Effectiveness Assessment Of Multimodal Transportation In Russian Transport And Logistics Market

The article considers the transport industry, which is of great economic and social importance for country. role determines specifics market transformations, as well spatial accessibility territories, quality, standard living mobility population, movement goods services, country's activity in foreign markets. A new trend development services international multimodal container transportation. Increasing efficiency transportation possible today due to optimization system interaction between modes used direct goods, cost reduction, operation cargo terminals, formation a network corridors, use satellite navigation capabilities, reduction environmental load fuel economy. Reviewing Russian studies field transportation, authors considered existing approaches term highlighted features compared various process, investigated methods improving criteria their evaluation.