maslova T. The Efficiency of International Road Freight Transportation on One-Time Requests

Maslova T. The Efficiency of International Road Freight Transportation on One-Time Requests. – Qualifying scientific work on the rights of the manuscript. The thesis for a PhD degree in Technical Sciences, speciality 05.22.01 – Transport Systems (275 – Transport Technologies (on Road Transport). – Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, 2020. The dissertation is devoted to the solution of the theoretical and practical problem of determining the profitability of directions and routes of international transportation on one-time requests. The method to divide the regions where transportation activity is held into transportation analysis zones, based on the distribution law of the distances of placing the vehicle to the loading point for reverse shipping from the cargo destination region, is developed. It allowed determining the distribution of the profit of motor transport enterprises per unit of turnaround time when performing one-time international cargo transportation. These regularities became the basis for developing a model to define the expediency of transportation performing. The model requires such initial data as the direction and the distance of transportation, the charge for freight transportation outwards Ukraine, as well as the actual prices for the consumables to provide transportation. The advantage of the model is that it allows carriers to obtain a quantitative and probabilistic estimate of the routes’ profitability depending on their direction outwards the country and to assess to some extent the risks during the transportation activity. Keywords: profit, transportation direction, reverse shipping, one-time request, international freight transportation, expediency defining model.