Russian Freight Flights Time Prediction

We present a model for freight train time prediction based on station network analysis and specific feature engineering. We discuss the first pipeline to improve the freight flight duration prediction in Russia. While every freight company use only reference book made by RZD (Russian Railways) based on railroad distances with accuracy measured in days, we argue that one could predict the flight duration with error less than twenty hours while decreasing error to twelve hours for certain type of freight trains.