The existing technology of working with railway rolling stock belonging to various operators should improve the safety of the transportation process. This is one of the priority issues of the operation of the railway transport complex and is aimed at improving the safety of the goods transported, reducing the cost of repairing losses associated with loss or damage to cargo, reducing the non-productive costs of eliminating various types of traffic safety violations. At the same time, the majority of “new” operators providing services do not set out to ensure the safety of the transportation process. The main condition for them is to get the maximum amount of income and profit. These reasons have led to significant changes in the pattern of relations between cargo owners, carrier, rolling stock operator companies and require the speedy automation of most production cycles in order to ensure full control of the situation on the smooth organization of the transportation process. The article assesses the safety of the railway transport complex and constructs a mathematical model of the impact of specific indicators of the violation types on the overall safety level. The described system of mathematical predictive regression-type models can be used in the future to predict the level of security in the selected areas of activity. The factors that have the most significant impact on the safety of technical means by using the developed program complex of failure forecasting have been identified. The proposed program will enable structural managers to make reasoned decisions to improve the safety of the transportation process in both freight and passenger transport.

In order to remain competitive in the world market, to maximize the needs for transportation with increasing volumes of work, to ensure the availability and quality of services provided on railway transport in the field of organizing the transportation process, it is necessary to use modern digital approaches. The article provides an assessment of the existing technology for organizing the driving of connected trains using the example of the operation of the Mariinsk - Krasnoyarsk-Vostochny section of the Krasnoyarsk railway. With the development of technology for driving connected trains, it has become possible to connect trains by means of a virtual coupling, which does not imply physical coupling of trains using an automatic coupling device, while the trains are in a constant, equidistant, position from each other. To analyze the efficiency of organizing the driving of double trains in the "Virtual Coupling" mode, the authors of the article built train schedules with an interval for double trains of four minutes, and in the future with an interval of two minutes. The calculation of the main indicators of the train schedule and the line capacity has been made. The calculation revealed that with the introduction of the technology of interval regulation according to the "Virtual Coupling" system, the required throughput of the railway line increases by 19.05% relative to the existing traffic schedule with the use of double trains. The use of trains with "Virtual Coupling" on the Mariinsk - Krasnoyarsk-Vostochny section is preferable, since their use reduces losses in the traction network, power consumption and other parameters of the traction network, and the voltage at the locomotive current collectors is significantly higher than when using connected trains. The economic effect from the use of this technology for organizing the work of the Mariinsk-Krasnoyarsk Vostochny section will amount to 894.14 thousand rubles per year.

The main tasks of the railway industry are focused on reducing the costs associated with the operation and repair of technological equipment. It is possible to solve them by the development of technical means that optimally take into account the natural and climatic, geographical and technical operating conditions. In these operating conditions, the development of locomotive traction involves the modernization of the existing fleet of traction rolling stock, improvement of the locomotives produced, the development of a paradigm-shifting platform of lines of innovative locomotives, the replacement of equipment by more reliable and modern one, and the automation of processes. Automation makes it easier to control the locomotive, reduce the risk of errors and ensure the most rational equipment operation modes. It was found that the damage to the electric parts of the electric motors accounted for more than 70 percent of the total number of faults. The purpose of this article is to develop a technical solution, the use of which will minimize the number of failures of auxiliary machines and locomotive equipment of this series. To implement this, it considers the main design features of electric motors, their connection diagram and the presence of protection elements to determine the trouble spots and justify the proposed technical solution.

The article considers the main directions of improving the traffic safety management system in railway transport in the context of the transition to a higher level of reliability. The transition of the railway industry from information control systems to fully control systems can be ensured by combining automated information systems that are integrated on the road network into production processes. Within the framework of the project to ensure the safety of the transportation process, it is advisable to provide for the implementation of work on equipping the infrastructure of JSC Russian Railways with modern innovative technical means - automated systems for inspecting trains and wagons using laser scanners. The work of the complex to identify and prevent situations that threaten the safety of traffic along the route is considered, the introduction of which will ensure the transition to unmanned technologies when organizing the control of goods and rolling stock at loading stations and along the route. The use of the resource mobile workstation of a cargo and baggage pick-up unit at a railway station will speed up the process of accepting wagons for transportation, reduce the time for processing transportation documents, improve the quality of the railway station, significantly optimize the work process of a cargo and baggage pick-up unit, increase labor productivity, eliminate the influence of the human factor in carrying out this type of work. The technical and economic result of using this complex at the railway stations of Russian Railways is the provision of an increased level of safety on the railways.

The basic reasons for insufficient reduction of a number of safety violations in a railway transport network are systemic and are related to the current condition of the technical and technological base of transport complexes. Aging, poor conditions of fixed assets and errors in the maintenance of the transport system are in most cases the main causes of accidents and casualties. The basis for the automation of most technological railway processes is the redistribution of material, energy and information flows in accordance with the accepted criterion of optimality. According to the analysis of the statistics, this article reveals a problem that has a direct impact on the safety of train service and shunting operations in the railway transport system - that is, the number of railcars that has been damaged on public and non-public approach lines. The dependence of the number of damaged freight cars on the speed of their collision the splitting-up of the railcars on the gravity-sorting yard of the network railway stations has been determined. Automation of the technological sorting process in a single production cycle will provide the basis for the introduction of production management systems and railway management systems as a whole, while improving the safety of the transportation process itself and the production of shunting operations. In the conditions of high-speed traffic development and the introduction of innovative technologies, these requirements need to be tightened, including the widespread use of automated processes for the splitting-up of freight trains on the gravity sorting yards. Improving the operation of the freight classification yards is a major factor in accelerating and cheapening the transportation process. In recent years much attention has been paid to the automation of station operation processes, the use of advanced labor methods, the introduction of new equipment, without which the development of the station cannot ensure the efficiency of the industry as a whole. In order to eliminate these shortcomings, it is proposed to automate the process of splitting-up freight trains on the gravity-sorting yard. For this purpose, it is necessary to equip the gravity sorting yards of railway stations with a comprehensive system of the sorting process control automation.