task and an important scientific direction. Its results allow objectively and credibly understand the practicability of implementation of projects, compare alternative options, and select the best one. The paper proposes an approach to economic evaluation of infrastructural projects for development of railway transport based on econometric calculations of influence of investments on changes to the added value of railway transportation, on cross elasticity indices that characterise influence of the projects on other types of transport, and on the general macroeconomic growth in the regions.


Keywords: economic evaluation of transport projects, econometric modelling, added value, economic growth elasticity.

Contacts: ilya.guliy@mail.ru

Oleg N. Dunaev, Dr. Sc. Econ., professor, chairman of the transport and logistics subcommittee of the international co-operation committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, director of the Centre for Strategic Development of Logistics Aleksei V. Guts, head of marketing department of the High-Speed Transportation Directorate, branch of the Russian Railways JSC

The authors consider mobility as a service of multimodal passenger transportation for the population with consolidating role of railway transport. On the basis of analysis of dynamics and structure of changes in the passenger transportation market under the influence of domestic and international-economic factors and pandemic-linked uncertainties, topicality of development of an economic system for forming an economic system of mobility of multimodal passenger transportation on the basis of network interaction is justified. An innovative product, seamless mobility as a service in organisation of multimodal passenger transportation, is proposed. Management solutions for organisation of network interaction that allow consistently improving the time value factor and provide seamless mobility as a service.


Keywords: supply and demand, passenger transportation, mobility, multimodality, network interaction, time value, seamless mobility.

Contacts: oleg.dunaev@mail.ru

Dmitrii Iu. Levin, Dr. Sc. Eng.

Logistics of railway field operation studies disruptions and risks occurring in transportation process, and develops mechanisms for fighting against them. The first part of the paper presents an extensive analysis of bottlenecks in organisation of transportation process on Russia’s railways. Concluding part of the paper is to be found in the next issue of the journal.


Keywords: railway conveyor, logistical chains of a transportation process, irregularity, spontaneity, systemic approach, interaction, regularity, final financial results.

Contacts: levindu@yandex.ru

Igor’ P. Kiselev, railway engineer, Dr. Sc. Hist., professor of the Transport System Road Construction and History, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology departments, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University Aleksandr A. Kitunin, railway engineer, Cand. Sc. Hist., senior lecturer of the History, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology department, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University

The paper presents an overview of organisation of high-speed cargo transportation with speeds of over 250 km/h in France and Italy, which had limited scale. Creation in 2020 in the People’s Republic of China of a new high-speed electrical train designed for transportation of ULD-class cargo containers at speeds of up to 350 km/h creates new prerequisites for cargo transportation by high-speed railways. At the same time, the problem of so-called technological disharmony is exacerbated as cargo handling consumes much manual labour. Development of container transportation on high-speed railways directly depends on success in designing wagons equipped for mechanised handling of ULD-class containers.


Keywords: high-speed cargo train, ULD-class containers, technological harmony.

Contacts: kis1347@mail.ru; kitunin@mail.ru

Sergei P. Vakulenko, Cand. Sc. Eng., professor, director of the Management and Digital Technlogies Institute, Russian University of Transport (MIIT) Dmitrii Iu. Romenskii, senior instructor of the Transport Business Management and Intelligent Systems department, Russian University of Transport (MIIT) Kirill A. Kalinin, assistant of the Transport Business Management and Intelligent Systems department, Russian University of Transport (MIIT)

Estimation of projected demand for passenger transportation on newly created infrastructure is very important for justification of expedience of attracting investments. Creation of instruments for estimation of projected passenger flows of planned high-speed railway mainlines in Russia will allow evaluation of strategic decisions in development of passenger railway transportation. The paper proposes a new method for evaluation of demand for passenger transportation based on determination of qualitative characteristic of the communication being formed, accounting for gravitational approach.


Keywords: high-speed railway transport, high-speed mainline, high-speed railway mainline, transport corridors, railway transport, passenger flow, transport corridor capacity.

Contacts: post-iuit@bk.ru, romensky@miit.ru, kalinin.k.a@mail.ru

Dmitrii V. Efanov, Dr. Sc. Eng., senior lecturer, deputy director general for science of research of the Complex Monitoring Systems research and engineering centre, professor of the Higher Transport School of the Engineering, Materials and Transport Institute of the Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University, professor of the Automation, Telemechanics and Communications in Railway Transport department, Russian University of Transport (MIIT) German V. Osadchii, deputy director general and chief engineer of the Complex Monitoring Systems research and engineering centre, senior instructor of the Automation and Telemechanics on the Railways department, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University

The authors propose contemporary system architecture for a train movement control system which entails fitting up each facility-level controller of peripheral railway automation equipment with specialised easily detachable diagnostic modules. In such a system, command circuits and diagnostic circuits are separated, and a segregated compute core is used for diagnosis, monitoring and forecasting. Possible methods of implementation of the control system with both centralised and decentralised distribution of equipment are described. Authors note possibilities for implementation of systems with dispersed computational resources and the use of cyber protected radio channels for controlling decentralised railway automation objects and for obtaining diagnostic data. New types of centralisation of railway movement control are described: radio centralised control and virtual centralised control of railway switches and signals. Development of these movement control technologies will make routing directly from traction vehicle possible.


Keywords: railway movement control, electric centralised control, diagnosis and monitoring of movement control equipment, railway automation, radio centralised control, virtual centralised control.

Contacts: TrES-4b@yandex.ru, osgerman@mail.ru

Anatolii V. Postolit, Dr. Sc. Eng., professor, director of the Smart Information Systems company

The paper demonstrates the possibility of creating software on basis of computer vision and artificial intelligence to ensure automation of collection of primary information about each passenger’s movement from the point of boarding a transport vehicle through to the point of disembarkation, that is, automation of forming data for building a mobility plan of passenger journeys.


Keywords: passenger transport, passenger flows, mobility plan, artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, computer vision.

Contacts: anat_post@mail.ru

Vitalii V. Popov, chief engineer of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, branch of the Russian Railways JSC Aleksandr N. Ivanov, chief engineer of the Rolling Stock Service of the Oktyabrskaya infrastructure directorate Andrei V. Smutin, automated rolling stock control systems engineer of the Oktyabrskaya infrastructure directorate Anna A. Romanova, Cand. Sc. Eng., senior lecturer of the Wagons and Rolling Stock department, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University Mariia V. Zimakova, Cand. Sc. Eng., senior lecturer of the Wagons and Rolling Stock department, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University

The paper provides an analysis of application of systems for diagnosing the technical state of cargo wagons on the Oktyabrskaya railway. The authors present the existing system of data transfer on control of the state of cargo wagon’s parts, outline shortcomings of the monitoring system, propose a scheme for complex control of the technical state of a cargo wagon on the travel route, and point out directions of development.


Keywords: cargo wagon, monitoring systems, development directions

Contacts: mazimm1987@hotmail.com

Petr V. Zhuravlev, Dr. Sc. Econ., professor of the Human Capital Development department, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, professor of the Labour Economy and Human Resources Management department, Russian University of Transport (MIIT) Larisa A. Kargina, Dr. Sc. Econ., professor, chair of the Digital Economy Information Systems, Russian University of Transport (MIIT) Sof’ia L. Lebedeva, Cand. Sc. Phys. Math., senior lecturer of the Digital Economy Information Systems, Russian University of Transport (MIIT)

The paper analyses and justifies the need for processes of continuous education and retraining of staff of Russia’s transport industry. Authors’ own approach to digitalisation of transport industry is defined. Key directions in the system of professional staff retraining that are topical for forming and developing digital culture in the transport industry under modern conditions are considered.


Keywords: digitalisation of economy, staff retraining, digital culture, digital technologies, development of human resources, continuous education efficiency, neural information methods, staff retraining directions.

Contacts: pzhurav@mail.ru, Kargina_larissa@hotmail.com, 4s.lebedeva@gmail.com

Petr M. Radchenko, Cand. Sc. Eng., professor of the Vessel Electric and Automation, Admiral G. I. Nevelskoy Maritime State University Valentin E. Krasheninin, electrical engineer, Unicom JSC (Vladivostok branch of PAO Sovcomflot) Maksim A. Makaev, electrical engineer, Unicom JSC

The paper proposes a technology for air supply of a shipboard diesel generator in transition regimes aimed at increasing economic and environmental operation indices — combustion efficiency, minimisation of formation of toxic products, improvement of engine intake, and increasing electrical energy quality in case of sudden loss of load.


Keywords: air supply, shipboard diesel generator, transition regimes.

Contacts: mikhaylovich2010@mail.ru, zveroboy–1994@mail.ru, makaev@yandex.ru

Valerii N. Miachin, Dr. Sc. Eng., professor, director general of the Scientific Research and Design Institute for Spatial Development and Transport Infrastructure Vladimir A. Fliachinskii, Cand. Sc. Mil., chief specialist, Scientific Research and Design Institute for Spatial Development and Transport Infrastructure Vladimir V. Shuliaev, deputy director general, head of transport systems department, Scientific Research and Design Institute for Spatial Development and Transport Infrastructure Mikhail G. Kondrashkin, head of passenger transportation and cargo logistics project stream, Scientific Research and Design Institute for Spatial Development and Transport Infrastructure

The paper presents an analysis of existing methodological approaches to evaluation of bicycle infrastructure quality on the basis of international recommendations. The analysis permitted to develop a methodological approach to evaluation of quality level of bicycle traffic without resorting to complex instrumental measurements of the state of bicycle infrastructure.


Keywords: bicycle traffic quality, service level, bicycle infrastructure.

Contacts: vmyachin@ipr.ru, fva@ipr.ru, vs@ipr.ru, mkondrashkin@ipr.ru

Valerii S. Kossov, Dr. Sc. Eng., professor, director general of the Scientific Research and Design Technology Institute of Rolling Stock Andrei L. Protopopov, Cand. Sc. Eng., senior researcher, Scientific Research and Design Technology Institute of Rolling Stock Grigorii M. Volkhov, Dr. Sc. Eng., head of the rolling stock and infrastructure dynamics and strength section, Scientific Research and Design Technology Institute of Rolling Stock Eduard S. Ogan’ian, Dr. Sc. Eng., chief researcher of the strength department, Scientific Research and Design Technology Institute of Rolling Stock

Authors propose a method for evaluation of strain-stress state of long-length railway rails which permits to determine residual stress in long-length rails after differential hardening and levelling. Results of evaluation of residual stress in the rail were compared to experimental results, with a good degree of correlation. Analysis of results obtained indicates that on the rail head surface longitudal residual stresses qualitatively change from the negative (compressive strain) after differential hardening to the positive (expansion stress) after mechanical levelling. The calculation method developed, unlike the traditional analytical methods, allows evaluating the stress-strain state of structures being studied with increased accuracy, and provides graphic representation of calculation results.


Keywords: rail, finite element, residual stress, strain-stress state, hardening.

Contacts: info@vnikti.com

Evgenii P. Dudkin, Dr. Sc. Eng., professor, head of the Industrial and Urban Transport research and education centre, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University Kirill A. Gmyria, MA, PhD student, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University Nariman N. Sultanov, Cand. Sc. Eng., senior lecturer of the Transport System Road Construction department, Emperor Alexander I St Petersburg State Transport University

Rail filler blocks are used in modern tram track design, and their elastic properties help achieve significant reduction of noise and vibration. Large variety of filler materials and designs complicates their use under different operational conditions, which makes it necessary to justify requirements for them. Achievement of objectives set was carried out by computer simulation using specialised computation and analysis software and comparison of results obtained to field studies. Finite elements method was used for calculation of basic characteristics that determine the fillers’ working capacity and for comparison of these indices to results of laboratory studies. Possibility of applying the proposed method to justify fillers’ parameters is outlined. Calculations allow forecasting working capacity and efficiency of fillers of various designs when replacing rails after 25 years (5 million load cycles) and operational life of monolithic reinforced concrete foundation (50 years).


Keywords: tram track, fillers, tram design, noise, vibration.

Contacts: ed@pgups-tempus.ru, gmiryk_kirill@mail.ru, 79046117746@yandex.ru