APPLIED METHODS AND RESULTS OF COMPUTATION OF ELASTICITY OF DEMAND RELATIVE TO TRANSPORTATION QUALITY
[For the summary of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English text is after Russian version)]. ABSTRACT Market demand for carriage depends on a variety of factors which can be divided into two groups: controlled factors (freight tariff, quality of transportation service) and uncontrolled factors (emergencies, accidents, fluctuations of market conditions).The objective of the present article is to assess the impact of quality on demand for transportation. The system of quality indices establishes balance of interests of operators and customers of transport services. This balance permits operators to raise quality of their services in advance, and allows customers to protect their rights on the basis of the rules established by contracts and standards. But in order to determine the impact of a single factor it is necessary to eliminate other factors, which are relevant and admissible for forecasting. KEY WORDS: railways, economics, freight traffic, demand, quality, variation, deseasonalization, approximation. REFERENCES 1. Vasnev, S. A. Statistics. Manual. [Statistika: Ucheb. Posobie]. Moscow, MGUP, 2001, 170 p. 2. Ilovayskiy N. D., Kiselev A. N. Service at railways [Servis na transporte (zheleznodorozhnom)]. University textbook. Moscow, Marshrut publ., 2003, 585 p. 3. Sokolov Yu.I. Economics of quality of transport services to cargo owners [Ekonomika kachestva transportnogo obsluzhivaniya gruzovladel’tsev: Monografiya]. Moscow, Uchebno-metodicheskiy tsentr po obrazovaniyu na zheleznodorozhnom transporte, 2011, 184 p. 4. Sokolov Yu.I. Methodological features of quality management of transport services to cargo owners [Metodologicheskie osobennosti upravleniya kachestvom transportnogo obsluzhivaniya gruzovladel’tsev]. Ekonomika zheleznyh dorog, 2008, № 7, pp. 24-33. 5. Sokolov Yu. I. Methodology of quality management of transport services to cargo owners under the conditions of competition development in the market of rail carriage [Metodologiya upravleniya kachestvom transportnogo obsluzhivaniya gruzovladel’tsev v usloviyah razvitiya konkurentsi i na rynke zheleznodorozhnyh perevozok]. Thesis of D. Sc. (Econ) candidate. Moscow, 2007, 314 p. 6. Study in the sphere of assessment by clients of service quality in the market of rail freightage [Issledovanie v sfere otsenki potrebitelyami kachestva uslug na rynke gruzoperevozok zheleznodorozhnym transportom]. Moscow, Gudok publ., 2012, 25 p. 7. HELPSTAT: http://www.helpstat.ru (Last accessed 20.12.2013). 8. Cleverstudents. http://www.cleverstudents.ru/ mnk.html#beginning (Last accessed 20.12.2013).