Company's history
Establishment of the Design Bureau for Feasibility Studies
The history of the institute dates back to the first half of the twentieth century. At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s the country launched industrialization. There was an urgent need to form a centralized structure capable of solving urgent tasks of substantiating construction of new railways and technical re-tooling of existing railway lines.
Within the structure of the All-Union Design and Survey Association Soyuztransproject at People's Commissariat for Lines of Communications the Sector of Feasibility Studies (54 employees) was created, which in 1938 was reorganized into the Department of Feasibility Studies (FS).
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In the pre-war years, 40 people were employed in the Department of Feasibility Studies.
From 1935 to 1940, by order of the People's Commissariat for Lines of Communications, the Department of Feasibility Studies of Soyuztransproject:
• developed comprehensive proposals to strengthen 25 crucial directions, including Ural-Center communications, the exit from the Kuzbass, Balashovo and other cargo-intensive directions;
• developed economic sections of the projects of Komsomolsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Chelyabinsk hubs and Nakhodka station;
• substantiated the schemes of siting of car and locomotive repair plants in the long term till 1942;
• resolved the issue of assigning steam locomotives to steam locomotive repair plants along the USSR railways with estimating the number and structure of the steam locomotive fleet.
It also prepared the economic sections of projects for building new lines, major hubs (Nizhny Tagil, Yaroslavl, Omsk, Michurinsk and many others), second tracks, and hub bypasses.
The Department developed a scheme of technical and operational characteristics of the USSR railways with the determination of carrying capacity. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, it resolves the issues related to the construction of BAM, harmonization of the length of receiving-and-departure tracks, siting and development of the plant's mechanical workshops with the estimation of the structure and number of rolling stock units.
On March 15, 1940, in accordance with order No 185/a of B.N. Arutyunov, Deputy People's Commissar for Lines of Communications of the USSR, the Design Bureau of Feasibility Studies in Railway Transport was established on the basis of the FS Department.
Vladimir Vasilyevich Solomin was appointed its first director.
Period of the Great Patriotic War
From the first days of the war, the Design Bureau began to operate in accordance with the state of war, adjusting its processes to the needs of the front. Many specialists were seconded to the People's Commissariat for Lines of Communications and to the railroads to ensure military transportations in the front-line areas.
The Design Bureau of FS was evacuated to the Urals. A small part of the specialists in late 1941 were evacuated to Kustanai, where they took part in the development of the construction project for the Sviyazhsk - Syzran - Saratov - Kamyshin - Stalingrad lateral line of communications along the Volga River and other facilities.
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Despite the most severe conditions, the scattering of specialists of the Design Bureau in different regions of the country at war, electrification went on. The economic parts of the electrification projects for the Chelyabinsk - Kropachevo, Chelyabinsk - Sverdlovsk and other lines were developed. During the war, Zlatoust-Chelyabinsk and Chusovskaya-Perm sections of the South Ural Railway, suburban sections in the Moscow and Kuibyshev hubs were switched to electric traction.
The FS Design Bureau made an invaluable contribution to military construction, electrification, and other activities on the network during the war period.
After the inflection point in the Great Patriotic War, the Bureau activities were mainly focused on feasibility studies for the restoration and development of the country's railways, including Stalingrad, Rostov, Minsk, Vitebsk, Orsha, Baranovichi and other railway hubs.
The postwar years. Reorganization into Transteiproject
In November 1945, Konstantin Fedorovich Puchkov was appointed the Head of the Bureau.
By the end of the war, only 17 of the 45 full-time specialists of the bureau remained, the rest were recalled to the People's Commissariat for Lines of Communications and to the railroads for operational work.
As a huge amount of work on the preparation of design documentation for the overhaul of railways was needed, it was necessary to gather and bring together the staff scattered around the country: employees responsible for performing feasibility studies and operators.
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On December 14, 1945, in accordance with the Order of I.D. Gotsiridze ,Deputy Commissar for Lines of Communications of the USSR, No. 870/CZ the Design Bureau of FS was reorganized into the Specialized Office for Feasibility Studies and Design on Railway Transport - Transteiproject. Since then, two departments, the network development department (20 people) and the economic department (40 people), had been functioning in Transteiproject.
During the two postwar years, further to the current and operational work on substantiating projects of the railway infrastructure recovery, such important documents as the "General scheme of railway construction in 1946-1960" and "Project of the development of the railway network of the Union of SSR with consideration of general prospects" were developed.
In 1948, the institute developed the "General Scheme for siting and development of marshalling stations", first ever in the railway industry of the USSR.
In 1949 Alexander Petrovich Volodin picked up the torch of directorship in Transteiproject. The same year, a government decision was adopted to consolidate the design organizations. Three departments of the Research and Methodical Bureau of Soyuztransproject, Department of Technical Specifications and Research and Methodical Developments, Department of Cost Estimate Standards, Department of Engineering Labor Norms, joined Transteiproject.
The merger of Transteiproject and the Research and Methodical Bureau of Soyuztransproject opened a new era in the history of the institutes. The range of tasks was automatically expanded, for which purpose six departments were established: Department of Economics, Department of Network Development, Department of Technical Specifications and Norms, Department of Cost Estimate Standards, Department of Engineering Labor Norms, and Department of Standard Designs.
In June 1950, Mikhail Fedorovich Galanov was appointed Head of Transteiproject.
On April 6, 1951, according to Decree No 1137 of the USSR Council of Ministers, Transteiproject became All-Union Design Bureau for Technical, Economic, Research and Methodical Developments in the Railway Transport Sector. The same year the Department of Standard Design was established in order to develop standard designs of structures for certain branches of the railway industry, which paved the way to providing railway construction with standard designs.
In 1951, the institute was supposed to commission 135 facilities, however 16 facilities were not commissioned on time. The reason was more than excusable - a significant amount of off-schedule work performed under special assignments from superior organizations.
Establishment of Giprotranstei. Railway electrification
In 1954, the Ministry of Transport Construction (MTC) was established to which all the design organizations of Soyuztransproject were assigned. However, Transteiproject, through the efforts of F.P. Mulyukin, Head of the CPEU, remained in the system of the Ministry of Communication Lines. Nevertheless, during the demerger, two important departments were separated from Transteiproject to MTS: Cost Estimate Department and Department of Model Designs.
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On October 30, 1954, pursuant to Decree No. 1723 of the USSR Council of Ministers dd August 14, 1954, by Order No. 263/CZ of V.A. Garnyka, USSR Deputy Minister for Communication Lines, the State Institute of Feasibility Studies and Design of Railway Transport Giprotranstei was established on the basis of Transteiproject. By the resolution of the State Construction Committee, the institute was ranked among the leading ones in the field of performance of feasibility studies in the sector of railway transport. Initially, the organizational structure of the institute included three production departments: Department of Economics, Department of Network Development, Department of Technical Specifications and Norms.
In December 1954, after unfortunate death of M.F. Galanov the position of the director of the Institute was taken by Nikolai Petrovich Vasilyev.
Since the institute was renamed, the range of operations has expanded considerably. The wide range of tasks assigned to the Institute by the Ministry of Communication Lines required the establishment of new specialized departments and even the expansion of the range of roles for engineers and technicians.
Giprotranstei specialists were advocates of electrification, having developed a methodology for comparing types of traction and the corresponding standards. Under the leadership of key employees of the Institute A.F. Semenyako, N.P. Belenky, P.V. Ermakov, M.B. Prusakov, D.I. Vlasov and others, the Institute proceeded to developing the "General Scheme of Electrification of Railways" in 1954, which, with the help of specially elaborated methods and developed standards, established the sequence of conversion of lines from diesel to electric traction.
In accordance with this scheme, which in 1956 formed the basis of "General Plan of Electrification of Railways" adopted at the government level, 40,000 km of the most important railway lines of the network were electrified by 1982.
In 1958 a Department for the Revaluation of Fixed Assets of the industry was established (it was terminated in 1960, as soon as it accomplished its tasks).
In August 1960, Anatoly Fedorovich Semenyako was appointed Head of Giprotranstei, whose directorship eventually became the longest in the history of the Institute.
Under his guidance and with his direct participation, feasibility studies were developed to substantiate the strategy of postwar reconstruction of rail transport. The director personally took part in the defense of major projects not only before the directing officials of the Ministry of Communication Lines and management of railways, but also in such state bodies as USSR Gosplan, Committee for Science and Technology, COMECON.
A.F. Semenyako was popular among railroad-men of many countries. He made a valuable contribution to upgrading the transportation industry in Iran, Mongolia, and Finland.
The 1960s were featured by the expansion and deepening of promising developments, participation of the Institute in complex interdepartmental projects, cooperation with industry, research, design and other organizations.
In the 1960s, Giprotranstei developed economic sections of projects for electrification of sections and lines of Main Siberian Railway, the Moscow-Kiev-Lvov and Moscow-Kirov lines, sections adjacent to the Moscow railway hub, and many others.
In 1962, a Department for Methodical and Technical Guidance of Road Design Organizations (Department of Railway Projects) was established to supervise road design offices.
In the same year Giprotranstei took part in the development of the first General Scheme of the Moscow railway hub development for the estimated terms of up to 1970 and 1980. The Institute specialists developed sections "Passenger Transportation" and "Freight Transportation".
1964 was marked by the first use of computer technology and in 1966 an independent division was established to provide solutions for the most complex technical and economic estimates.
Since 1967, economic sections and rationale for the transport operations of the Baikal-Amur Mainline have been developed. During the same period, research and development of proposals for the current recovery domain in electric traction trains were conducted.
In response to emerging demand, in 1969, the Department of Re-Valuation of Railway Fixed Assets was re-established, which existed until 1975.
November 1969 - establishment of a Department for Classification of Structures, Devices and Railroad Sections by Gauges in Giprotranstei, abbreviated name - "Gauge Department". This made a start for ten years of work on establishing the gauge characteristics of all structures and devices on the railroad, the size of the railways track spacing of the entire network. The work resulted in the publication of the "Guideline for the application of structures clearance gauge GOST 9238-83", which became the master document for gauges for all railway workers in the former Soviet Union.
In the same year, the Technical Board (later the Research and Technical Board) was established from among the most qualified specialists of the Institute, as well as scientists and specialists from other organizations.
Development of complex network operations
In the early 1970s, the Institute continued to expand its range of operations. At the same time, Giprotranstei's topics were increasingly dominated by complex network operations. They were carried out in collaboration with a wide range of academic, research, and design organizations in a variety of industries. Most of the fundamental policy and conceptual documents on the development of the country's railway transport and international transport links were issued with the participation of Giprotranstei specialists.
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1972 - establishment of the Department of Research and Technical Information.
Giprotranstei was subordinated to Glavzheldorproekt, the new head office of the Ministry of Communication Lines. The head of the institute was once again titled as the director.
Giprotranstei in cooperation with the Central Research Institute (today - VNIIZhT) developed "Main areas of long-term railway development till 1976-1990". The master design document of the Institute remained the General Scheme of development and siting of facilities of the railway transport for the upcoming 10-20 years. The materials it contained became the basis for planning the development and reforming of rail transport, introduction of advanced equipment and cutting-edge technology. In the 1970s and 1980s, schemes for siting and development of marshalling yards were further developed.
1980 - establishment of the Department of Design Work Mechanization and Department of Project Release.
In 1981, Giprotranstei took part in the development of the General Scheme of Complex Development of Transport in Moscow (section "Railway transportation", phase 1 "Proposals for complex development of transport in 1985 and the main areas for 1990").
1982 - the Department of General Transport Problems was established at the Institute.
In June 1985, Valentin Grigorievich Savelyev became the Director of the Institute. Thanks to V.G. Savelyev, among others, two major European transport corridors were extended to the territory of Russia. In the period of directorship of V.G. Savelyev, Giprotranstei in cooperation with institutes of the Ministry of Communication Lines and Mintransstroy carried out the first feasibility study of high-speed passenger trains on the Moscow - St. Petersburg section, an alternative project of the construction of high-speed railway line.
1985 - first use of intercompany accounting through the transition to the crew contract, the establishment of creative (author's) teams.
In the 1980s, the Chief Engineer of the Institute was P.V. Ermakov, Deputy Directors were E.K. Sotin, Yu.T. Timokhin, V.N. Gurov. Heads of departments were experienced highly qualified specialists, such as: G.A. Volokh, V.V. Redkin, L.G. Gulyakov, I.N. Isaakian, A.S. Chertkov, S.A. Fedoseev.
Later on departments and author's teams were headed by talented specialists: V.I. Belyaev, V.R. Kozlovsky, B.V. Aneshin, E.P. Ivanova, A.A. Kocheragin, L.G. Kolyshkina, A.N. Zybkin, V.I. Kazarin. S.N. Sheiko, S.G. Frolov, E.V. Kartashova, N.V. Kirsanova, A.P. Sakharov, V.S. Zhukov. F.S. Shinkarev was still in charge of handling the network problems and influencing the personnel training, the planning and financial work at the Institute was headed by K.G. Vladimirov, and F.S. Pekhterev was appointed Chief Engineer of the Institute on a competitive basis in April 1987.
1988 marked the Institute's transition to full cost accounting and self-financing. Some of the departments of the Institute were reorganized/renamed:
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Department of Technical Specifications and Norms and Regulatory and Methodological Department were merged into the Regulatory and Methodological Department;
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Department of Network Development was renamed into the Department of Prospective Development of Railway Transport (PRZT);
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Department of Inter-district Exchange and Network Issues became the Department of Economic Research;
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Export and Import Transportation Department was reorganized into the Foreign Trade Transportation Design Department (FTRD);
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Price Department became the Pricing Department (PD).
Since the mid-1980s Giprotranstei began to form an insurance fund of design documentation for railway transport facilities. In 1989, the Institute established the Main Reprographic Service of the Ministry of Communication Lines.
According to the personnel report for 1989, Giprotranstei had 347 employees, 78% of whom had higher education, the average age was 37.8 years.
In 1989, the Institute had Petr Vasilyevich Ermakov, an Honored Worker of Transport of the RSFSR, Levon Artemovich Stepanov, an Honored Economist of the RSFSR, 26 honorary railroad workers, 149 persons with governmental awards employed.
Economic reform and new challenges
By 1990, in accordance with the order of the Politbureau of the CPSU Central Committee, the Ministry of Communication Lines developed a draft Program of Technical Re-tooling and Upgrade of USSR Railways for 1991-2000. Giprotranstei took an active part in this work, preparing all the estimates on the development of the network and the leading enterprises.
In 1990, Giprotranstei celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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In 1992 the state financing of Giprotranstei (amounted to 60% of the total amount) was suspended, as well as there were a number of structural changes: establishment of the Marketing and Pricing Department, closing down of the Technical Department. The Institute had to downsize its personnel, expand its field of activity, look for new areas of work, new customers. In this context, the main priority was given to activities aimed at reducing operating costs, current and capital expenditures, improving the speed and quality of transportation, and ensuring the safety of train traffic.
During this period, feasibility studies were carried out to increase the speed of passenger trains on the following routes: Moscow - St. Petersburg, Moscow - Krasnoye and Moscow - Voronezh - Rostov - Mineralnye Vody.
By decision of the Research and Technical Board of Giprotranstei in 1993, the company started massive introduction of IT technologies in its processes. The most cutting-edge office and computer equipment available at that time was purchased. A complete change in the operating technology at the institute started from the project release department.
In 1994, on the basis of the closed down Departments of Design Work Mechanization, Project Release Department and Department of Program Technical and Economic Estimations, the Department of Program Estimates and Project Release (PRVP) was established.
In the following year, the Group of Program Estimates was separated from the PRVP and became the Program Technical and Economic Estimation Department (PTER), later renamed as the Design Automation Department (APR). And the PRVP department was reorganized into the Project Release Department - OVP.
The Institute experienced a significant increase in its workload due to expanding connections and cooperation with designers, research institutes and commercial entities of England, Germany, Holland, China, Korea, the United States and other countries.
In 1995, Giprotranstei in cooperation with the institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences carried out "Development of the main provisions of the concept of creating a transcontinental railway with a tunnel under the Bering Strait on the basis of the generalization of research work performed".
In November 1995, Fedor Stepanovich Pekhterev was appointed Director of Giprotranstei, and, in January 1996, Yury Vasilyevich Chepurkin was appointed Chief Engineer.
Upon assuming the post of Giprotranstei Director, Fedor Stepanovich not only continued the best production traditions of his predecessors, but also developed them with consideration of the trends of the time and outlined directions for fundamental organizational and legal reforms in the industry. He was directly involved in the elaboration of all the fundamental documents on this subject and made many useful suggestions for strengthening their content.
Over the years of his directorship of the Institute, F.S. Pekhterev became not only the initiator of the development, but also the moving spirit for the most important projects.
Since the mid-1990s, Giprotranstei in cooperation with VNIIZhT has performed a number of operations aimed at reducing the industry's operating costs, introducing resource-saving technologies, reducing fixed production assets and adjusting the capacity of individual railway transport enterprises to the amount of work performed.
For example, in 1998-1999, the work "Upgrading the regulatory data base for evaluation of the options of car traffic direction on the main lines of the Russian railroads network" and, in 1999, the work "The technology of car traffic direction for the main lines and distribution of the work according to the network formation plan in order to decrease operational costs of the industry" were carried out.
Beside that, in 1996, the "Implementation plan of high-speed passenger traffic on the railroads of the Russian Federation and its implementation phase for the period up to 2010" was developed. It became the first ever work on high-speed traffic in the history of the institute.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the institute was actively involved in the preparation of strategic documents on reforming and upgrading the railway industry.
At the beginning of 1999, there were only 113 employees (74% with higher education) working at the institute, three times less than in 1989. Over 10 years there have been structural changes, automation, upgrade of processes, which allowed the institute to maintain and even increase the volume of work with a significant reduction in the number of personnel.
In March 2000, Giprotranstei celebrated its 60th anniversary.
In the early 2000s, in the context of transformations and the resulting turbulence, the role of Giprotranstei as an institute determining the development strategy of the industry increases: it continues to forecast freight and passenger traffic, develops scientific and technical programs, regulatory materials aimed at improving the efficiency and quality of railroads, adapting them to the changing market environment. As before, Giprotranstei continues to develop the industry's supporting structures - the General and Regional Schemes for the Development and Siting of Rail Transport.
In 2000-2001, Giprotranstei, in cooperation with 15 design organizations, carried out the "Comprehensive feasibility study of the project for the construction of the Mainland - Sakhalin Railway Line with a Bridge (Tunnel Crossing) across the Nevelsky Strait” which received a positive opinion of the Expert Board.
In the same year, the institute's specialists developed a feasibility study for the reconstruction of the eastern section of the Trans-Korean railroad.
Strengthening competencies. Reformation of RZD JSCo
In accordance with the Program of the Structural Reform of the Railway Transport and on the basis of the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 585 dd September 18, 2003, Russian Railways JSC was incorporated on October 1, 2003. Giprotranstei becomes a structural unit (branch) of RZD JSCo.
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In 2003-2004, a number of transformations took place: the Design Automation Department and Project Release Department were merged into the Project Release Department; the Department of Foreign Trade Transportation Design and the Department of Economic Research were merged into the Department of Economic Research; the Department of Marketing and Pricing was separated from Giprotranstei and subordinated to Russian Railways JSCo. On the basis of the Group of Investment Project Expertise, the Department of Investment Design and Assessment of Economic Efficiency of the Projects Created Within the Branches of RZD JSCo was established. The main task of the new unit was to verify the content and quality of rationale and estimates of the effectiveness of investment proposals.
All the activities of the institute in the 2000s were carried out in line with the reformation of the domestic railway transport. As early as 2004, the specialists of the Institute took part in the preparation of the "Strategic development program of RZD JSCo up to 2010", taking into account the need to double the gross domestic product of the country in the coming years.
Giprotranstei specialists continued to contribute to technical and technological re-equipment of the industry, improvement of its design and estimate documentation, regulatory framework, economic and investment policy. In the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Giprotranstei retains its status as the institute that coordinates design solutions at the interfaces of the various modes of transport.
In the beginning of the 2000s, the “General scheme of the railway transport development for the period till 2010” was intensively adjusted, the basic parameters of development of the freight and passenger transportation volumes of the RZD JSCo for 2015-2020 were worked out, the volumes of transportation and the transport and economic links were estimated using the system of international transport corridors.
In 2003-2004, the Institute specialists developed a feasibility study for the reconstruction of the Sakhalin railroad to a network-wide gauge.
In 2004, the institute continued to develop scientifically substantiated and realistic cost estimate standards for construction and overhaul of railway transport facilities. Thus, in 2003-2004, 26 regulatory collections for estimations prepared by specialists of Giprotranstei were enacted by instructions of the Ministry of Communication Lines of Russia and orders of the Russian Railways.
In 2005, Giprotranstei celebrated its 65th anniversary. By that time, Giprotranstei fully adapted to the new market conditions and consolidated its reputation as one of the best design institutes in the country.
In 2006, an Analytical Department was established at the Institute.
2006 - "Strategic Program of Baikal-Amur Mainline Development up to 2020" was developed.
In 2006-2007, the Institute took part in the development of the "Strategy of railway transport development in the Russian Federation until 2030" (approved in 2008).
In 2006-2008, Giprotranstei in cooperation with the State Unitary Enterprise "NIIPI General Plan of Moscow" worked out "The General scheme of development of the Moscow railway hub" (approved in 2008).
2007 - start of development of the project for extending the 1520 mm gauge deep into Europe (project Košice - Bratislava - Vienna).
Within the framework of the Program of Technical Upgrade and Development of UBZh JSC in 2008-2009 the Institute specialists developed the "Draft concept of infrastructure development and upgrade of rolling stock of Mongolian Railways (UBZh JSC)” and the "Concept of the joint Russian-Mongolian project of development of UBZh JSC and construction of new railway infrastructure in Mongolia".
Also, in 2008-2009, a feasibility study was carried out to substantiate investments into the construction of Rasht - Astara (Iran) - Astara (Azerbaijan) rail line, which allowed the institute to comprehensively examine the issue as to whether it is possible to build a new route in the transport communication of the Persian Gulf and South Asia with Russia and European countries.
Reorganization of Giprotranstei into the Institute for Transport Economics and Development
In 2010, the Board of Directors of Russian Railways approved a package of documents to create a subsidiary company authorized to conduct research and development in the field of economics and strategic development of rail transport. Giprotranstei, a branch of RZD JSCo, received the status of an open joint-stock company and the new name of the Institute for Transport Economics and Development (IEDT).
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In order to improve the quality and validity of the forecast of future needs of the national economy in railway freight transport, to substantiate the long-term prospects and develop a scenario forecast of the volume of freight transportation by rail, IEDT JSC in cooperation with the Institute for National Economic Forecasts of RAS for the first time developed and implemented the software and methodological complex of scenario modeling based on the application of inter-industry inter-regional balances.
In 2011, the "Concept of upgrade and development of railway infrastructure to organize transportation services for passengers during the 2018 FIFA World Cup" was developed.
In the same year, specialists of the institute created a branch estimate and regulatory framework of RZD JSCo (OSNBZh-2001). It was necessary to ensure establishing a unified pricing policy, created with consideration of the linear nature and regional characteristics in the construction and re-construction of infrastructure facilities implemented throughout Russia.
During 2012-2015, IEDT JSC, in cooperation with the State Unitary Enterprise "NIIPI General Plan of Moscow" updated the General Scheme of the Moscow Railway Hub until 2020 and 2025 (approved in 2015).
In 2013, the Technical Department was reorganized into the Research Support Department (OSNID).
At that time, specialists of the institute provided a rationale for the project of construction of the railway line between the mainland and the island of Sakhalin, participated in the development of an investment project to upgrade the railway infrastructure of the Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian Mainlines, developed a methodology for the classification and specialization of public railway lines of RZD JSCo, and carried out many other projects.
In 2014, the Transport Strategy of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2030, developed with the direct participation of the Institute, was approved.
Since 2014, the institute has been involved in the development of the project "Development and renovation of the railway infrastructure at the approaches to the ports of the Sea of Azov-Black Sea Basin".
In accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation, on October 23, 2015, IEDT JSC was named as Joint Stock Company Institute for Transport Economics and Development (IEDT JSC).
After the establishment of the Transport Systems Interoperability Department (TSID) in 2015 within the structure of IEDT JSC under the supervision of Professor A.F. Borodin, PhD in Engineering Sciences, the Institute's field of activity expanded, as automation and digitalization of process flows of the RZD Holding were actively developing. A number of automated systems, now in commercial use, were created at IEDT JSC.
In 2015, the Institute developed the project "Development of railway infrastructure at the approaches to the ports of Northwest Russia," with the main purpose to increase carriage and traffic capacity in the Yekaterinburg - Ports of Northwest Basin domain.
At the same time, the Institute also went on performing its traditional operations to update the General Scheme of Railway Network Development of RZD JSCo, increase the carrying capacity of heavy-traffic lines (Program for the Development of Heavy Traffic on the Railway Transport in Russia), cooperation with foreign countries (feasibility study for the phased development of the railway network of Kyrgyzstan and other countries) and addressing other transport problems.
IEDT JSC - the major engineering and economic headquarters of RZD JSCo
November 2018 - Yury Nikolayevich Fedorov was appointed Director General of IEDT JSC.
In 2019, under the directorship of Yu.N. Fedorov, the institute implemented a set of measures to develop existing and expand new areas of the institute, strengthened existing and created 5 new centers of excellence.
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In 2019, a feasibility study for the phased development of the railway network in Kyrgyzstan was developed to transform it into a transit country with safe and highly-demanded corridors for the transit of passengers and freight.
In March 15, 2020, the Institute for Transport Economics and Development celebrated its 80 years' anniversary.
Since 2020, there had been changes in the economic situation in the country due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation and restrictive measures to combat the spread of a novel coronavirus infection Covid-19, however despite that, the Institute went on working on the implementation of significant investment projects.
Thus, in order to take into account the latest process and engineering solutions in the production of strategic documents, the Institute in cooperation with the research and industrial complex (RIC) of the RZD Holding has been developing the technological section of the General Scheme of Development of the Railroad Network of RZD JSCo and working to update the document with the extension of the strategic planning horizon up to 2036.
Furthermore, the institute has been directly involved in updating the Transport Strategy of the Russian Federation until 2030 with a forecast for the period up to 2035, in terms of work on the synchronization of plans for the development of railway and port infrastructure to ensure the supply of coal products to foreign markets.
The Institute continued the detailed elaboration and support of complex investment projects for the development of railway infrastructure of the Eastern Domain, at the approaches to the ports of the Northwest, the Azov-Black Sea basin, the Central Transport Hub, the St. Petersburg railway hub, etc. Target indicators for the implementation of these projects are being monitored.
IEDT JSC has been elaborating a strategic document regulating the phased transformation of railroad sections of the RZD JSCo network from self-powered to electric traction and improving the energy efficiency of the transportation process, the Long-Term Plan for Electrification of Railways of the RZD JSCo until 2050.
The profile of up-to-date automated freight forecasting systems is created, in particular, the system of automated development of freight flow forecast by sections and directions of the railway network of RZD JSCo and the analytical model of the production balance have been developed.
In 2021, IEDT JSC was one of the three leaders in RZD JSCo among companies involved in the import substitution of software, worked in the field of intellectual property management, which resulted in obtaining16 certificates of state registration of computer programs and the registration of the Trademark of the Institute.
As part of cooperation in the field of joint research with educational and research organizations in 2019-2021, the Institute signed agreements with the Russian University of Transport (MIIT), Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University (PSTU), National Research University "Higher School of Economics", JSC VNIIZhT, JSC VNIKTI, JSC NIIAS.
For the realization of opportunities and strengthening the position in the research market, the institute undergoes necessary transformations, a new division of the Digital Development Project Management Center is being created with the main objective of developing and controlling the implementation of the Digital Transformation Strategy, as well as managing projects for digitalization of the activities of IEDT JSC.
IEDT JSC today
Irina Gennadyevna Magnushevskaya was appointed Director General of IEDT JSC in January 2022. The new director assumed its role in the conditions of macroeconomic uncertainty and fundamental transformation of trade and economic relations, which determined the dynamic processes of changing the structure and directions of freight and passenger traffic, and, accordingly, the conditions of operational work on the network.
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In order to improve the accuracy of operational work planning for the coming period, IEDT JSC has developed a number of regulatory and methodological documents aimed at providing a timely response to changing conditions. Thus, IEDT JSC in cooperation with the institutes of RIC of RZD JSCo developed a new Guideline for the Estimation of Carriage and Traffic Capacity of Railroads of RZD JSCo (approved by the Order of RZD JSCo No. 545r dated 04/03/2022).
At the current stage, the relevance of tasks to improve the accuracy and speed of forecasts, taking into account various external factors, and the variability of the parameters of technical and economic development, with consideration of the possibility of using advanced technologies has increased for the Institute.
In this regard, one of the key vectors of development of IEDT JSC is associated with the digital transformation, which in today's world has already become a pre-requisite for sustainable business development. For these purposes, the institute has carried out a number of organizational transformations: mechanisms of cross-functional interaction between divisions have been introduced, a specialized Center for Project Management and Digital Development and a Center for Software Development and Implementation is being established.
One of the most popular in RZD JSCo and promising software products created with the direct participation of IEDT JSC is the Unified Simulation Model of Infrastructure Development of RZD JSCo. This complex will provide a quick assessment of possible options for changing the investment strategy based on the performance of simulation estimates to adjust scenarios of infrastructural and technological development.
