The department conducts the following scientific and applied research:

• technical expert of the concession agreement for financing, construction and operation of the public railway infrastructure Obskaya — Salekhard — Nadym (Northern latitudinal railway);
• development of special technical regulations «Design of the Moscow-Kazan section of the high-speed Moscow-Kazan-Yekaterinburg railway with speeds up to 400 km/h»;
• methodological support of technological decisions on Russian Railways priority investment projects;
• research, technical passport development, reconstruction design of ground space infrastructure (railway) objects of the Baikonur and Vostochny Cosmodromes;
• computer technologies in railway design;
• improving technology and methods of non-public railway track design;
• studying physical and mechanical properties of materials and soils;
• history of railway transport and PGUPS scientific schools. Books about the history of transport, written by our scientists and other authors.

Here students study for a Specialist’s degree in 23.05.06 Construction of Railways, Bridges and Transport Tunnels, specialization Construction of Main Railways.