The National Transport Development Programme (1996-2010)

Background

The National Transport Development Programme is a document of plan character that constitutes the activities (actions, tasks, types of activities) of economic, organizational, institutional nature and other-type of programmes falling within one system. It is worked out for 15 years period (years 1996-2000 and 2001-2010).

In order to solve the problems with regard to development of separate transport sectors the sector (roads, road transport, sea transport, railways transport, air transport, road safety) development state programmes have already been worked out. At these programmes the problems of complex nature were touched upon vaguely or completely ignored. For instance, transport statistics, transport system integration, etc.

Goal

The key goal of the National Transport Development Programme is to ensure the planned development of the efficient transport system in order to satisfy the constantly growing demand of the national economy and people for quantitative and qualitative transport that demonstrates safety, firm guarantees and reasonable costs.

Main objectives

• to maintain, to rehabilitate and to develop transport infrastructure (roads and bus terminals, railways and railway stations, sea ports, airports, airfields and air traffic control systems corresponding national social and economic requirements;
• to establish efficient passenger and goods transport system that could ensure the needs of people and the national economy for transport services;
• to expand international transport operations (export, import, transit) that could facilitate social welfare and economy rising; to form transport corridors that could provide more extensive possibilities for the state transport infrastructure, vehicles, the telecommunication system to join international transport operations and to facilitate the development of the national economy sectors, including that of tourism;
• to integrate transport systems: by interlinking the traffic network, constructing access roads for ports, railways and roads, ensuring coordination of sea ports, airports, bus stations and railway stations by developing integrated utility of traffic networks, coordination and data base,
  by ensuring correlation between modes of transport and developing combined transports,
  by developing logistics: putting in order and developing freight terminals, freight distribution centres and warehousing,
  by cooperating with the neighbouring countries and integrating into the European transport system;
• to ensure highly reliable traffic safety at all modes of transport, to guarantee transportation safety;
• to ensure establishment of planned environmentally friendly transport system developing transport infrastructure, regulating and aiding modes of transport and their flows, using high quality fuel and lubricants, minimizing environmental impact of all modes of transport, improving carriage of hazardous goods;
• to set up the transport information and statistics system that could enable to provide all transport service suppliers and customers with operative information in the most convenient and precise way but the respective services to gather and process statistical information; that could enable all transport related institutions and organizations to utilize these data in analysing, planning, forecasting and in passing decisions with regard to transport operations;
• to establish harmonized system of transport legislation and institutional regulations that could efficiently regulate the activities within the transport sector, eliminate legal vacuum as well as could provide legal basis for implementation of the State Programme on Development of Transport Sectors and the National Transport Development Programme;
• to guarantee for the transport sector a necessary number of qualified specialists and high standard practical and fundamental research works by improving professional training, qualification, re-training, academic education level, preparation of scientists and developing fundamental and applied sciences.

Sub-programmes

The National Transport Development Programme consists of the following Sub-programmes:

1. Maintenance and development of transport infrastructure;
2. Improvement of transport services;
3. International (export, import, transit) transport operations. Transport corridors, cooperation with neighbouring countries and integration into the European transport network;
4. Integration of transport systems;
5. Traffic safety;
6. Establishment of the environmentally friendly transport system;
7. Transport statistics and information infrastructure;
8. Transport legislation and institutional regulations;
9. Education and science.