The suburban passenger rail transport sector plays a significant role in the country’s economy, ensuring the freedom of movement of citizens, contributing to the increase of transport accessibility of certain areas and the functioning of advanced development zones. Improving suburban services in the largest agglomerations is identified as the most important task in the development Strategy of the “Russian Railways” holding for the period up to 2030. Increasing speeds on the main routes will attract significant passenger traffic and improve the economic and social condition of the regions. All these reasons, in addition to the significant sustainability challenges that this priority sector is currently facing in all aspects, justify the interest in research through strategic analysis based on the traditional Porter’s Five Force model. The application of this model will allow getting a general strategic vision that will provide a deeper knowledge of the object under study, which will serve as the basis for the subsequent development of a strategy for the development of suburban passenger transport by rail. The purpose of the paper is to assess the level of intra-industry competition in the regional market of suburban passenger transport in order to develop a strategy for the development of suburban passenger transport by rail.

The purpose of this study is to characterize the state of financial literacy of students of transport universities on the basis of analysis of the results of empirical data of social research. In the framework of applied research, a significant amount of experience in assessing financial literacy has been gained, but in the academic science, the research of this kind is not enough to form a generally accepted concept and a detailed theory. Because of the resulting contradiction, the authors had to search for new approaches to conducting the study of financial literacy and interpreting the results. The system, in particular - the structural and functional approach and the sociocultural approach were chosen as the main ones. These approaches are widely used for study of similar phenomena and already proved themselves in science. As a result of the comparative analysis of the all-Russian level of knowledge and skills in the field of financial literacy and the level of students in the economic and non-economic fields of study in transport universities, the hypothesis was proved that students of non-economic fields of study have a lower level of financial literacy compared to students in economic fields of study and all-Russian level. Therefore, it is required to develop programs of various content and complexity to increase the level of financial literacy for these groups.

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