Sokolov M. Yu.

The paper analyses the work of Russian Federation’s transport industry, and covers the major activities of the Transport Ministry in 2012. The most important aspects of development of water-borne, air, rail and motor transport, as well as road facilities are looked at. Results of realization of the first part of the Integrated programme for ensuring the public safety on the transport are evaluated, and tasks that state bodies and participants in the transport services market will have to solve in the short term are set.

Keywords: Transport Ministry of the Russian Federation, air transport, waterborne transport, rail transport, motor transport, road facilities, public safety.

Contacts: info@mintrans.ru

Ivanov Yu. M., Romanenko A. A., Lebedev G. V.

The paper discusses the tasks that Russian Federation’s sea ports have to solve by 2030 in order to successfully compete with ports in the former Soviet republics, and provides a brief overview of establishment of the system of port and transport services, and the influence of Russian economy after the break-up of the USSR on its forming and development.

Keywords: sea port, cargo traffic, cargo turnover, terminal, container, port and transport services.

Contacts: moffice@cniimf.ru

Reznikov L. M.

The paper looks at the progress of fulfilling the strategy for social and economic development of Siberia through to 2020, in particular at the process of creation of the Northern Transport Corridor. The paper points out ways of increasing Tomsk Oblast’s transport and transit potential as a basis for accelerating development of natural resources of the Northern development belt, and evaluates the project’s economic efficiency.

Keywords: Northern transport corridor, Northern development belt, Tomsk Oblast.

Contacts: Ishutina@tomsk.gov.ru

Shapoval D. V.

The paper points out the importance of a bridge crossing over the Ob River in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra in ensuring the traffic-carrying capacity of the North - South and West - East transport corridors, and proposes a project for building an additional bridge crossing for large and heavy cargo vehicles.

Keywords: transport corridor, traffic stream, bridge crossing.

Contacts: KravchenkoSV@admhmao.ru

Parsegov S. G., Solodovnikova V. V.

The paper compares the parameters of development of underground rail (metro) systems in London and in Moscow under similar conditions, analyses the unsuccessful private-public partnership set up in London between 2002 and 2007, and uses documents to figure out the causes of its failure. Recommendations for the private-public partnership projects undertaken by the Moscow Metro are provided.

Keywords: private-public partnership, metro, investment commitments.

Contacts: research@pokrovka-finance.com

Shnyrev A. G.

The paper discusses interrelation between the system of rules regulating the activities of general aviation and development of Russian Federation’s aviation industry, and proposes a project of a set of aviation rules aimed at improving legislative regulation of general aviation.

Keywords: general aviation, certification, aircraft airworthiness, federal aviation rules.

Contacts: info@mintrans.ru

Kuklev Ye. A., Zung F. V.

The paper proposes an interpretation of an airport system’s aviation security system as a type of non-stochastic converter of information flows which include data on passenger flows, and a number of characteristics and indicators that are required to conduct the procedures of preventing acts of unlawful interference (AUI) in the airport operation.

Keywords: automate model, aviation security system, act of unlawful interference.

Contacts: ekuklev@mail.ru

Shesterneva N. N., Zhebliyenok M. A.

The paper is dedicated to some aspects of evaluating St Petersburg’s transfer hubs as regards searching for quantitative and qualitative parameters which allow for complex analysis of the level of their safety and comfort for pedestrians.

Keywords: safety of urban territories, pedestrian traffic, safety index, transfer hubs.

Contacts: shesternevann@gmail.com

Timchenko V. S.

The article proposes a method for assessing the railway capacity for the perspective railway lines development that is connected with prolonged breaks for train movement. The method is based on the planning algorithmization of locations, numbers and durations of the breaks, and is used as part of simulation modelling of the railway transportation process.

Keywords: planning for train movement in prolonged breaks, simulation modelling, railway capacity.

Contacts: tim4enko.via4eslav@mail.ru

Zung F. V.

The paper proposes to use some experimental results obtained in the Vietnam’s civil aviation air transportation system to check the truth of the hypothesis of “high reliability” of avation systems which is accepted in the ICAO (Annex-19) risk estimation methodology for flight safety evaluation.

Keywords: aircraft reliability, risk identification, Airbus, FO SMS, flight operation safety management system.

Contacts: ekuklev@mail.ru

Koturanov V. A.

The paper sets out the results of justifying calculations for possible ways of modernizing shock-absorbing units of two existing types of goods vans, aimed at increasing the units’ energy efficiency without significant alteration to their design.

Keywords: shock-absorbing unit, energy intensity, power characteristic, spring force, friction force, unit stopping force, unit motion.

Contacts: w.koturanov@gmail.com

Ovsyannikov O. A.

The paper points out possibilities offered to Russia’s air transportation companies by consolidation of efforts of all actors of the air transportation activity, in particular, in simplifying excessive formalities in passenger trasportation on the basis of standards and recommended practice of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

Keywords: air transportation, standards and recommended practice of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), simplifying formalities.

Contacts: inter_airports@mail.ru

Nikoda K. V.

The paper analyses current Russian dynamic of container port turnover and rail transportation capacities for containers. The outlook for container traffic (ports and railways) through to 2017 is based upon a variety of factors, including economy growth, foreign trade development, plans for increasing terminals’ capacity, etc.

Keywords: containerization, export, import, GDP per capita, TEU, maritime trade, freight turnover, ports, container terminals, stevedore company, Baltic Sea.

Contacts: Kirill.Nikoda@gazprombank.ru

Cherkin E. A.

The paper looks at reasons for uncompetitiveness of Russia’s producing operations which lie in the sphere of supply chain organization, and provides recommendations for optimizing the suppliers network and logistics within Russia on the basis of domestic experience and study of the best international practice.

Keywords: supply management, optimization, competitiveness.

Contacts: eduard.cherkin@rolandberger.com

Vokhmyanina A. V.

The paper looks at maintaining reliability of links in the logistical supply chains from the point of view of probabilistic approach, analyses major risks which occur in logistical processes, including failures in batching-up supplies on the supplier’s end, failures by carriers in the transportation and failures caused by insufficient quality of supplied products, and sets out formulae for calculation of probability which allow to create optimal standby reserve of turnover capacity of a supply chain link.

Keywords: reliability of logistics supply chain, inventory shortage in supply chain link, probability of deficit occurrence, supplier reliability, carrier reliability, quality and safety of products.

Contacts: AVohmyanina@mail.ru

Timofeyeva Ye. Yu.

The paper looks at the issues of evaluation of influence of new customs technologies on forming goods and information flows and on efficiency of operation of business structures involved in transporting goods across the customs border, compares options for organizing transportation of foreign cargo using traditional technology of conducting customs operations and remote transfer technology, and analyses factors for speeding up customs operations and methods to evaluate their efficiency.

Keywords: legislation, information systems, unification, organization, customs bodies, introduction, technologies, customs technologies, information technologies, customs operations, efficiency, declaring, remote transfer, routing goods flows, logistics, transportation, trade, speed, time expenditure, structure of financial expenditure.

Contacts: EYTimofeeva@yandex.ru

Boronenko Yu. V.

The paper looks at issues of designing goods vans for heavy-weight rail traffic by means of increasing base width, axial and unit load, and decreasing dead weight. On the basis of comparative analysis, designing of new bogies, automatic couplers, brakes, and new ranges of steels and aluminium alloys for transport engineering is recommended.

Keywords: axial and unit load, railcar envelope, technical parameters, bogies, goods vans.

Contacts: boron49@yandex.ru

Pokusayev O. N., Tashbayev Y. E.

The paper points out the need of Russia’s education system in not just educational standards but also occupational ones, which consist of systematic description of requirements for the worker’s professional qualification, and describes the experience of development of the professional standard for a transport logistics specialist.

Keywords: educational standard, occupational standard, logistics.

Contacts: development@logistics.ru

Grigoryev N. N., Dvinin A. P., Zheleznyakov A. M., Nakonechny M. M.

The paper shows the important role of discipline in successful personnel operation in industries connected to high risk of accidents and dangerous emergencies, points out peculiarities and advantages of hiring staff based on psychophysiological criteria, and looks at specifics of problems with interpersonal relations between people in multinational vessel crews, and ways of solve them.

Keywords: discipline, accidence, international crews, disciplinary interviews.

Contacts: n.grigoriev-1948@mail.ru