The Effectiveness Evaluation of International Railway Transportation in the Direction of “Ukraine – European Union”

Abstract

EN: The paper presents results of a study concerning the development of railway transit traffic in international transport. It identifies problematic issues at the border crossing in the direction of "Ukraine–European Union" and ways to eliminate them. During the research methods of analysis and synthesis were used to study statistical materials and the main provisions of scientific papers about the state and prospects for the development of European and domestic systems of inter-national railway transportation. In order to predict the volume of international transportation, the experience of creating, operating and optimizing systems including international transport corridors, rolling stock and border station technology at the rail gauge joint of different standards (1435/1520 mm) are taken into account.