№ 4/2017

Ekon Ukr. 2017 (4): 56–66

PROBLEMS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DECENTRALIZATION

УДК 332.135/656.022.83

JEL:

HRECHANA Svitlana¹, POPOVA Iryna²

¹Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the NAS of Ukraine, Research ID : http://www.researcherid.com/rid/ https://publons.com/researcher/AAC-5725-2019/ https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57214118873
OrcID ID : https://orcid.org/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4669-3258
²Luhansk branch of the Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the NAS of Ukraine, Research ID : http://www.researcherid.com/rid/
OrcID ID : https://orcid.org/

DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT LINKS WITHIN INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION

Transport links occupy one of the priority places in ensuring the effective functioning of the economy. This causes their important role in intensifying the interregional cooperation. This requires reliable information about quality of transport infrastructure ensuring the effective links. Thus, the purpose of the article is to analyze the transport links in the context of the regions of Ukraine to determine the most favorable conditions for interregional cooperation.
It is suggested to consider transport links within interregional cooperation as the system of socio-economic relations of objects, which provides the whole range of transportation, creating and regulating the conditions necessary for the smooth functioning of economic relationships and interaction of subjects and participants of regional economy.
It is proved that the current state of transport market and links between its participants is unsatisfactory. Low scores of various experts about quality of transport infrastructure in Ukraine and in the context of regions are given. The rating of the worst roads in Ukraine according to estimations of users is presented. It is proved that the formation of transport links is positively influenced by rail transportation while the condition of highways, ports and aviation infrastructure reduces their effectiveness.
Analysis of indicators of transport infrastructure of interregional cooperation in the territorial context is performed. The main indicators are identified: density of public paved roads and railways, deterioration of public roads and railway tracks, the share of roads of the first category within all public paved roads, ratio of the length of paved roads to the total number of filling stations, volume of freight and passenger traffic. Based on the results of assessment of these indicators, regions by the following categories were grouped: quality of railway and road infrastructure and traffic volume. This made it possible to identify regions with the most and least attractive conditions for the development of transport links within interregional cooperation.

Keywords:transport links, interregional cooperation, development, transport infrastructure, indicators, quality, cargo transportation, passenger traffic

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The article was received by the Editorial staff on December 27 , 2016

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