Optimization of criteria for effective traffic safety management in railway company

The article discusses the activities of railway companies in ensuring traffic safety, with the objective of analyzing the impact of economic variables on the parameters of safety. Given the dependence of investment and operating costs from that of violations of traffic safety, the economic damage id determined.. Based on the methods of structural and functional analysis the interrelation scheme of traffic safety processes is developed, which include management processes, the processes of resource provision, the process of the life cycle of transport systems and the interaction processes with customers and information links. Possible changes in these processes and the resulting risks are described. Options for countering risks are developed. Depending on the stages of management (planning, organization, control, corrective action proposed criteria to assess the effectiveness of the safety management system of movement and activity to improve its effectiveness.