THE ORDER IN THE TRAFFIC

Abstract

The review on the book: Zabirov, H. Sh., Shapkin, I. N. Logistics of Railway Freightage (Actual State, Theory, Practices, Outlook). Moscow, VINITI of Russian academy of sciences editions. 343 pp. (2012).

The contents of the book widely cover the issues of engineering of logistics methods of management of freight and passenger traffic. The ideas of the authors are illustrated and proved with the help of many concrete cases concerning practices of stations and local railway networks, of e-documents circulation, freightage with firm schedule fragments, promising techniques of logistic centers. There is an important focus on the intelligent transport systems concept and its implementation in logistics. The monograph will be useful to a wide spectrum of railway experts, will help to solve the tasks of optimization and management of rail traffic. And it will certainly be a good piece of knowledge for the students of transport universities, colleges and high schools.