Organization of contrailer transportations in the Russian Federation and their efficiency assessment
The main idea of this research is based on the provision that the organization of contrailer transportation in Russia is a perspective way to increase the Russian Fe-deration’s railroads competitiveness and an integral part of the progressive intermodal transport links constructed and functioning on the basis of the logistic principles. The article is devoted to assessment of the contrailer technology efficiency regarding the transport services consu-mers. By means of the ma-thematical analysis method a set of minimum essential conditions of competitiveness of contrailer transportation comparing to automobile one is defined. Proceeding from the results obtained, the conclusion is drawn that contrailer transportations can compete with automobile ones only on condition of decreasing tariff loading and providing the state support. The organization scheme of contrailer transportations in Russia is outlined invol-ving establishment of a mana-gement company regulating and coordinating the of the transportation participants’ actions. The way of contrailer technology implementation involving the operating struc-tural divisions of RZD and its subsidiaries is offered. The conclusion is drawn that introduction of mass con-trailer transportation in Rus-sia would allow to overcome the competitive relations of motor and railway transport, having established their suc-cessful cooperation and also to solve a number of related problems, such as decrease of highways load, reduction the road accidents, improvement of the ecological situation in the country.