INNOVATIVE IMPERATIVES FOR COMPETITIVENESS OF NATIONAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS IN CONDITIONS OF GLOBALIZATION

In modern conditions of globalization the problems of national economies competitiveness provision and, as a consequence, of countries' economic safety assurance, are very important and they require urgent elaboration of appropriate decisions by scientific and business community. This is particularly important for the development of transport systems, which play an important role in the livelihood of the population through the provision of spatial relations: interregional, interstate, between the production and consumers and other. The development of information society has necessitated the acceleration of all processes, including reducing the delivery time. In this regard, an important condition for ensuring the competitiveness of the national transport system in the world market of transportation and logistics services is the scientific and technological transport development and activation of innovation activities of transportation and logistics companies in accordance with the main vector of its development to improve the time of delivery. The authors propose to use the instrument of strategic controlling for the purposes of assessing the national transport system competitiveness. The article presents the key-point indicators for estimation of transport systems innovativeness. Using the proposed evaluation system will allow to perform benchmarking of national transport systems and to improve them to the level of advanced countries in order to harmonize the global transport system. The contribution of the Emperor Alexander I St.Petersburg State Transport University to the transport system development, both national and global, has been presented. For example, research and technical solutions in the field of transport based on magnetogravitational technology, development of high-speed rail lines have being conducted at the University.