The main directions of scientific research:

• the development of advanced technologies for the operation of the station and stations of railway, railway sections and directions;
• the improvement of the planning system, operational management and analysis of freight and passenger traffic;
• the optimization of car flow organization systems;
• the automation and intellectualization of processes of operational management of operational work at stations, nodes and the railway and information provision of the control and management of cargo transportation;
• the feasibility study of the use and increase of throughput capacity of the railway infrastructure and assessment of resource requirements;
• the development of safety management systems in the field of the transportation process for divisions of the railway;
• the development of logistics technologies and technological processes for the transportation of goods by rail.

Quantitative and qualitative composition

Ther are 3 Ph.D.s  of Engineering Sciences participate in scientific research; at present, 4 postgraduates and 16 undergraduates study in postgraduate and graduate programs.

Key Scientific Results

The results of scientific research were used in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Railways (typical technological processes), during the reconstruction of the sorting stations of the Belarusian, Moscow, Donetsk, North Caucasus and other railways, in the design and survey institutes Kievgiprotrans, Mosgiprotrans, Dneprohyprotrans and others. The results of scientific research on the development of road automated control centers were reported at the Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of Railways (twice), at the technical councils of the Donetsk and Belarusian Railways, at the boards of the Ministry of Railways. Based on the results of work, for the first time in the USSR, automated dispatch control centers were created in Donetsk, Minsk (ADC) and the main ADC in Moscow. Now more modern systems work on all roads of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and other countries. Currently, the main objects of implementation of the results are the Belarusian Railway and the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

The defense of dissertations in these areas

• The two academicians of the Academy of Transport of the Russian Federation has been prepared;
• There are 11 Ph.D.s of Engineering Sciences were trained;
• Over 300 articles and monographs has been published.

The most significant results of scientific activity

• the monograph «Эксплуатационная надежность станций» (М, «Транспорт», 1986 г., с. 247),
• the monograph «Автоматизированные диспетчерские центры управления эксплуатационной работой железных дорог» (М, «Транспорт», 1986, с. 288,, the first in the USSR and other countries on this problem);
• the textbook «Управление эксплуатационной работой и качеством перевозок на железнодо-рожном транспорте» - соавтор титульный редактор (М, «Транспорт», 1994 г., с. 543), approved as a textbook by the Office of Personnel and Educational Institutions of the Ministry of Railways of the Russian Federation, by which was used by transport universities CIS;
• the textbook  «Электронные вычислительные машины и их применение на транспорте» (издательство «Вышейшая школа», Минск, 1971, с. 224, в соавторстве), approved by the Ministry of Railways of the USSR;
• the teoretical justification and development centers of automated control of Donetsk (1982), of Belorussian and other railways of the CIS countries, which became the basis of the ongoing reorganization of the management hierarchy in railway transport;
• the theory and methodology of the railway development of the stations were used by design and survey institutes and railways to carry out the reconstruction of the Donetsk, of the Debaltsevsky, of the Rostov railway junctions and a number of other large stations of the Belarusian,, of the Moscow, of the South-West, of the North and  of the other railways;
• the standard technological processes of railway stations and others.

The scientific publications in foreign journals

Over 200 articles have been published in foreign publications, including in the magazines «Железнодорожный транспорта», «Вестник ВНИИЖТа», «Мир транспорта», «Вестник ДИ-ИТа», «Автоматика, телемеханика и связь», etc. There are publications in editions Russian , Ukraine, Lithuania, Bulgaria, etc.

The scientific connections

With domestic scientific organizations:

• the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University GSU - joint publications in domestic and foreign scientific journals, a joint publication of teaching aids, consultations for graduate students and doctoral students;
• the BNTU - joint publications in domestic and foreign scientific journals;
• the BELZHELDORPROJECT - joint execution of scientific joint publications in domestic and foreign scientific publications of research; training of specialists in the magistracy;
• the BSU - peer review of the results of scientific work.

With the international scientific community:

• the MIIT (Moscow) - joint publications in domestic and foreign scientific journals, a joint publication of a textbook, consultations for graduate students and doctoral students of the department;
• Transport universities of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan - mutual peer review of the results of scientific works, participation in scientific conferences, mutual invitation of teachers to give lectures;
• the NIIAS (Moscow) - mutual review of the results of scientific works, participation in scientific conferences, mutual invitation of teachers to give lectures; consultation of graduate students and doctoral students of the department;
• the VNIIZHT (Moscow) - mutual review of the results of scientific works, participation in scientific conferences; consultation of graduate students of the department.

The public acceptance

• The two academicians of the Academy of Transport of the Russian Federation was prepared;
• The research team led by Full Professor P. S. Gruntov was awarded the VDNKh medals in 1982 for developments in the field of railway control automation.
• The work "Intensive technology of coal transportation railway directions of Donbass" by Advanced Doctor in Engineering Sciences Full Professor P. S. Gruntov was awarded the State Prize of the USSR Council of Ministers.