It is not just about the flow of transport between trains, but they also plan to build a system for logistic firms to avail a cargo spaces within the Russian rail Network. Meaning, it would be efficient for supplies since the cost will be significantly lower compared to renting trucks.
The cost of transporting something via the railway compared to trucks has nothing to with any blockchain application, a company might find a way to lower administrative costs but at the end that is a tiny fraction of the main cost, with the infrastructure, trains and engines and fuel. And in that aspect, a database will not be able to do anything. A spike in electricity price with a dump in oil prices and railway transport is screwed, the same the other way around. I don't know what the prices for freight transport ar in Russia but here is much cheaper to send a cargo Rotterdam by train than by truck already, and I wonder why in Russia with such large land it's not the same, railways gain the advantages when distances grow and lose it all for short <300 km distances.
Secondary, I'm wondering why a blockchain solution would be advantageous over a traditional database in a closed environment logistic problem?
With blockchain powered rail network the scheduling and the train movements can be tracked accurately. Already more logistics networks function on the blockchain. One such is the Dubai logistics network, and here Russia will have advantage with the blockchain powered rail network on logistics.
Wow, I wonder how the Japanese managed for decades to transport billions of passages a year with maximum punctuality even without a blockchain.
Yous till have transparency as you can check at every time where the trains are if it has any delay, all the data is public, why a blockchain? Some real argument other than a buzzword used by everyone who wants to grab the spotlight?
