METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMETRIC SUBSTANTIATION OF THE FARE PAYMENT SYSTEM IN URBAN PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION

Abstract

In the article on the basis of the analysis of scientific recommendations and practice of fare payment organization in urban passenger transport in the Republic of Belarus and other countries, methodological advantages and problems of econometric substantiation of its prospective development are revealed. The necessity to prevent passengers from abusing the possibility of “fare dodging” and to ensure economic integrity in the use of public transport by means of digitalization of technological and financial technology of its payment system implementation in passenger transport is argued.

It has been established that such key trends of digitalization of passenger transport as the development and harmonized implementation of technological achievements of mechatronics, robotization, “artificial” intelligence (AI), ecotronics in logistics create prerequisites for overcoming the conflict configuration of fare payment systems in urban passenger transport, alternative costs, revenues and the complexity of their optimization from the position of the requirements of competitive policy of all participants of ecosystems on the basis of economic theory not traditional equilibrium, but on the basis of the economic theory of the equilibrium of all participants of the ecosystems.

The necessity of effective adaptation of the fare payment system in urban passenger transport to the new challenges and opportunities of its digitalization through the development and practical application of engineering and economic methodological tools of accounting policy of effective mining of dynamically differentiated values of transport companies' tariffs on the fluctuating market of aggregate-network or “smart-split” demand and supply of passenger transportation has been argued, taking into account three fundamental prerequisites of its development: 1) new adaptive structuring of databases of passenger travel records and/or fare calculations and workflow; 2) implementation of an electronic ticket aggregator, which performs online complex of procedures and operations for the implementation of dynamic fare payment systems in urban passenger transport and 3) their online metrology and digital administration.

The concept of engineering-technological use of double validation of dynamic differentiation of investment-financial cross-interaction of transportation companies, passengers and budget (state) is developed and proposed.