The technology of organizing the movement of freight trains according to energy-optimal schedules was further developed within the framework of train traffic management in the direction. A significant result of 2014 was the implementation of end-to-end planning of the train schedule and the virtually complete elimination of quasi-junctions between roads in the directions from Inskaya station to Chelyabinsk-Main and Yekaterinburg-Sortirovochny stations. Currently, more than 1.8 thousand locomotives are equipped with devices for informing the driver about the current energy-optimal train schedule, there is an automatic garter for trains of locomotives and locomotive crews. The use of this technology only at the specified landfill gave an annual energy savings of more than 120 million kWh and ensured the departure of freight trains according to the schedule at the level of 75%, the passage – at the level of 35%.
One of the key areas of implementation of the company’s scientific and technical policy is the introduction of innovations in the infrastructure complex, where the share of expenses for transportation activities is about 35% of the total. The priority here is to reduce the cost of the life cycle of objects, provided that the safety of the transportation process and a high level of reliability of technical means are ensured. A number of innovative solutions in infrastructure maintenance are presented at.
Exactly one hundred years ago, the world’s first track measuring car designed by Nikolai Emelyanovich Dolgov went on its first flight. And now Russian engineers are not giving up their positions in this high-tech segment. Thus, the diagnostic complexes “Era” and “Integral” are superior to foreign analogues “Archimedes” (Italy), IRIS 320 (France) both in terms of the number of controlled parameters and the degree of automation of management and information processing processes. A new stage in the development of mobile diagnostic tools was the first complex for monitoring the infrastructure of the Baikal-Amur mainline, created on the basis of the 2TE116 diesel locomotive. It replaces several cars of infrastructure diagnostics and, most importantly, during the inspection affects the track with an axial load of up to 23.5.