Plyetnykova I. Estimation of the Economic Security Level and ensuring of the Economic Security of Railway

Object of research. Economic relations system of the railway. Aim of research. Theoretical grounding of quantitative expression of the Economic Security Level of a Railway and of other enterprises of the material production sphere and working out methods of ensuring Economic Security of an enterprise. Methods of research and equipment. System approach, specification, formalization, economic and mathematical, PC-based techniques. Theoretical and practical results. Methods of estimation of the Economic Security Level of a Railway; principles of estimation of the limits of the enterprise'sEconomic Security Level; scheme of an enterprise of Economic Security process; the structure and functions of the economic security service of a Railway. Novelty of the results. The methods of estimation of the Economic Security Level of a Railway and principles of estimation of the limits of the enterprise's Economic Security Level (ideal, high, acceptable security zones, risk and threat of catastrophe zones) are worke d out for the first time. The rest of results (scheme of an enterprise Ecоnomic Security process; the structure and functions of the economic security service of a Railway) are partially new. Extent of introduction. Introduced at Iuzhnaya Railway, science-production association ''Prommontazhelectronika'', at Kharkov State Academy of Railway Transport. Sphere of application. Railways, enterprises of thetransport industry and other enterprises of the material production sphere.