STATISTIC RESEARCH OF AUTOMOBILE PASSENGER TURNOVER IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION REGIONS
The article considers the methods for territorial disproportion identification and pointing out difference between the level and quality of bus passenger transport functioning. All this made it possible to single out subjects of the Russian Federation possessing a potential for transport infrastructure development. The retrospective analysis was carried out; main trends of regional "stratification" according to the investigated characteristics were revealed.
Keywords: transport strategy, territorial disproportions in transport infrastructure development,
regional differentiation, clustering, regions stratification, passenger turnover factor score level,
retrospective analysis.
Valentin L. Maksimov, a post-graduate student of Samara State University of Economics.