Regulation of the activities of JSC “Russian Railways”: expert evaluation of options for improving

The problem of the structural reform of railway transport in Russia is being considered in the article. Two ways of the reform are suggested, the methodology and results of the expert evaluation of the options are described in detail. There have been shown the experience dealing with the use of expert technology; in particular it has to do with the tools of the qualitative and quantitative estimation of the options by using the modified models of so-called Osgood’s semantic differential which is widely used in the sociology. There are the questionnaires prepared for the examination; there are the results of the questionnaire of the expert group of qualified specialists of the Institute of Economics and industrial engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Siberian State Transport University. When finding a solution there have been used game theory methods, in particular, the theory of Nash equilibrium strategies, Wald’s maximum criterion, Maximax, Hurwicz's, Savage's criterion. The results allow making several significant conclusions which suppose to encourage the optimal solution in the structural reform of railway transport in Russia.