Assessing the impact of the average weight of freight trains on their traffic volume along main railway lines
https://doi.org/10.46973/0201-727X_2025_4_81
Abstract
It was found that the traditional strategy of mastering growing traffic by increasing train weight is limited by the characteristics of freight flows and infrastructure. It was determined that the key factor in planning is not the maximum weight, but the correspondence between the weight standard, the structure of freight flows, and the length of station tracks. The need for a transition to integrated capacity management, combining situational increases in train weights with traffic intensification, schedule optimization, and other organizational and technological measures, is substantiated. Recommendations are proposed for the transition to a combined capacity management strategy for sections, combining weight standard optimization with increased traffic volumes, the implementation of intelligent control systems, and other organizational and technological measures. This will enable the flexible development of growing traffic volumes within existing infrastructure constraints.
About the Authors
A. V. Dmitrenko
Siberian Transport University (STU)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitrenko Alexey Vasilievich, Chair “Management of Operational Work”, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor
S. M. Nauruzbaev
Rostov State Transport University (RSTU)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nauruzbaev Sabir Mansurovich, Chair “Management of Operational Work”, Postgraduate Student
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Dmitrenko A.V., Nauruzbaev S.M. Assessing the impact of the average weight of freight trains on their traffic volume along main railway lines. Vestnik Rostovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta Putej Soobshcheniya. 2025;(4):81-89. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.46973/0201-727X_2025_4_81
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