Development of measures to reduce the downtime of a local car at a railway station

The article considers the importance of railway transport in the organization of cargo delivery. Currently, participants in foreign economic activity: exporters, importers, logisticians and freight forwarders – more and more often prefer to use the railway as the main mode of transport. It provides a fairly fast, predictable and much cheaper service compared to air and motor transport. It has been established that the average speed of container trains on Russian railways is over 1000 km per day. The transit time of the cargo in the West – East direction is on average 7.6 days, which is 0.4 days ahead of the indicator set by the Comprehensive Plan for Modernization and Expansion of the Trunk Infrastructure. At the moment, the net travel time for the delivery of goods by air is several times less than for the delivery by rail. Nevertheless, a lot of time is spent on ground operations, including waiting for the board. The capacity of the train allows one flight to deliver the amount of cargo that requires up to six flights by plane, which ultimately increases the difference in the cost of transportation up to 30 times and inevitably affects the final cost of the goods. This explains the high demand for rail transportation with a large delivery shoulder, especially in communication with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. When organizing railway transportation, the delivery time of the goods also includes operations performed at the railway station. In order to reduce the time spent by wagons at the railway station and. thus, to improve the service for customers, the work considers the operations performed at the railway station K. The technology of operation with minimum, maximum and prospective volumes of processing of local cars is studied in detail. Unproductive downtime of wagons in anticipation of the necessary operations through the construction of daily schedules has been revealed. With the help of the Ishikawa diagram, the main directions for improving the activities of the railway station in the field of reducing unproductive downtime are determined. The main measures necessary to reduce the time spent by a local car at the station by means of a lean manufacturing tool – optimization funnel are considered. A daily schedule has been drawn up taking into account the proposed activities. The indicators of idle time of the local car are determined. Economic calculations have been carried out according to the existing technology of the organization of operational activities and the proposed one.

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