Vadim Shmal – Efficient technologies in railway transport (страница 6)

Working in the new evaluation system, all business blocks and business units, fulfilling their specific indicators, are primarily obliged to ensure access to the general parameters of development and efficiency improvement. This is what interaction and coordination in the holding should be based on.

The task of consolidating car fleets remains relevant. In recent years, many technological and management solutions have been worked out in practice. This allowed us to form an understanding that the solution of this problem is possible through the implementation of a rental scheme that will concentrate the management of parks in one hand.

It is obvious that the Federal Cargo Company, as the largest operator with all the resources and competencies, should become a platform for the consolidation of parks. But in order to start this process, we need proactive decisions from the regulatory authorities. This is the liberalization of the carriage component or the establishment of a rational tariff corridor. In the absence of these tools, a work model that is effective in relation to technology will be non-market and uncompetitive.

So far, we cannot be satisfied with the level of development of landfill technologies. It is obvious that it is impossible to manage the transportation process within the boundaries of large polygons in manual mode. We need not just an automated, but a control system. In this regard, I would like to once again draw attention to the need to develop such an obviously complex project of a unified intelligent control system and automation of production processes in railway transport.

Such projects include the development of passenger traffic in the Moscow transport hub. It is based on services that are really in demand and provides for comprehensive financing from JSC “Russian Railways”, the federal budget and the funds of the city of Moscow. This is a large complex project, the experience of which can be used in the development of large agglomerations on the railway network.

Even more difficult are the tasks of achieving parameters that depend on the coherence of the actions of three or more business blocks of the holding. In order to ensure a break-even level in accordance with the financial plan approved by the government, it is necessary to reach the target figures for revenue. In this regard, although revenues are generated directly in the transport, logistics and passenger business blocks, the contribution of the infrastructure component, including its locomotive part, is largely decisive. At the same time, it is extremely important to ensure that the planned indicators are achieved by subsidiaries, interaction with which should also be carried out based on the priorities of joint development of business blocks.

There are still a lot of problems in the infrastructure complex, and first of all in the economy of the way. In this regard, it is necessary to analyze the management system in detail once again, identify its critical points, strengthen coordination and control over the processes of repair and maintenance of infrastructure in the regions.

Of course, a huge role in the issues of security and effective management in the new conditions belongs to the social block of the holding. The improvement of the system of recruitment and placement of personnel, the development of corporate training of managers and specialists in accordance with the requirements of the time should be continued.

According to these and other indicators of long-term development, the Board of Directors will evaluate the activities of the Russian Railways holding and make decisions on the implementation of its development strategy.

The formation of a full-fledged system of indicators linking customer orientation with the end-to-end processes of business units, responsibility for their execution will allow achieving a significant increase in the efficiency of the company’s activities, improving the quality of transport services and making a significant step in solving the strategic tasks set for Russian Railways.

1.4 Innovative activity development in the management of the Russian Railways Holding

The key indicators of the company’s innovation activity are such indicators as labor productivity growth, the volume and efficiency of innovative technical means implemented, energy efficiency of the transportation process, the number of security documents received for the results of intellectual activity.

In the conditions of a difficult economic situation, the company is forced to reduce the amount of funding for the work provided for by the scientific and technical development plan. At the same time, the share of funds from the business community and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research attracted for research and development work increases annually.

In accordance with the import substitution program, together with the Italian company ESM S.P.A., a multi-station microprocessor centralization system with integrated auto-locking is being created. For the first time, a project with open source software and a computer-aided design system is being implemented according to Russian regulatory safety requirements. It is envisaged to use low-maintenance floor equipment of domestic production, i.e. the system will have a high level of adaptability. The cost of its life cycle will be 20% less compared to the currently supplied microprocessor centralization systems.

The technology of organizing the movement of freight trains according to energy-optimal schedules was further developed within the framework of train traffic management in the direction. A significant result of 2014 was the implementation of end-to-end planning of the train schedule and the virtually complete elimination of quasi-junctions between roads in the directions from Inskaya station to Chelyabinsk-Main and Yekaterinburg-Sortirovochny stations. Currently, more than 1.8 thousand locomotives are equipped with devices for informing the driver about the current energy-optimal train schedule, there is an automatic garter for trains of locomotives and locomotive crews. The use of this technology only at the specified landfill gave an annual energy savings of more than 120 million kWh and ensured the departure of freight trains according to the schedule at the level of 75%, the passage – at the level of 35%.

One of the key areas of implementation of the company’s scientific and technical policy is the introduction of innovations in the infrastructure complex, where the share of expenses for transportation activities is about 35% of the total. The priority here is to reduce the cost of the life cycle of objects, provided that the safety of the transportation process and a high level of reliability of technical means are ensured. A number of innovative solutions in infrastructure maintenance are presented at.

Exactly one hundred years ago, the world’s first track measuring car designed by Nikolai Emelyanovich Dolgov went on its first flight. And now Russian engineers are not giving up their positions in this high-tech segment. Thus, the diagnostic complexes “Era” and “Integral” are superior to foreign analogues “Archimedes” (Italy), IRIS 320 (France) both in terms of the number of controlled parameters and the degree of automation of management and information processing processes. A new stage in the development of mobile diagnostic tools was the first complex for monitoring the infrastructure of the Baikal-Amur mainline, created on the basis of the 2TE116 diesel locomotive. It replaces several cars of infrastructure diagnostics and, most importantly, during the inspection affects the track with an axial load of up to 23.5.

Analysis of the prospects for the development of diagnostic tools has shown the need to equip the infrastructure of high-speed electric trains “Sapsan” with diagnostic complexes. Russian specialists are creating an innovative on-board diagnostic system that evaluates the infrastructure of the St. Petersburg – Moscow line according to 76 parameters. The beginning of fundamentally new technologies of the XXI century has been laid, radically changing the structure of technical diagnostic tools and repeatedly increasing the efficiency and reliability of the information received.

Another example of the capabilities of the Russian design school is the implementation of a new approach to solving the problem of optimizing the interaction of rolling stock and track. The introduction of an asynchronous traction drive made it possible to reduce both unsprung masses and the impact on the path by 50%. The next step is to switch to software methods. Thus, the use of a new version of the traction converter software developed by specialists for 2ES10 and 2ES7 electric locomotives has significantly improved a number of indicators and reduced the impact of the locomotive on the path in small radius curves by a third.

For the first time on the road network, experimental operation of wagons with an axial load of 27 tc began to determine their impact on the track and artificial structures. The tests carried out on the Kovdor – Murmansk section of the Oktyabrskaya Railway will be completed in August 2015. But it can already be stated with confidence that very interesting results have been obtained, which are extremely important both for the current maintenance of the track and for the design of new-generation railcars.