Structural Transformations of Passenger Transportation Costs by Urban Electric Transport

. Transport enterprises of the Republic of Belarus today are at the stage of overcoming the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and sanctions pressure related to the peculiarities of the development of its economy. Modern operating cоnditions for enterprises providing passenger transportation services dictate that service providers focus on structural and organizational development, and on increasing efficiency in meeting the changing demands of consumers. Achieving an economic result for this type of enterprise is equivalent to determining a rational ratio of costs for  production, material, financial and labor resources in the process of providing transport services. The processes of agglomeration of passenger transportation in suburban traffic, urbanization, as well as the emergence of technologically new means of personal mobility have intensified restructuring of passenger flows in public transport services. In suburban and urban passenger transportation, road and rail transport is most often involved, and  inland water transport is less common. Passenger transportation is carried out by various types of ground transport: buses and electric buses, trolleybuses and trams, taxi cars and also transport owned by citizens, the competition between which depends on the ratio of price parities of a carrier and the level of consumer income. In this regard, it is necessary to revise price and non-price measures of flexible response of transport carriers of passengers in the process of providing socially significant services. This paper examines the essence of services for the transportation of passengers in regular traffic within the boundaries of the territory of Minsk in relation to the current level of development of the transport and logistics system of the Republic of Belarus. The purpose of the study was to develop proposals for calculating the cost of transport work for passenger transportation using the example of the electric transport fleet in Minsk.

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