The development of criteria for evaluating energy efficiency and the choice of the optimal composition of the subsystems in the Russian integral transit transport system

The paper focuses on the potential of the Russian Federation that has been `ordained' by its advantageous location and geographical position to play the role of the international transport transit corridor. To solve this fundamental task the authors suggest creating a unified integral transit transport system. On the basis of optimal transport multimodality and the concept of high-speed trans- and ultrasonic land vacuum maglev transport (VMLT) this system is supposed to integrate the whole complex of both existing and future innovative means of transport (`atmospheric', maglev, flying boats, underwater, ground effect vehicles, flying containers, airships, ESTOLAS, etc.). In the integral transit transport system vacuum VMLT principle can serve as a basis for implementing a number of economically efficient and breakthrough transport business concepts and technologies. Different transport systems are compared in terms of an integral transport system.