Glushchenko V.
Professor of the Department of SMART Technologies, Moscow Polytechnic University, Russia, Moscow

Abstract
The subject of the article is the methodological provisions of the general theory of transport systems; the object of the article is the transport system; the purpose of the article is to increase the efficiency of the processes of designing and restructuring transport systems; to achieve this goal, the article solves the following tasks: the theoretical provisions of the general theory of the development and functioning of transport systems (transportology) are developed; a comparative analysis of the organizational structures of innovative activities in transport engineering; the specifics of innovative entrepreneurship in the conditions of the global crisis are described; the provisions of the criterion approach in the theory of the firm are being developed; it is shown that the formation of clusters and technological platforms as new organizational forms of innovation development is associated with the need to decentralize decision-making and more fully take into account the interests of all participants in the innovation process, including individuals and small innovative firms; the research methods in the article are historical, logical and system analysis; synthesis; firm theory; theory of hierarchical systems; the scientific novelty of the article is connected with the formation of the methodology of design and restructuring of transport systems

Keywords: transport, science, analysis, innovation, structure, theory, firm, globalization, market, criterion, crisis, analysis, methodology