Problems of providing international railway transport

Mykola Kurhan,Dmytro Kurhan,G Vatulia,A Plugin,O Darenskyi

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201823001007

Abstract

Due to its geographic location and developed transport infrastructure, Ukraine has a significant potential in the development of cargo transportation, primarily in international traffic, in particular as a transistor country in the logistics chain of trade between Asia and Europe. The possibilities of railway transport for the organization of transportation between the countries of the European Union and Ukraine are not used to the full extent, since there is a number of technical reasons of the transport systems incompatibility between Ukraine and European countries. In the course of the research, methods of analysis and synthesis were used to study prospects of the European and domestic system of international railway transportations, the experience of creating, operating and optimizing these systems. To compare the above mentioned options, the authors developed a model for predicting and assessing the efficiency of railway transport from the border of one state to the border of the other one.

Highlights

Due to its geographic location and developed transport infrastructure, Ukraine has a significant potential in the development of cargo transportation, primarily in international traffic, in particular as a transistor country in the logistics chain of trade between Asia and Europe
The possibilities of railway transport for the organization of transportation between the countries of the European Union and Ukraine are not used to the full extent, since there is a number of technical reasons of the transport systems incompatibility between Ukraine and European countries, namely: different wheel gauge, characteristics of rolling stock, type of SSB, voltage in the contact network, dimensions, etc
Due to the intensive development of the integration processes of the Ukraine's railway transport into the European transport system, the following issues are of great importance: the functioning of the international transport corridors (ITC), the introduction of specialized rolling stock, which would allow operation both on the gauges of 1435 mm, and on 1520 mm ones, that is, application of European ASCS-technologies, based on 1520/1435 mm automatic gauge change systems [8]

Summary

Introduction

Due to its geographic location and developed transport infrastructure, Ukraine has a significant potential in the development of cargo transportation, primarily in international traffic, in particular as a transistor country in the logistics chain of trade between Asia and Europe. Five international transport corridors pass through Ukraine; the expanded length of these routes is about 6.500 ths km, of which 3.500 are railways. Future prospects for the integration of Ukraine's railways into the European transport network will depend on how successfully the tasks on the actual development of international transport corridors (ITC) will be solved [2, 3], on the availability of rolling stock ready to provide transport with governed speeds [4, 5], on political-economic and technical-technological problems of passenger turnover [6] and truck turn-around between Ukraine and Europe

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