Drawing up a basic initial plan for the placement of rolling stock

The issue of priority customer service is directly related to the profit received by the carrier. It is necessary to distribute the existing rolling stock on routes so that its return empty has minimal resource costs. In the process of solving applied transport management problems, regardless of the degree of their complexity, which arise before an enterprise in a market economy, the correct application of mathematical methods will be. The article considers one of the stages of application of the combined matrix method, concerning the arrangement of empty rolling stock in the framework of the routing process of transportation of homogeneous cargo. As a result, a reference initial layout plan was obtained, which should then be used to compile a combined matrix. The best methods of arranging empty rolling stock are the method of the smallest element and the method of double preference.