Economic and mathematical models of development of the railway tourism

Abstract

The authors used a complex of mathematical models meant for the optimal investment of the processes of creation and use of the railway transport infrastructure. The specific features of these models are as follows: long-term period of realization of the infrastructure projects, many participants with special interests, which do not always coincide, a lot of factors of uncertainty connected with the choice of quantities of the calculation parameters, etc. The authors created economic-mathematical models of the discrete optimal planning of the railway tourism operations. This takes into account conditions of risks and cooperation, and allows to determine sets of effective routes which are most profitable ones, provided they meet the established demands. The latter includes routes which meet maximum criteria of the net costs under the conditions of the established system of demands for the activity of the tourism operators.

Railway tourism in providing the sustainable and smart population mobility

“…In the article [12], scientists substantiated that railway tourism is a tool for increasing the revenue of railways by increasing the volume of passenger transportation. In their opinion, railway tourism is a type of economic activity that is related to the provision of a whole range of tourist services for the transportation of tourists in modern comfortable trains with specialized carriages (hotels, restaurants, buffets, salons, etc.)…”