REGIONAL ASPECTS OF PASSENGER TRANSPORTATIONS BY RAILWAY
The article is devoted to the research and development of an operational control methodology in terms of passenger traffic decline. It contains a classification of Russian Federal districts on the grounds of the largest impact on the organization of passenger transport: area within the county, the population density, the density of the network of railways and roads, the density of airport infrastructure. The grouping of the classification of districts passengers ’paths is made on the basis of the classification of districts o competitive and social development of two subgroups in each group, that allows you to share the approaches to the organization of passenger transport in the particular direction. An operational losses regulation methodology is developed to reduce losses during the unscheduled traffic slowdown. The methodology is based on the calculation of the minimum admissible capacity usage coefficient in each type of railway carriage depending on the composition of the train taking into account the classification of the region and following the directions.