Abstract:
The article is devoted to comparison of the existing and improved method of calculating the idle time of cars at technical stations.
The positive and negative sides of that method are considered. In the analysis result, the main factors influencing the finding time
of the cars at the technical station were revealed: the level of technical equipment, organizational structure, technology and
organization of operations at the station, the volumes of train and shunting operations, the degree of unevenness of the arrival of
train cars and trains. Currently on the Latvian Railway, the idle time of train cars under technological and cargo operations are
actually determined from the moment of arrival at the station before moment of the departure from it. Thus, the existing method
of calculating the idle time of train cars at technical stations does not foresee the prediction of this indicator and an assessment of
the impact of innovations of a technical, technological and organizational nature. The article suggests the main directions of
improving of the method for calculating the idle time of train cars by allowing us to take into full consideration the technical
equipment, the technology of operations and the unevenness of the arrival of train cars to the technical station.
