Development of operator services market for rail transport: problems and prospects

Course acceptance on demonopolization of the market of freight traffic at the railway has led to possible occurrence of various private companies-carriers and formation of the competitive market environment, allowing raising the level of availability of the infrastructure of the railways for various companies. The negative tendency of growth of transportation by private companies became a motivation for creation of the affiliated companies, which would render high-quality services in cargoes transportation by rail. Deficiency of the rolling stock of the inventory fleet has served as a stimulus for development of the companies-operators and increase of demand for their services. Considerable reduction of number of cars, increase in the age of the rolling stock, its bad technical condition - all this has led to decrease in the share of the market of transportation of the Ministry of Railways. The private companies-operators invested means in expansion of their own stocks, thereby providing themselves a survival in the market and gradually increasing the share in the total amount of freight traffic. To increase the competitiveness of the company the degree of quality of the rendered services should correspond to expectations of consumers on the basic characteristics, such as transportation time, speed of delivery, tariff size, safety of cargo and others. No real operating mechanism of interaction of the company "Russian Railway" with operators of the rolling stock on effective regulation of working fleet demands working out of a model of interaction between the railways, consignors and operators with participation of the coordinating structure representing interests of the participants of the market. Thus, the primary goals of such coordination body should be forecasting, formation and estimation of scenarios of development of the market of transport services; granting of consulting services

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