Criteria for assessing the development level of railway terminal and logistics facilities

   Determining the optimal parameters of the development level of terminal logistics facilities in the context of the logistics chains restructuring and the development of cargo traffic new directions is becoming an important task for building an effective terminal logistics system in the region. The subject of the study is the criteria for assessing the development level of railway terminal and logistics facilities, the object of the study is the terminal and logistics infrastructure of public use. The following criteria are used as criteria for assessing the development level of terminal logistics facilities: – list of services provided; – track development; – equipment with lifting and transport vehicles; – paragraphs on which the cargo yard is open; – capacity of cargo storage facilities. The analysis of the current network of terminal logistics facilities has shown the dependence level of the terminal logistics facility and its performance indicators, which can be formulated as follows: with an increase in the level of the terminal logistics facility, the arithmetic mean values of the indicators according to the criteria increase. There is no clear line of separation between the development level of terminal and logistics facilities according to any of the criteria.
   The authors propose criteria reflecting the possibility of realizing the potential of terminal logistics facilities. These include: processing capacity, the actual volume of processed cargo for the previous period, and cargo flow at the station adjacent to the terminal logistics facility. After evaluating the potential realization of the terminal logistics facility, the result of which is the determination of the operating conditions of the terminal logistics facility: optimal; lack of processing capacity. Due to the insufficiency of the existing cargo flow, the feasibility of optimizing the infrastructure of the terminal and logistics facility is calculated based on the economic indicators acquired and spent on optimization.
   In the structure of terminal logistics facilities, the operating parameters of which in a number of conditions do not meet the needs, and it is difficult to change them, it is proposed to include a terminal damper, which is an infrastructure for temporarily organizing work on it with cargo traffic transferred from the existing terminal logistics infrastructure.

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