Politics as the art of governing a state is a very difficult and complex endeavor. This is even more true for economic policy, of which transport policy is a part in the current economic reality of Poland. Modern transport policy faces enormous challenges related to the vision of 21st-century transport, outlined, incidentally, in the White Paper of March 2011. In this context, it should be stated that transport policy is a process of making social choices regarding projects for the development and functioning of transport from the point of view of various criteria (for example, ecology or mobility), but also the processes of influence exerted by stakeholder groups interested in specific solutions.
It is therefore a game in which many players participate, and whose interests may be mutually contradictory. It is impossible, therefore, to argue with the thesis that it is much more difficult to achieve such a coherent policy in the field of intermodal transport, the essence of which is the multitude of links in the transport chain participating in the transport process and the diversity of interests, while needing to ensure the utility of these links and the partnership of the entire chain in the context of meeting customer requirements. Therefore, one should support those initiatives that serve to build a common vision for transport, including the integration of transport solutions and innovative solutions, and be able to find in them impulses for the development of one’s own initiatives that are beneficial from the point of view of target solutions.
The European Union, in terms of transport policy, aims at the balanced economic development of individual modes of transport, the development of its ecological forms, the liberalization of the rail transport market, and the removal of technical barriers hindering free rail traffic across the borders of member states. These directions are considered priorities in the common transport policy. Such a priority was the sustainable development strategy of the European Union adopted in 2001, which outlined that “sustainable transport policy should address the problems of increasing traffic, congestion, noise, air pollution, and encourage the use of environmentally friendly modes of transport while ensuring the full internalization of social and environmental costs.”
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Source: Logistyka Magazine