Reasons for reducing the routing of empty gondola wagons at the Eastern Railway Polygon and ways to eliminate them

Abstract

In the work, the authors analyzed the technology of cargo flow on the infrastructure complex of the Trans-Siberian railway, which showed that sorting complexes are the barrier places when moving goods to the seaports of the Far East. Most marshalling yards are not meeting the requirements of their planned indicators. Some of them have turned into a kind of storage complexes, resulting in transit wagons downtime increase, with the throughput and processing capacities of the Eastern Landfill of railways and seaports limited. The analysis of the established order of loaded wagons for unloading operations on the Far Eastern Railway is carried out. As a result, the most significant reasons for reducing the routing of empty gondola wagons at the Eastern Railway landfill were formed. The issue of interaction with the railway transport clientele is raised, recommendations for improving technological processes are presented. It is determined that in order to develop the optimal option for the operation of the Eastern Railway Landfill without capital investments in the development of the infrastructure complex by the scientific organizations of JSC «Russian Railways», it is necessary to make a comprehensive factor analysis of the actually implemented technology for the organization of unloading wagons on non-public tracks, to identify the causes of deficiencies on the part of JSC «Russian Railways» and users of transportation services and using mathematical modeling methods to develop proposals to eliminate shortcomings. It should also be borne in mind that one of the target areas for optimizing the work of railways in the world is the reliability of the entire transportation process, which primarily depends on the development of sorting complexes and their well-coordinated work. The construction of a new marshalling yard at the railway landfill, whose main task will be the processing of odd wagon traffic, according to the authors, is the strategic mission of JSC «Russian Railways», the implementation of which is possible on the basis of private partnership with the investment of funds from rolling stock operators, shippers and consignees.