Management Decisions on Optimizing Regional Educational Infrastructure and Ensuring Its Transport Accessibility

Most of the Russia's territory – with its focal small living settlements - does not have sufficient educational infrastructure. Schools teach children living in the neighboring settlements where the construction and operation of schools do not prove reasonable. The authors focus on the challenges faced by the developing countries: the challenge is between the imperfection of educational environment and the need to ensure an adequate level of educational results. Russia pays special attention to the so-called ‘advanced special economic zones' (ASEZ): the increasing flow of investments will lead to a shift of population between ASEZ and the adjacent regions, and this will require managerial decisions on changes in the educational infrastructure. As the variety of transport and residence conditions in these regions is large, the decision can hardly be limited to one criterion when deciding on building a new school. As a novelty, a complex of criteria for making such managerial decisions is considered based on mathematical modeling and analysis of legal acts and scientific publications.