IN RAIN, HEAT AND COLD THE TRAFFIC SCHEDULE IS NEEDED
[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].REVIEV OF THE BOOK: Levin, D. Yu. Organization of car flows on railways: Monograph. Moscow, Training and Methodological Center for Education in Railway Transport, 2017, 443 p. ABSTRACT Fundamental work describes the history, current state and prospects for development of organization of car flows, which is regulated by a plan for formation of trains. The tasks of calculating the formation plan of various categories are formulated in great detail. Various modes of the process of accumulation of trains are considered. Market conditions require new criteria, this fact is reflected in the settlement standards. The theory of calculating the formation plan has passed a long way of development, but modern conditions require new methods for calculating the formation plan. At various stages of development of railways, the attitude to the routing of cargo transportation changed. In the conditions of cars’ privatization the criteria of routing efficiency have changed. The market conditions left also their mark on various features of organization of empty car flows. The increase in the share of group trains is hampered by the shortage of marshalling tracks. The proposal of the author to introduce the centralized traffic control of organization of car flows is of great interest. Keywords: organization of car flows, empty car flows, centralized traffic control, car-hours, plan of formation, sender routing, group trains.