ELECTRIFICATION OF HIGHWAYS AS ONE OF THE STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS OF RAILWAY TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA
This article deals with such a task of railway transport as the electrification of sections of railway lines. The article describes the goals of electrification and the history of its development, as well as the advantages, such as increasing the capacity and carrying capacity of railway sections, quick payback, increasing the productivity of workers and others. Moreover, the article contains information about the development of railway electrification in our time, about the introduction of the latest inventions of digital systems, such as SDTP and NICS, and about equipping new sections of highways with electricity. The article tells about the problem of electrification in the Ivanovo region and about the ways to solve it, for example, about the unique project of JSC " Russian Railways "using the trailer of a diesel locomotive to the Lastochka electric train, about plans for the introduction of electrification on the Novki - Ivanovo - Nerekhta railway section and their feasibility. The article also contains information about the positive effect of electrification from the point of view of the country's economic development.