The current industrial era is gradually transforming into an ecological era, in which the main emphasis is placed on the ability to rationally manage natural resources. The basic assumptions of the ecological era include, among others: acceptance of the concept of sustainable development (eco-development), striving to protect the Earth’s main ecosystems, creating national ecological policies, mastering knowledge about managing
natural resources, and creating new, pro-ecological business organizations.
It should also be noted that when creating a national ecological policy, one of its main elements should be the concept of sustainable transport development. The transport business should take responsibility for the natural environment into account in its operations. Ecology, as a science studying the functioning and relationships between living organisms and the environment, is becoming a specific ideology for conducting modern business, increasingly overlapping with economics. Neither achieving high economic results regardless of ecology, nor the complete inviolability of the natural environment without regard for economic realities, are good solutions. Optimal solutions should take into account the rational needs of the economy while considering ecological requirements. This applies equally to transport as a field of economic activity and its impact on the natural environment.