Baltic Journal of Economic Studies Vol. 4, No. 3, 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2018-4-3-33-41 MODERN MECHANISM OF STRENGTHENING INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY OF TRANSPORT ENTERPRISES Valentyn Halunko1 Research Institute of Public Law, Ukraine Iurii Chyzhmar2 Open International University of Human Development “Ukraine”, Ukraine Kseniia Kurkova3 Institute of Public Law, Ukraine Abstract. In order to create a well-functioning mechanism for the operation of the transport complex of the national economy of Ukraine and to increase the competitiveness of domestic transport in the world transport markets, a number of problems facing transport enterprises and the transport infrastructure of Ukraine in general need to be solved. The main issues are: a low level of service, non-compliance of the technical and technological level of domestic transport with European requirements, lagging development of transport services technologies, unsatisfactory level of transportation safety, a significant environmental load of transport to the environment, etc. The International Transport Corridor is a complex of land and water traffic arteries with appropriate infrastructure in a particular direction, including auxiliary structures, access roads, border crossings, service points, cargo and passenger terminals, equipment for traffic management, organizational and technical measures, legislative and regulatory acts that ensure the carriage of goods and passengers at the level corresponding to the requirements of the European Community. ITC №№ 3, 5, 7, 9 pass the territory of Ukraine and have a priority development in the national transport network. Relevant innovations that should support the transport industry and improve the service of providing transport services are as follows: electronic freight technology and single-window technology as a factor of acceleration of cargo movement; introduction of electronic document flow in logistics and transport activities (e.g., implementation of projects of electronic submission of information, electronic booking of queues, electronic declaration); development and implementation of standards for electronic document flow; methods of management and control over transportation costs in order to reduce the cost of delivery of goods by vehicles; application of cloud technologies and mobile devices; management of delivery terms; creation of new supply chains/transport corridors and multimodal formats, etc. The advantage of electronic document flow is that this system allows quickly sharing information. This is the implementation of single-window principle in transport terminals, where the most labour-intensive processes are associated with the processing of documents – both on arrival of cargo and on shipment. Therefore, it provides an opportunity to accelerate the time to handle a fairly large amount of information, multimodality – the possibility to transfer information from one mode of transport to another and make decisions at the junctions of transport modes. To date, the UIS has been used in the most developed ports, airports, and other intensive border crossing points in the world, attempts have been made to use it in Odesa, Illichivsk, “Yuzhnyi”, and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi ports. For developing the mentioned structural transformations, we propose to introduce an improved organizational-economic mechanism of regulation of innovative activity. The proposed structure should have inherent functions related to the state innovation and investment policy in the transport and road complex, which will allow ensuring the effectiveness of the organizational-economic mechanism for regulating the innovation activity of transport enterprises. Key words: transport enterprises, international transport corridors, innovative activity, Single Window, UIS European Association, organizational-economic mechanism, mechanism improvement. JEL Classification: R41, R42, O32, G140 Corresponding author: 1 Research Institute of Public Law. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Open International University of Human Development “Ukraine”. E-mail: [email protected] ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4870-562X 3 Department of Scientific and Legal Expertise and Legislative Work of Research, Institute of Public Law. E-mail: [email protected] 33 Baltic Journal of Economic Studies Vol. 4, No. 3, 2018 1. Introduction – intensification of the competitive struggle for transit The globalization of the world economy causes the flows in the context of the European Union’s approach intensification of inter-state economic ties, many times to the borders of Ukraine, etc. increasing the role of transport. From a geographic The introduction of advanced transport technologies perspective, efficient transportation contributes to aimed at ensuring competitiveness in the market for aligning regional disparities between countries and at transport services involves increasing the competitiveness the level of the Trans-European Transport Network of transportation on the basis of transport logistics. (TEN-T). This allows considering the transport system This allows coordinating the movement of material, as an important factor in economic growth, creating informational, and financial flows on the “door-to-door” competitive advantages for national economies within and “just-in-time – JIS” principles that will increase the the framework of the world economy, which is especially quality of the provided transport services, which include important given the integration of transport markets in the transportation of goods from the supplier to the Europe and the intensification of trade between the EU consumer, will improve the service of cargo handling and Ukraine. services. To do this, it is necessary to create interconnected The characteristic features of the current state of the logistical centres, promote the development and wide use transport industry in Ukraine are the critical level of of container transportation, conduct mixed (intermodal, financial condition and the practically worn rolling stock multimodal) transportation and interaction of different and material and technical base. One of the ways of modes of transport in transport nodes, the introduction the indicated problems is the promotion of innovative of modern information technology for data exchange, activity of transport enterprises by the state, which will transport documentation, electronic document flow. positively influence the progressive development of the transport system of Ukraine. To achieve this goal, 2.1. International transport corridors authorities and business representatives are discussing The development of the transport system is impossible existing differences and ways to eliminate them, attracting without the realization of the transit potential of Ukraine. investors to innovative projects. An example of such cooperation is the conference “Transport and Logistics According to the British Institute of Rendall, Ukraine Innovation” on 10.10.2013, organized by the Ministry has the highest transport transit rating of 3.11 in Europe of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Logistics (Postanova Kabinetu Ministriv Ukrayiny, 2016). The Alliance, Logisticpoint, the state enterprise “Premier transit rating of the territory of one or another country Expo”, and led to the introduction of an electronic takes into account the development of transport systems document flow system for key actors of transport and networks in it, as well as the level and state of the infrastructure (Materialy konferentsiyi, 2013). infrastructure. Implementation of transit capacities The purpose of the article is to consider theoretical in Ukraine requires the development of a national and practical provisions of development of innovative transport network, which involves the development of mechanisms of activities of transport enterprises at the main routes, which concentrate the largest transport state and interstate levels. flows and systems of international transport corridors (ITC) with the corresponding infrastructure. This is the most important direction of development of the 2. The methodology of research transport-road complex in the innovation sphere. The Technical and technological lagging in the level of development of international transport corridors is one transport development in Ukraine hamper the economic of the conditions for Ukraine’s integration into the EU, development of the country, its European integration, as well as its establishment as a transit state. leads to unsatisfactory level of transport services, International transport corridor is a complex of land reduction of speed of goods promotion, dependence and water traffic arteries with appropriate infrastructure of foreign trade of Ukraine on foreign transport, loss in a particular direction, including auxiliary structures, of competitiveness of domestic transport, growth of access roads, border crossings, service points, cargo danger and ecological load. and passenger terminals, equipment for traffic The main causes of these problems are (Prokopenko, management, organizational and technical measures, 2012): legislative and regulatory acts that provide the carriage – insufficient financing of state transport development of goods and passengers at the level corresponding to programs; the requirements of the European Community. ITC – insufficient volume of the attraction of foreign and provides for the presence of automobile, railway, and domestic investments in transport development; water transport modes, operating near each