Building perspective cargo traffic in the North-East of Russia
A.A. Kugayevsky
Keywords: the North-East of Russia, cargo traffic, assessment, import, export, cargo-generating units, transport-logistic centers, Baikal-Amur Mainline, Amur-Yakutsk Mainline, Trans-Siberian Railway
Pages: 144-160
Abstract
The paper analyzes what development perspectives for productive forces of the North-East regions would make the deliveries of material resources and goods to these regions higher. The completion of the Amur-Yakutsk Mainline, as well as the projects on construction of a railway towards Magadan and development of a year-round highway network would completely transform a product distribution network connecting with the North-East regions. We present our assessment of feasibility of redistribution of the intra-regional cargo traffic, a pattern of the transport-logistic centers network and zones of their impact. We prove that import-export of material resources and goods can become more efficient should the cargo traffic if redistributed from the river transport to the Baikal-Amur Mainline, railway transport of Yakutia and Trans-Siberian Railway. The growing cargo traffic from the North-East regions will require the reconstruction of these strategic mainlines.
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