Transport Development Programme
Transport is an integral part of the service provision background of the economy and society.
Its benefits include ensuring accessibility,
balancing territorial disparities, enabling the mobility of people,
goods and services, its economic and regional development multiplier
effect, and it contributes to GDP directly as well. At the same time it
imposes several expenses on the society, present on a community level –
and not or only partially being compensated. The primary objective is to
maximize the benefits of transport, minimizing the social burdens at
the same time.
Several European economic corridors cross Hungary, and therefore the New
Széchenyi Plan handles the opportunities resulting from this transit
role as a priority, in the case of both goods and passenger transport.
We should develop the combined transport solutions, such as linking
railway and public road transport, and should also develop an electronic
toll payment system based on actual use, instead of the present
flat-rate system.