Economics and Business Management

The article is devoted to the solution of a topical issue – improving the efficiency of the road transportation process on the basis of improving the methods of selecting vehicles for the transportation of certain agricultural cargo under the given opera ng conditions. It has been proved that a significant number of parameters influence the efficiency of road transportation in agricultural production. In addition to the generally accepted factors (costs of maintenance and fuels and lubricants), transportation conditions, cargo type, type of unloading and loading operations have a significant impact in agricultural production conditions. It is proved that the variety of agricultural cargo within one farm encourages enterprises to form a universal vehicle fleet. As a result of the analysis of purchases of vehicles by agricultural enterprises, it has been determined that there are no stable approaches of enterprises to forming the vehicle fleet, which confirms the thesis of the influence of a large number of factors on the choice of vehicles for transportation in agricultural production conditions. The approaches to the definition of the reserves for increasing the efficiency of the available vehicle fleet and to the forma on of the op mal structure for certain operational conditions have been considered. The objective need for proper grounding of the choice of vehicle for the conditions of agricultural production, due to the need to take into account a large number of parameters that characterize both the vehicle and the cargo and transportation conditions. In this context, the authors have proposed for practical use an algorithm for selecting a vehicle to perform specific transport work on the transportation of agricultural products, which takes into account the set of vehicles characteristics, cargo type, and transport conditions. Attention has been drawn to the need for a systema c approach to the selection of transport vehicles es ma on criteria in agricultural production. Taking into account the size of the bulk density, the availability of loading and unloading facilities, the peculiarities of transportation conditions, the amount of average expenses per unit of transport allows to comprehensively assess a single vehicle, op itemize the choice of vehicle transportation of concrete agricultural cargo, minimize financial losses, thus, to increase the efficiency of the transportation process in agricultural production. Consideration of the op mal list of vehicle parameters provided by the presented algorithm will increase the efficiency of the transport process in agricultural production, both by reducing opera ng costs and by saving cargo and me. The clear structure of the proposed algorithm, with a justification of each stage and the purpose of each step, certainty and discreteness make it easy to solve with available so ware

algorithm; transportation process; transport work; transportation process optimization; evaluation criteria; road transport; agricultural cargo