Dylematy zrównoważonego rozwoju infrastruktury transportu w Polsce

Krystyna Wojewódzka-Król

Abstract

The role of infrastructure in the socio-economic development causes that decisionstaken in terms of its development will be in the long run affect the realization of the ideaof sustainable development. The specific features of the transport infrastructure, such asa long period of creation, high investment costs, long life cause, that the change in the directionsof transport infrastructure development will require time and considerable financialresources and often can mean the loss associated with the necessity of completingthe investments, which were not good for sustainable development concept. Therefore,the strategy of the transport infrastructure development requires careful consideration ofall the positive and negative effects of possible choices, so that the decisions were the bestfor sustainable development of transport and the economy. The aim of this article is toidentify the most controversial areas of current development of transport infrastructurein Poland and the evaluation them from the perspective of sustainable transport development.