Abstract
The article deals with research on the relationship between the performance of road and rail freight transport and transport infrastructure...
Highlights
Transport is an indispensable basis for the support of almost all sectors of the economy
What is the correlation between the development of the transport infrastructure and the growth of the freight transport performance in road and rail transport? Growth in transport performance is related to the growth of gross domestic product [19]
It can be deduced that the dependence between the freight transport performance and the road freight infrastructure is weaker every consecutive year
Summary
Transport is an indispensable basis for the support of almost all sectors of the economy. Transport services are important for economic growth and society development [2]. It has a wider effect on microeconomic factors of productivity such as the labor market, domestic and international trade, investment and innovation. In connection to the development of societies and intensification of international relations owing to the globalization processes, the importance of transport as a factor for economic and social development has enhanced [3]. Many studies state that transport infrastructure is one of the most important factors for the regions’ development, which enables the creation of new businesses or supports contacts with other regions. Well-developed transport infrastructure can be seen as a precondition for regional economic integration. Kostrzewski countries? These two-research questions were taken into consideration by authors and are discussed in this contribution
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