The Common Transport Policy is one of the three oldest fundamental community policies. An analysis of strategic documents and the results of the implementation of programs and actions has indicated that the Common Transport Policy defined in the 1957 Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community underwent significant changes between 1957 and 2010, both in terms of its goals, tasks, and principles, as well as its territorial scope and pace of development.
In a national context, transport policy is the activity of the state and its representative bodies, aimed at ensuring the quantitative and spatial availability of transport services with an optimal structure given the available investment and operational resources. From the perspective of the European integration process, in a spatial aspect, the Union’s transport policy refers to goals and tasks of a supranational scope. It is perceived as one of the main factors influencing the integration of European states, as it enables the realization of the fundamental assumptions of the European Union’s Single Internal Market, i.e., the free movement of goods, services, and people. The common transport policy is intended to ensure the economic and territorial cohesion of the EU through the coordinated development of transport infrastructure networks and to ensure the sustainable development of individual regions by facilitating the flow of goods and people within the single market. Its significance is particularly important for less developed regions, for which transport costs are a key element in competing for consumers of goods and services and for the location of investments. 2 The expansion of infrastructure and the effective functioning of the transport market can minimize or significantly mitigate the peripherality of such areas.
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Source: Logistyka Magazine