Optimization of Empty Wagon Flows in the Formation of the Technical Work Plan for the Railway Network

Abstract

At present, the Russian railway network is experiencing a shortage of throughput capacity. At the same time, for a number of reasons, the direction of empty cars for loading is not always performed optimally, which leads to the presence of empty runs of cars of the same type and additional loading of limiting railway infrastructure facilities. In order to improve the rationality of empty wagon direction, it is proposed to calculate the optimal empty wagon directions at the stage of calculation of technical standards of operational work with their subsequent use in operational management and creation of economic incentives for their implementation.