Organization for Cooperation of Railways

(OSJD)

Транспортная политика и стратегия развития

Specialist of OSJD Commission on Transport Policy and Development Strategy

Aian Mamytov 15-16 March 2017, New Delhi

Development of OSJD railway transport policy

Implementation of the principles of railway transport reforming and model choosing have

their own specifics in each country depending on social and economic environment as well

as concrete conditions for railway transport operation, in particular the transportation

structure.

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Development of OSJD railway transport policy

Development of OSJD railway transport policy

1. A universal aspect of the reforms is the separation of operational and commercial functions from

social and political functions that shall be implemented by the government.

2. Common to most reforms is the distribution of management and financial accounting by mode of

transportation.

3. The separation of functions concerning the infrastructure management and transportation process

is more complex. There are three approaches: integrated system,

infrastructure manager is carrier, separation of functions. Each approach is applicable under specific

circumstances.

4. Promising within the framework of reforms is the development of vertically integrated

multifunctional railway corporate structures in the form of efficient holdings.

5. The withdrawal of non-core activities from railway enterprises produces positive results by

creating enterprises for which this type of activity is the main one.

6. In the main types of activity, the introduction of competition in the once monopoly sector produces

positive economic results by creating a powerful incentive for reducing costs and improving the

quality of services.

Development of OSJD railway transport policy

The OSJD Committee in association with

OSJD member-countries and the Moscow State

University of Railway Engineering (MIIT) -

the main university within the Association of

Transport Universities (affiliated enterprise of

OSJD) have published a collection of articles

and materials “Directions for strategic

development of railway transport in OSJD

member-countries”. The publishing of this

collection of articles was coincided with the

60th anniversary of OSJD and 120th anniversary

of the Moscow State University of Railway

Engineering (MIIT).

The international rail transport requires more active implementation and use of advanced control technologies

(scanners and others). It is also necessary to facilitate the creation of a single information space for the transport systems of

OSJD member countries, including customs and border structures, by combining telecommunication networks Companies of

these countries with the purpose of allocation along the international transport corridors of the necessary information and

telecommunication resources for speeding up the passage through the borders and reducing and optimizing the time for

conducting control procedures.

Development of measures on facilitation of border crossing procedures in international traffic between Europe and Asia

Development of measures on facilitation of border crossing procedures in international traffic between Europe and Asia

The main reasons affecting the delays of passenger trains:

- technical and technological reasons;

- non-compliance by passengers with the requirements related to border crossing procedures;

- lack of effective interaction of carriers with regulatory authorities in the implementation of control

procedures on peak days, taking into account the increase in passenger traffic.

The main reasons affecting the delays of freight wagons (uncoupling):

- failure to comply with customs and other legislation of the country of import of goods by business

entities;

- technical malfunction of wagons;

- business failures:

due to the fault of the consignor;

due to the fault of the carrier;

- non-acceptance in connection with excess of daily requirement of receiving wagons by the contiguous

side;

- disadvantages related to the organization of train traffic and the development of infrastructure;

- forwarding reasons (lack of forwarder's code or its wrong indication, lack or insufficient amount of

money on the account, etc.)

- poor quality registration of transport and shipping documents or lack of such documents.

Development of measures on facilitation of border crossing procedures in international traffic between Europe and Asia

Recommendations:

- To ensure the interaction of carrier with regulatory authorities in order to fully inform the passengers

about the border crossing procedures;

- The parties of the transportation process shall draw attention to irregular supply of trains and,

accordingly, agreed volumes of goods to the border (transfer) stations. In order to avoid the

accumulation of wagons, countries are invited to consider the possibility of increasing the daily rate

of reception of wagons, while ensuring the agreed delivery of trains taking into account the carrying

capacity border (transfer) stations;

- To consider, if necessary, the improving of bilateral agreements between the participants of the

transport process in order to synchronize joint actions when moving goods and vehicles through

border (transfer) stations;

- To draw attention of owners of wagons and participants of the transportation process to the need to

take measures that would guarantee reliable and safe operation of the rolling stock and safety of

goods in international traffic;

- To carry out necessary events (seminars, workshops, etc.) to ensure smooth transportation of goods in

order to reduce delays of freight cars due to improper processing of documents at border (transfer)

stations in the OSJD member countries;

- To carry out coordinated activities on developing the border infrastructure and railway tracks

connected to it in order to increase the carrying capacity.

Development of measures on facilitation of border crossing procedures in international traffic between Europe and Asia

THE UNITED NATIONS

THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC

COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE HARMONIZATION

OF FRONTIER CONTROLS OF GOODS

Done at Geneva on 21 October 1982

ANNEX 9

FACILITATION OF BORDERS CROSSING PROCEDURES

FOR INTERNATIONAL RAIL TRANSPORTATION

Took effect on 30 November 2011

The UN Secretary General, acting as depository, published on 1 September 2011 the depository notification

C.N.534.2011.TREATIES-1, in which he informs on coming into force from 30 November 2011 of the new Annex 9 to the

Convention on Harmonization, related to the border crossing by rail.

Equipment of the station Kiana

Static and dynamic electronic rail scales;

Veterinary and

phytosanitary posts;

Radiation and X-ray

inspection devices;

Automated system of

commercial inspection,

etc.

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Informal group under the auspices of UNECE

Within the framework of the 79th

session of the UNECE ITC (Geneva,

February 21-24, 2017), the issue of drafting a

new Convention on the facilitation of the

railway transportation of passengers and

baggage across the border was considered

and the decision was made to support the

continuation of work on the draft of the new

Convention and its finalization. Therefore,

the Roadmap for the preparation of the draft

Convention was agreed upon.

The informal working group prepared

the concept of a new Convention, which was

presented to all countries for consideration

and after receiving comments and

suggestions a draft new Convention was

prepared, submitted to all countries and

considered at the 145th session of WP.30.

Draft

THE UNITED NATIONS

THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC

COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

CONVENTION

to Facilitate the Crossing of Frontiers

for Passengers, Luggage and Load-luggage

carried by Rail

Statistics in railway transport

A temporary working group (WG) and a meeting of experts are dealing within the

OSJD Commission on Transport Policy and Development Strategy with statistics

in railway transport.

The main direction of work of the WG and meetings of experts is the principle of

creating a uniform symbolism for railway performance indices as well as

methodology for identifying the basic indices published in the OSJD Bulletin.

Statistics of railway transport

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Эстония

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Грузия

Монголия

Латвия

Литва

Азербайджан

Вьетнам

Словакия

Туркменистан

Болгария

Узбекистан

КНДР

Беларусь

Иран

Венгрия

Чехия

Румыния

Казахстан

Польша

Украина

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1859.6

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OPERATIONAL LENGTH OF OSJD RAILWAYS AS OF 2015

Dynamics of Change of Railway Net Operational Length and

Length of Electrified Lines

106.703

110.931 111.528

112.666

118.161

121.01

122.753

124.496 125.419

126.298

128,389

276.746

280.428 280.572

279.281

279.836

280.542 279.987

280.742 280.809 281.216

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электрофицированные линии железнодорожная сеть

Railway length – 282 244 km

Total length of electrified lines amounts to – 128 389 km

DYNAMICS OF CHANGE OF FREIGHT

TRAFFIC VOLUMES

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Freight traffic volume - 4 864 million tons

DYNAMICS OF CHANGE OF PASSENGER

TRAFFIC VOLUMES

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Passenger traffic volume - 3 574 million passengers

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It runs on the territory of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania,

Estonia, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, Mongolia

and DPRK. Its length with branches is 24 790 km including trans.

OSJD Corridor No.1 (Trans Siberian Line)

Indicators of work on sections of the OSJD transport corridors

No. 1 for 2015

Country Length of

section, km

Cargo turnover

(Operational ton-

kilometers netto in

thousands

Traffic t-

kmthousands

per 1 km

Belarus 856 16 365 942 19 119

Kazakhstan 1 754 22 615 070 12 893

China 3 717 139 871 897 37 630

Latvia 1 017 16 349 548 16 076

Lithuania 316 715 276 2 264

Poland* 682 7 304 793 10 711

Russia 15 181 1 078 538 811 71 045

Uzbekistan 23 240 406 10 452

Estonia 133 560 794 4 217

Total in corridor 23 679 1 282 562 537 54 165

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Others - incl:

2015

Facilitation of border crossing procedures in international railway traffic in the Euro-Asian area

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