Results of the FQW Competition in Technology of Transport Processes
have been summed up at SPbGASU
The All-Russian competition of final qualifying works among Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students specializing in Technology of Transport Processes (programmes of study 23.03.01 and 23.04.01) has been held since 2007 by the decision of the Educational and Methodological Association of Russian higher education institutions providing training in the field of transport and technological machines and complexes. The purpose of the competition is enhancing the quality of professional training in automobile transport management.
Traditionally, one of the competition rounds is organized at the SPbGASU Faculty of Automobile and Road Building. This year, the Department of Transport Systems hosted the final stage of the competition, which took place on November 23–25 in a distance format.
The competition jury has reviewed 98 final qualifying works (FQW) submitted by Bachelor’s degree students from 27 universities and 35 Master’s papers from 17 universities.
“We strive to expand the geography of the competition every year, so that representatives of participating universities would like to come back to us,” said Olga Popova, Associate Professor of the SPbGASU Department of Transport Systems.
The FQWs submitted for evaluation covered a range of topics related to the organization of passenger and freight carriages, transport infrastructure development, transport and warehousing logistics. SPbGASU was represented by three Bachelor’s FQWs and three Master’s qualifying papers, all of which have become the competition’s award winners.
To determine the winners, the jury assessed the depth of the subject analysis, the novelty and potential implementation of the results, fundamentality and approbation of the work results, and the quality of its design.
Evgeniya Reshetnik, a Bachelor’s student of SPbGASU, under the guidance of Associate Professor Olga Popova, decided to improve the organization of delivery of luxury cars from Germany to customers in St. Petersburg. Solutions proposed by Evgeniya can increase profit and sales volume, reduce delivery time and costs. The work was awarded first place.
Fragment of Evgeniya Reshetnik’s FQW. The structure of passenger car transportation market by type of transportation
Fragment of Maria Andreeva’s FQW. Transportation of goods
SPbGASU Master’s student Darya Kholyavka, under the guidance of Professor Andrey Gorev, examined the transport support for cruise ship tourists arriving at the Passenger Port of Saint Petersburg "Marine Façade", identified weaknesses in the service and developed a number of recommendations. The work was awarded the second place.
Supervised by the senior lecturer Olga Morozova, the SPbGASU Bachelor’s student Elizaveta Kosareva has studied the economic effect of the full transfer of the bus fleet No. 5 vehicles to gas fuel. The project is aimed at developing alternative energy sources and reducing the amount of emissions of harmful substances into the environment. By the decision of the jury, the work won first place.
The SPbGASU Bachelor’s student Valeria Fomina, under the guidance of senior teacher Olga Morozova, has studied the practical application of the new Russian legislation norms for adjacent inter-regional routes of regular transportation. Valeria's proposals are designed to form a mechanism for providing transport services to passengers eligible for reduced fares on unregulated-fare transport routes subject to these benefits. The work was awarded the first place.
Fragment of Valeria Fomina’s qualifying paper. Transport route scheme
➠ Final competition protocol of Bachelor’s degree FQWs
➠ Final competition protocol of Master’s degree FQWs
Text: Tatyana Petrova
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