Palamarchuk I. Contract transportations as a factor of increasing the competitiveness of railways.

Object - freight railway transportation price setting under the conditions of market transformation of the economy of Ukraine. Goal - to ground the ways of increasing the competitiveness of railways by means of contract freight railway transportations introduction. Methods - general scientific and specific; of comparative, system, statistic analyses; economic mathematical. Novelty- it is for the first time when the notion of contract freight railway transportation was formulated in contrast to the existing diverse characteristics and perspective kinds of contract railway transportations for railway transport of Ukraine have been scientifically grounded, tariffs for contract freight railway transportations taking into account their application according to the condition of the economic environment have been developed and offered. Results - the indices of cost price determination of contract freight railway transportations at the expense of train weight for the purpose of positioning application enhancement at the market of freight transportations have been improved; the method of cost price determination of freight railway transportations concerning the accounting the specific character of contract transportations have been improved that significantly supplements the possibility of more detailed scientific researches of the problem; methodical approaches to the freight railway transportations pricing on the base of grounded new kind of transportations have got further development that will contribute to the increasing of competitiveness of railways; the concept of the revision of railway transportations branch at the expense of contract transportations introduction have got further development that conditions the attraction of the branch in rendering of services. Introdiced - at the railway transport enterprises. Branch - railway transport.