Transportation of metal products on scheduled circular routes using private locomotives
For increasing the competitiveness of railway transport compared to road transport in transportation of pipe workpieces between enterprises of pipe rolling cycle, the measures to reduce the active car fleet were developed.There is a need to introduce a circular route traffic for the workpiece transportation on schedule and implement an exchange park of cars on the sidings to cars load with pipe workpieces for reducing the active fleet of cars. Advantages of using their own platforms for the pipe workpiece transportation were justified.The performance indicators of the investment project to purchase and use their own locomotive with different buying cost, net present value, profitability index and internal form of income were defined.The project profitability under condition of reforming the relevant normative legal and tariff base in Ukraine was determined