Conjugations of Transport Networks Between Southern Regions of the Russian Far East and Neighboring Countries

The paper identifies and discusses various spatial forms and structures of conjugation of transport networks of the Russian Far East (or Pacific Russia) and neighboring countries. It is noted that in the context of the Russia’s focus on balancing its foreign economic relations between the “Western” and “Eastern” directions, the effective interfacing of its Far Eastern transport networks with the networks of neighboring countries becomes an important task. A comparative analysis of freight traffic through the existing transport networks’ conjugations (rail and road) and checkpoints at border areas is carried out, and the transformation of some of them into the international transport corridors (ITCs) is proposed. The necessity of high-speed ITCs’ network forming within the Far East and the border crossing points development at the state borders corresponding to the modern technical and informative level (ensuring the transportation of increasing volumes of transit and regional export-import cargoes) is justified.

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