Effektivnoe funktsionirovanie zheleznodorozhnogo transporta igraet isklyuchitel'nuyu rol' v sozdanii usloviy dlya modernizatsii, perekhoda na innovatsionnyy put' razvitiya i ustoychivogo rosta ekonomiki, sposobstvuet sozdaniyu usloviy dlya obespecheniya liderstva oblasti v ekonomicheskoy sisteme. Sostoyanie i kachestvo raboty zheleznodorozhnogo transporta zavisyat ne tol'ko ot perspektiv ego dal'neyshego sotsial'no - ekonomicheskogo razvitiya, a takzhe ot vozmozhnosti effektivno vypolnyat' vazhneyshie funktsii innovatsionnogo kharaktera, obespecheniya postoyannoy podderzhki i sozdaniya usloviy vypolneniya nauchnykh issledovaniy v napravlenii vsestoronnego sovershenstvovaniya vsekh tekhnologicheskikh i tekhnicheskikh transportnykh sostavlyayushchikh funktsionirovaniya otrasli. Sbornik posvyashchen analizu i poisku resheniya problem v sfere zheleznodorozhnogo i drugikh vidov transporta, nedavno voznikshikh i trebuyushchikh glubokikh nauchnykh issledovaniy s logisticheskikh pozitsiy. Izdanie prednaznacheno dlya shirokogo kruga spetsialistov, logistov i nauchnykh rabotnikov v oblasti ekspluatatsii zheleznodorozhnogo i drugikh vidov transporta.