Improvement of freight management technology

Abstract

Transport connects regions, countries, continents, plays an important role in the world economy, contributing to the development of countries as a whole and their entry into the world market. The degree of development of the transport infrastructure affects the economic, political, social and environmental spheres of a country's life. Ukraine's transport system connects European and Eastern countries, as it is located at the intersection of international transport corridors and has a developed transport network. Railway transport of Ukraine provides more than 80% of freight carried out by all modes of transport. This determines the urgency of the tasks for improving transportation systems, introduction of new and improvement of existing freight technologies, which will contribute to the globalization of the country's economy. Under such conditions, it is advisable to widely introduce into practice the technologies that have developed in some countries, namely: multimodal, intermodal, combined freight.