The dissertation is dedicated to the solution of an important scientific and practical task of increasing the efficiency of the functioning of cargo customs complexes in the organization of international road freight transportation through the development, improvement and implementation of models, methods and software for the process of managing cargo transportation on transport networks in the event of an imbalance in the volume of deliveries and cargo orders.
The aim of the dissertation is to increase the efficiency of cargo transportation by road in the organization of international transportation by developing, improving and implementing models, methods and software for the process of organizing cargo transportation on transport networks in the event of an imbalance in the volume of cargo supply and orders for it. To achieve this goal, the paper identifies the following main research objectives
1. To carry out an analysis of the existing scientific approaches and existing models and methods of organising freight transport on transport networks in international traffic;
2. To improve the method of using a multi-stage transport task when transporting goods using cargo customs complexes in international traffic;
3. To conduct modelling of the processes of organising international freight transport on transport networks under conditions of unbalanced volumes of deliveries and freight orders;
4. To develop a system for analysing the customs terminal network in international road freight transport using the traction arm system;
5. To test the developed software for the management of cargo transportation in international traffic at road transport enterprises of AsMAP of Ukraine.
The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies, first of all, in the fact that, for the first time, the theoretical and methodological foundations of solving the scientific and technical problem of the effective organization of international freight transportation on transport networks in conditions of unbalanced supply volumes and cargo consumption using cargo customs complexes.
In the work, in the development of the specified direction, for the first time:
‒ an approach to using the system of traction arms in the organisation of international freight transport and in the organisation of the work of the VMC is proposed, which significantly improves the quality of management decisions by simplifying the formation of an optimal plan for the transport of goods and using all existing and improved methods of bringing unbalanced freight traffic to a balanced type and the throughput of the VMC by finding its optimal structure;
improved:
‒ a method of using a multi-stage transport task for the carriage of goods using freight customs complexes in international traffic, which allows optimising the carriage of goods in the presence of imbalances in the volume of deliveries and orders of goods, and also takes into account the peculiarity of a significant excess of the volume of cargo supply over the demand for it;
found further development:
‒ a decision-making support system for managing unbalanced freight traffic on the transport networks of Ukraine and Western Europe, which helps to obtain a more efficient freight plan.
The practical significance of the obtained results lies in the development of a system of analysis of the customs terminal mass service network in the performance of road freight transportation, as well as a software complex for solving a multi-stage transport problem in the transportation of goods with the use of cargo customs complexes in international traffic based on the technology of traction arms, which enable to significantly improve the quality of management decision-making for the transportation of goods on transport networks of various structures and dimensions.
Also, the results of the dissertation work were implemented in the production activities of ІЕ “CHSAD Ukraine" and in the educational activities of the NCC AsMAP of Ukraine in the form of a designed system of analysis of the customs terminal mass service network in the performance of road freight transportation, as well as a software complex for solving multi-stage of the transport task during the transportation of goods using cargo customs complexes in international traffic based on the technology of traction arms.
Key words: international freight transportation, freight customs complex, transportation network, mass service system, traction arm system, traffic flows, technological characteristics, delivery, transport and technological scheme, efficiency, routes.
