Asymmetry of freight flows and Lithuanian railways capacity

Abstract

The railways of East Europe countries have loss because of the asymmetry of freight flows from East to West and from West to East. The huge amount of cheap raw bringing from Far East to West causes these losses. The railways have a lot of troubles, because they need to transport quite number of empty light wagons on the East direction. The length of entry and exit tracks of railway stations restricts the size of freight trains and limits possibility to use the traction power of the locomotives with high coefficient of efficiency. The ways to solve these problems are presented in this paper.