Large Railway Research Articles

RmRailProtector 4.0 – the innovative Rail-Mil components based family for the ERTMS/ETCS L1 functionality

The article presents a family of innovative products rmRailProtector 4.0, which are a comprehensive solution for the ERTMS / ETCS functionality on L1 level. The presented system was developed in Poland using Polish technical thought and the potential and many years of experience of Rail-Mil in the design, production, implementation and operation of train traffic control systems. The rmRailProtector 4.0 system thanks to cooperation with the experts of KOMBUD S.A. Automation Group as a comprehensive solution, it is adapted to work with the MOR-3 – multi-computer interlocking system used to control of railway traffic. The first planned implementations of rmRailProtector 4.0 systems assume a configuration consisting of MOR-3 interlocking system and rmRailProtector 4.0 system with ERTMS / ETCS level L1 functionality. rmRailProtector 4.0 covers devices, including: Eurobalises in the fixed and programmable version, an innovative fiber interface in the LEU-Eurobalise relation, standard and centralized LEU encoders as well as programming and diagnostic tools, according to the CCS TSI requirements (Technical Specifications for Interoperability, Control-Command and Signaling). The article synthetically summarizes the basic functional, formal and legal aspects of the proposed solutions, with reference to the requirements for the interoperability of the rail system. An innovative approach to the design of the ERTMS / ETCS L1 system was presented in detail, including the wide application of fiber optics in the connection of Eurobalise with LEU and the innovative supply of Eurobalise using optical interface. The article intentionally omits the presentation of centralized LEU, including innovative LEU with an optical interface, which will be presented in subsequent publications. The approach presented above is a new quality in the area of extensive network design at large railway stations. The innovation of the presented solutions found expression in the complex to Patent Office of the Republic of Poland with the patent application identification number: P.430674. Keywords: Eurobalise; ERTMS/ETCS; fiber-optic interface

Demographic and geographical characteristics of pediatric patients presenting to a convenient clinic at a large railway station in a metropolitan area of Tokyo.

There is an increasing demand for medical provision systems that are friendly for working mothers with sick children in Japan. The aim of this cross-sectional, observational study was to analyze the demographic characteristics of pediatric patients presenting to a convenient care clinic, which was located in a large railway station and offered primary care with after-hours accessibility in a metropolitan area of Tokyo.We analyzed anonymous data for patients who had visited the pediatric department at a clinic between August 2013 and June 2016. Data regarding patients’ sex, age, time of visit, waiting time, presence or absence of an appointment, diagnosis, and addresses were collected from electronic health and billing records.Overall, 8091 patients visited the department 45,388 times. The numbers of visits by patients who resided within 2, 5, and 10 miles of the clinic were 37,160 (84.6%), 42,336 (96.4%), and 43,399 (98.8%), respectively. No seasonal variation in the number of visits was observed. Male patients visited the clinic 23,742 times (52.3%) and the patients’ median age was 3 years (interquartile range, 1–6). Most visits occurred on Mondays, and 5643 (15.2%) and 4790 (12.9%) patients visited the clinic when consultations began at 10 am and 3 pm, respectively. Approximately 20% of weekday visits occurred after 6 pm, when other pediatricians’ offices were typically closed. Children older than 7 years of age visited the clinic more frequently after 6 pm. The overall median waiting time was 650 seconds (interquartile range, 429–1020). The 3 most common diagnoses were upper respiratory tract infection (27,173), asthmatic bronchitis (23,744), and allergic rhinitis (10,556). The number of individuals who were referred to other medical institutions was 284 (0.6%).The majority of patients were children aged 1 to 4 years living near the clinic and 80% of visits were during the daytime. However, children older than 7 years of age visited the clinic more frequently after 6 pm. The convenience of the clinic contributed to the fulfillment of the medical needs of children with mild illnesses whose mothers were in full-time employment.

A verticalização das operações logísticas de um grupo do setor sucroenergético

Fazer ou comprar é uma decisão importante para os executivos na hora de compor a estratégia de crescimento de uma organização. Os limites horizontais e verticais são fatores fundamentais a serem considerados. O objetivo principal deste estudo é compreender a verticalização no agronegócio, com foco nas operações logísticas de escoamento da produção de açúcar, enfatizando o processo de fusão entre uma empresa logística pertencente a um grupo sucroenergético, com a maior companhia ferroviária em extensão de malha no país. Para tanto, utilizou-se da metodologia de pesquisa caracterizada como exploratória, qualitativa e estudo de caso. Essa pesquisa possibilitou concluir que a Cosan aplicou a estratégia de verticalização fundada na Visão Baseada em Recursos; a fusão, entre e a Rumo e a ALL, gerou a maior empresa de operações logística do Brasil; o processo de fusão repercutiu não somente no setor sucroenergético, mas também no setor de grãos; a Cosan vem realizando investimentos de melhoria da infraestrutura com o intuito de ampliar a malha ferroviária e solucionar os gargalos, tendo como consequência a elevação da eficiência e redução dos custos operacionais, que resultaram, na comparação com 2016, no crescimento do EBITDA em 36%; aumento de 28% no volume total transportado; melhora de 4% no indicador do custo variável ferroviário unitário; e ganho de 9% no indicador do consumo de Diesel.

An Optimal Management Model for Empty Freight Railcars in Transport Nodes

The paper presents the actual problem of increasing the efficiency of empty railcars management in rail nodes. This problem lies in considering the set of constraints. The main constraint is the requirement of railcars ‘owners on their loading by certain freights and sending to certain customers. This problem is complicated with the complexity of the traffic volumes structure that making them uneven. Hence, it creates an uneven loading factor of railway stations in the node. Moreover, railway stations are required to comply with the schedule of loading and unloading of railcars, as well as the schedule of trains and features of their formation in the rail nodes at large industrial enterprises. In order to optimally manage empty railcars at rail nodes, both the mathematical model and its solving method are presented. One of the distinctive features of the developed model lies in the application of a fuzzy logic method to evaluate online the loading factor of railway stations in the rail node. Moreover, this model takes into account these evaluations by optimizing the distribution of empty railcars at the loading points. The present study puts forward the method and algorithm of the developed mathematical model for empty railcars management. They could additionally take into account the possibility to include empty railcars groups in the composition of trains moving on schedule within large railway nodes or in systems of railway transport at large industrial enterprises. The proposed model significantly reduces the complexity of operational planning of dispatchers for distributing the empty railcar traffic volumes. Furthermore, the developed model minimizes the total handling time of railcars in rail nodes and ensures the timely supply of empty railcars to the loading points.

Passenger- and operator-oriented scheduling of large railway projects

The continued development and renewal of railway infrastructure and technology is necessary to enable railway operators to provide high quality services subject to ever increasing demand. However, the execution of large infrastructure projects causes disturbances in the network due to the occupation of infrastructure over extended periods of time. In this paper we propose a multiobjective project scheduling optimization model for railway infrastructure projects that takes inconvenience caused to users of the infrastructure into account. We illustrate how the model can be used in an interactive way by planners based on their preferences, and we show that Pareto optimal solutions can be found in reasonable time using instances with realistic features. The result is a decision support model to aid infrastructure project planners in ensuring that passenger and operator inconvenience are also taken into account.

Intermodal transportation of full and empty containers in harbor-inland regions based on revenue management

IntroductionThe transport of full containers and repositioning of empty containers are essential for the operation of a container logistic enterprise. In a large inland region, railway and road transportation take their own advantages for container transportation in terms of transport efficiency and costs. The combination of the two modes creates larger possibility for logistic enterprise to provide efficient service and reduce operation costs. Thus, this paper aims to optimize the inland intermodal transportation of full and empty containers.MethodsDifferent from cost minimum model, an integer programming model is proposed based on revenue management, making the model more reasonable in practice where logistic enterprises have the right to reject transportation demands from customers considering transport profits and capacity limitations. The real cases of transportation networks of Northeast China and parts of the southern Europe are applied to evaluate and describe the model and performance.ResultsThe results indicate that the proposed intermodal transportation optimization for both full and empty containers is feasible and profitable for logistic enterprises. The efficiency of container usage increases since we take the conversion of containers during transportation into account. Results also imply an inappropriate pricing strategy at certain inland depots in the case.ConclusionsThis paper provides an optimization method for the intermodal transportation of full and empty containers in harbor-inland regions / hinterlands. Different from cost minimization in the literature, this paper models the transportation problem based on revenue management. That is, the model aims to maximize profits of logistic enterprise with the specific constraints in container transportation, as well as demand rejection. The model is proofed to be feasible in the real transportation networks and can create more profits for transportation enterprises. The analysis of real cases show that the total profits can be enlarged by considering the conversion of containers during transportation. In addition, it is verified that the optimization of inland transportation of empty and full containers reduces the operating costs of logistic enterprises. Moreover, results uncover the fact that a governed pricing policy at Suifenhe is not reasonable and may deteriorate the future export environment there. For the case based on part of southern Europe, it seems that the port, customer, inland transport operator and possibly container shipping company in Europe may benefit by establishing appropriate inland depots.

Stochastic Schedule–Based Optimization Model for Track Allocations in Large Railway Stations

AbstractThis paper develops a track allocation model for large railway stations based on stochastic schedules, which considers balanced utilization as well as minimum occupation time of station tra...

Development of High-Speed Rail in the People's Republic of China

High-speed rail (HSR) construction is continuing at a rapid pace in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to improve rail’s competitiveness in the passenger market and facilitate inter-city accessibility. To take advantage of spillover effects, bring economic cohesion at the local level, and recover the local matching investment in infrastructure, all cities have planned new towns around HSR stations. Speeding up HSR construction has required the development of many standardized technologies and processes. Plans for HSR stations usually situate them in suburbs, far from city centers, to reduce the cost of property right of way relating to the removal of housing or industry as well as to lower the complexities in negotiations. However, city centers remain the main starting and destination terminals for most HSR passengers, especially businessmen who use HSR frequently. Besides, large railway stations in suburbs, providing a comfortable waiting space for passengers, have prolongate the travel time for HSR users. A reliable and high-quality public transit service, connecting an HSR station and the city center at the launch of HSR operations, is essential to curb the increase in car/taxi use. Studies have also suggested that, instead of building one big HSR station in the suburb of a metropolis, constructing multiple stations in the vicinity of city centers will greatly reduce the access/egress time, thereby enhancing travel efficiency.

A New Algebraic Approach to Decision Making in a Railway Interlocking System Based on Preprocess

The safety of railway networks is a very important issue. Roughly speaking, it can be split into safety along lines and safety of railway facilities such as stations, junctions, yards, etc. In modern networks the safety along lines is controlled by automatic block systems that do not give clearance to trains to enter a section (block) until the latter is detected to be unoccupied. Meanwhile, the safety within railway facilities is supervised by railway interlocking systems. Decision making in a railway interlocking is a very important issue which is considered to be very labour-intensive. Decision-making in both automatic block systems and railway interlocking systems, unlike road traffic light systems, is not based on time (they are not scheduling problems) but in space. Basically, two different trains should never be allowed to access the same section (whatever time has passed). There are many different approaches to automate decision-making in railway interlocking systems. The classic approaches are offline: only certain routes are allowed and their compatibility is decided in advance. Meanwhile, modern approaches make decisions in real time and are independent from the topology of the railway network, but can be applied only to small or medium size railway networks. Nevertheless, these last approaches have the following drawbacks: the performances are very dependent on the number of trains in the railway network; and are unsuitable to large networks since they take long time to be run. On the other hand, algebraic approaches based on computer algebra concepts have been used in artificial intelligence for implementing expert systems. In this paper we present a completely new algebraic model, based on these concepts of computer algebra that overcomes these drawbacks: the performance of our approach is independent of the number of trains in the railway network and also is suitable for large railway networks.

Trains do not vanish: the ROADEF/EURO challenge 2014

The ROADEF/EURO challenge is a contest jointly organized by the French Operational Research and Decision Aid society (ROADEF) and the European Operational Research society (EURO). The contest has appeared on a regular basis since 1999 and always concerns an applied optimization problem proposed by an industrial partner. The 2014 edition of the ROADEF/EURO challenge was led by the Innovation & Research department of SNCF, a global leader in passenger and freight transport services, and infrastructure manager of the French railway network. The objective of the challenge was to find the best way to store and move trains on large railway sites, between their arrivals and departures. Since trains never vanish and traffic continues to increase, in recent years some stations have been having real congestion issues. Train management in large railway sites is of high interest for SNCF, which is why it was submitted to the operations research community as the industrial problem for the 2014 edition of the ROADEF/EURO challenge. This paper introduces the special section of the Annals of Operations Research volume devoted to the ROADEF/EURO challenge 2014, as well as the methods of the finalist teams and their results.

Passenger Transportation in Indian Railways : Facilities & Challenges

Indian Railway (IR) is the third largest railway network in the world with 7349 railway stations, 1,44,698 railway bridges, 11461 locomotives, 70937 passenger coaches, 2,77,987 freight cars and 67368 route kilometers. Today IR operatives 22550 trains each day, comprising 13329 passenger train and 9221 freight trains. It transports 3.04 million tones of freight traffic and 23 million passengers every day and 7.2 billion passengers per year. Railways an integral part of the transport network, play a crucial role in facilitating trade. The performance of this sector not only affects the global competitiveness of merchandise trade but also the performance of other service sectors such as tourism. Indian Railways has suffered from chronic and significant under investment as a result of which the network expansion and modernization have not happened at the requisite place leading to an erosion of the share in national freight and passenger traffic. It is management failure which failed to raise voice before the leadership/Govt. to the issue well in advance when Indian Railways major routes were becoming bottle neck for main movement rather major cause for slowing speed of trains due to abnormal delay enroot detention further increasing costs due to increased wagon turn round.

THERMAL TREATMENT OF SOLID WASTE GENERATED BY RAILWAY TRANSPORT

Purpose. The solid waste management system in Ukraine consists from the land disposal of waste. In this case, there is no control over environmental pollution, which in turn leads to environmental risks. A considerable amount of solid waste is formed at the railway transport enterprises. The solution of the problem of the elimination of wastes generated at large railway stations and in the process of servicing trains, namely directly at the place of their formation, is considered in this work. Methodology. The authors propose to use mobile waste processing plants, which eliminate the negative impact of the process of accumulation of solid industrial and municipal waste on the human habitat; while they can serve a certain number of waste producers. The study was conducted on a waste processing plant (WPP-300) located in Kharkiv on the Southern Railway. Findings. The design and purpose of the main units of waste processing plant are described. The bottom ash after incineration of solid waste accounts for 5-10 % of the initial volume of waste and corresponds to the safe IVth class of the waste classification catalog. Multi-stage thermal catalytic cleaning of waste gases provides concentration of harmful substances, including dioxin group within the limits of permissible norms. For complete combustion of all components of the waste, the temperature in the furnace was 850-900 ºC, the presence of flue gases in the afterburner at 1100-1200 ºC for at least two seconds, the defined excess air 1.4. Originality. The authors for the first time conducted a study of the parameters of incineration of various elemental wastes. We calculated the total theoretical volume of combustion products on a mobile waste-processing complex. Practical value. The use of a mobile incineration plant allows solving the problem of solid domestic waste disposal. As shown by the practice of its operation, such measures are justified and are not only economically viable, but also environmentally friendly. The results of the work allow estimating the amount of waste gases at various morphological compositions of the waste of the railway transport.

Patients' demographics of a convenient clinic located in a large railway station in metropolitan Tokyo area.

Hidden barriers to visit a medical facility especially for young busy workers have been neglected in the aging society. The aim of this cross-sectional study is to analyze demographics of patients who had visited the first known convenient clinic located inside a railway station, which is adjusted to the lifestyle of working generations.We analyzed de-identified data of patients who had visited the department of internal medicine of a clinic, which is located inside a railway station building and offers primary care with after-hours accessibility in Tokyo, between August 2013 and June 2016. Data were collected on patients’ sex, age, time of visit, waiting time, presence or absence of an appointment, diagnosis, and patients’ addresses using the electronic health and billing records.Overall, 28,001 patients visited 87,126 times. Number of visits increased in winter season compared with the other seasons. Sixty-one percent were women and the median age of all patients was 38 years (range, 0–102). The number of visits on Mondays was the highest in a week and the most frequent visiting time was between 6 and 7 p.m. The number of visits of working generations (from 15 to 65 years old) and men increased after 6 p.m. and on weekends. The 3 most common diagnoses were upper respiratory tract infection (22,457), allergic rhinitis (20,916), and hypertension (4869). The number of individuals who were referred to other medical institutions was 1022 (1.2%). The median waiting time was 748 seconds (range, 2–5344). The number of visits from within 2-, 5-, and 10-mile radius from our clinic was 41,696 (50.6%), 63,190 (76.7%), and 75,015 (91.1%), respectively, and patients’ addresses were mainly located along the railway network.The locational and temporal convenience of our clinic has attracted the unmet medical demands especially for young workers who have difficulty in visiting conventional medical institutions.

Quantifying live bending moments in rail using train-mounted vertical track deflection measurements and track modulus estimations

This paper presents a new methodology to quantify the vertical bending moments that generate in rail under the passage of train wheels. In this method, the rail-bending moments are quantified from track modulus estimated using train-mounted vertical track deflection (VTD) measurements. This provides a practical approach for quantifying the rail-bending moments along large railway networks. The method requires the mathematical correlations between VTD, track modulus and rail-bending moments. Hence, a detailed finite element model was developed to investigate and quantify the mathematical correlations between these parameters. Various track modulus distributions were simulated and the resultant VTD and rail-bending moments were calculated. The mathematical correlation between inputted track modulus, and modelled VTD and rail-bending moments were then quantified using statistical approaches. From the results, track modulus average and standard deviation can be estimated over track windows using the VTD measurements. These estimations can be then employed to quantify the average and peak for the envelope of the maximum vertical bending moment in rail over the same track window. The accuracy of the method was verified using a numerical case study for which a random track modulus distribution was considered and artificial noise was added to the modelled VTD.

Modeling the 0-1 Knapsack Problem in Cargo Flow Adjustment

China’s railway network is one of the largest railway networks in the world. By the end of 2016, the total length of railway in operation reached 124,000 km and the annual freight volume exceeded 3.3 billion tons. However, the structure of network does not completely match transportation demand, i.e., there still exist a few bottlenecks in the network, which forces some freight flows to travel along non-shortest paths. At present, due to the expansion of the high-speed railway network, more passengers will travel by electric multiple unit (EMU) trains running on the high-speed railway. Therefore, fewer passenger trains will move along the regular medium-speed lines, resulting in more spare capacity for freight trains. In this context, some shipments flowing on non-shortest paths can shift to shorter paths. And consequently, a combinatorial optimization problem concerning which origin-destination (O-D) pairs should be adjusted to their shortest paths will arise. To solve it, mathematical models are developed to adjust freight flows between their shortest paths and non-shortest paths based on the 0-1 knapsack problem. We also carry out computational experiments using the commercial software Gurobi and a greedy algorithm (GA), respectively. The results indicate that the proposed models are feasible and effective.

Implementation & Application of PISCES

PISCES is a software package used to simulate an oil spill under given environmental and atmospheric conditions. PISCES has several practical uses in planning and preparedness for a variety of purposes. This research was focused on simulating and then assessing booming strategies for railroad/waterway nexus points, as designated by USCG Sector Delaware Bay and the Area Committee. A large railroad spill incident is of high concern and planning priority within the region. Crude shipments by rail have increased drastically since 2008, and several refineries and terminals lie along the Delaware River and its tributaries. Starting in 2014, the USCG Sector Delaware Bay partnered with various regional agencies to identify railroad/waterway nexus points. This assessment helped to identify over 30 railroad nexus points in extremely sensitive areas. Booming strategies were then identified for these points. PISCES was implemented to test and provide evidence to prove the thought processes behind the booming strategies. In order to test these strategies, additional research was done to simulate statistically significant, and climatologically accurate spills in both the summer and winter seasons. Summer and winter were chosen to accurately represent a variety of conditions, which has implications on how the oil may react in the environment. In addition to assessing booming strategies, the accuracy of the PISCES model itself was tested. Two specific incidents were modeled and evaluated: a January 2016 diesel spill along the Schuylkill River, and the Wild Cosmos Bunker C fuel oil - #6 spill in the Wilmington, DE area in March of 2015. Research concluded that the model does provide a strong basis for assessing booming strategies. Additionally, PISCES has future uses in planning and exercise for scenarios like railroad incidents, which still have little data known that would be practical in response and clean-up operations. Additional planning uses could be done on a multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional scale for not only environmental assessment and mitigation from potential spill impacts, but for exercise & strategic stockpiling as well.

Scheduling and Routing Algorithms for Rail Freight Transportation

The paper deals with scheduling and routing rail freight transportation. There are provided mathematical descriptions of constraints in the real rail transportation such as timetables of passenger trains, safety time buffers etc. We developed an algorithm which determines the fastest route of cargo train in a railway network. It is based on Dijkstra algorithm idea. We experimentally proved that determination of the fastest route in even large railway network, where movement of a large number of trains was planned, takes place in a time acceptable for decision makers.

An Electrical Energy Allotment Method for a Large Railway Network

SUMMARYRailway operators usually do not consider the limit of the electrical energy supply in Japan. Although technologies have been developed for energy efficiency, the limit on the available electrical energy is not considered. However, railway operators met the limit in summer 2011 after the earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku. In this study, we develop an electrical energy allotment method for a large railway network. The method optimizes train operations to provide better railway service when the energy supply is limited. We also develop a search method to find the optimal operation from very large combinations of operation factors. These optimization and search methods are evaluated using the Tohoku earthquake scenario.

Service Performance Evaluation in Large Railway Station in Indonesia

Abstract People need transportation for social and economic daily activities. Since road network usually experience traffic congestion, railroad is one of good alternatives. People will choose train as a public transportation if there is a good service performance. In accordance with domestic and international social and economic activities in Indonesia, national and international service standard is important. The aim of this study is to evaluate the service performance of large railway station in a large city in developing country. Bandung large railway station is carried out as a case study. Indonesian transportation minister regulation No. 48 year 2015 regarding people transport by train and Department for Transport Scotland, 2015 regarding design standards for accessible railway stations used as the standards. Results indicated that waiting room, boarding room, and prayer room fulfill the standards while restroom, lighting, and air-conditioner are unfulfilled. Furthermore, improvement, routine inspection, and maintenance have to be implemented consistently. Keywords : service performance, large railway station, large city, developing country Abstrak Manusia memerlukan transportasi dalam kegiatan sosial dan ekonomi sehari-hari. Jaringan jalan umumnya selalu mengalami kemacetan lalulintas, karenanya jalan rel adalah alternatif yang baik. Orang akan memilih kereta api sebagai moda transportasi publik jika terdapat pelayanan yang baik. Berkenaan dengan kegiatan sosial dan ekonomi yang bertaraf nasional dan internasional di Indonesia, maka pemenuhan terhadap standar pelayanan nasional dan internasional menjadi penting. Tujuan studi adalah mengevaluasi kinerja pelayanan stasiun besar kereta api di kota besar di negara berkembang. Stasiun besar kereta api Bandung digunakan sebagai studi kasus. Peraturan Menteri Perhubungan Republik Indonesia No. 48 Tahun 2015 tentang Standar Pelayanan Minimum Angkutan Orang dengan Kereta Api dan Standar Department for Transport Scotland, 2015 tentang Standar Desain untuk Stasiun Kereta Api yang mudah diakses digunakan sebagai pedoman. Ruang tunggu, ruang boarding , dan mushola memenuhi kedua standar. Toilet, penerangan, dan sistem pendingin ruangan tidak memenuhi kedua standar. Selanjutnya perbaikan, inspeksi rutin, dan pemeliharaan harus konsisten dilakukan. Kata-kata kunci : kinerja pelayanan, stasiun besar kereta api, kota besar, negara berkembang

Methodological Aspect of the Logistics Technologies Formation in Reforming Processes on the Railways

Reforming processes of a railway transport based on those positive tendencies, which were recently observed in the transport market. They are caused by competitive rising of all railways in CIS countries and Baltic States. Experience of the countries with developed economy shows us, that reforming processes should be lead with receiving possibility system-wide effect from the individual interconnected subsystems functioning (units of rail transport) like unified system.Systematic approach to the justification the process of reform and development of the railway sector provides the formation of a dynamic model of the individual transport units, consisting of a single organizational – technological structure. This enables the system to be generally aimed at achieving the objectives of its functioning. So, such structure can be considered a major transport system for which is characterized by new properties and characteristics and all separate rail divisions acquire the status of system elements.In order to improve the quality characteristics of the transport process and the efficiency of cargo service, solving management task and logistic system rationalization of the goods delivery can be carried out the basis of multi-criteria methods, taking into account conservation approach. General industry logistic system should consist of the railways, their units, some large railway stations in conjunction with the relevant subsystems cargo. In process of the logistic system centers formation appears a question of managing their organizational structure. In our opinion one of the main factors which must be taken into account in shaping the organizational structure of logistics centers is an opportunity to achieve a high service level with taking in account availability of internal and external constraints.Modern conditions needs to formalize the functioning of large dynamic rail system from the system approach position, which is directed on system-wide optimization (synergistic) effect and takes into account the complex of all participants interests in the transportation process. One of the main limits for this system is a providing of the resources cost reduction (rolling stock, amount of cargo on the route to the consumer, staff etc.) for an assimilation given traffic volumes.From the logistics view point customers needs main services connected with transportation, storage, loading and unloading, warehousing, order processing, inventory management, herewith, services are seen as interrelated and interactive. On the other hand, in this complex are especially important logistics service indicators (service quality, compliance is “just in time”, etc.). Herewith logistic system should take on additional functions, which are accompany transportation, such as packaging, labeling, sorting goods, transportation design, determining the optimal transportation options, control over the movement of goods in transit.To do this, you first need to ensure the absolute safety of cargo; offer the full range of transport services; simplification of goods carriage and tariff system; reducing the delivery time; creation of a powerful and modern information network; clear interaction organization with a motor companies or obtaining of own one for delivery ensuring.