Economic aspects of developing chains of transport infrastructure

Abstract

Assessment of objective integrated investments into public transport sector as a very specific branch of economy should necessarily be evaluated as multiple indicators affecting different spheres of community, and the final solution should be drawn when all multi-criteria indicators are well appraised. Based on the EU methodical recommendations and the Lithuanian Manual for Road Investments the system of criteria indicators for evaluation of road and railway projects’ efficiency have been set. Solution of the optimised transport tasks with the view to onetime costs of investment into road and railway transport infrastructures for building connections with logistics centres and terminals (reconstruction, major repairs, etc.) as well as cargo flows (by roads and railways) is very important when choosing the most economically rational criterion. Economy based grounding of the optimal choice from all possible variants when solving specific tasks of the transport sector, depends on the economic expedience of the constructed subject. The main factors of effective usage of investments become apparent in the process of solving the task of road or railway network development optimisation.