Ownerless Automobile Roads in Russia

Abstract

This article is dedicated to a review of ownerless roads as a complex organizational, legal, and economic problem. Current judicial and management practice only takes notice of this problem’s local manifestations. From our point of view, ownerless roads are a large-scale, systemic phenomenon. This analysis is based on a review of the scientific literature, regulatory acts, statistical data, and case studies extracted from the local media. The non-registration of roads does not have pronounced administrative, territorial, geographic, or regional-economic particularities. Ownerlessness is primarily caused by the long-lived and demotivating system used to financially support road activity, procedural complexities, and unregulated land relations in the Russian Federation.