White Books of the Departament of Transportation

 White Books of Transportation are:

officail documents for non-specialists, taking decisions on the issues of investments into road infrastructure LACONICALLY, CONVINCINGLY, VIVIDLY about roads and transportation, their problems and perspectives about political, economical and investment mechanisms achieving regional goals by means of transport

In book you will find:

Substantiation of investment into transport under the conditions of transition economy transport as a generator of the new conditions for regional development

	ratio between traditional and new methods of investment planning
	provision of the regional interests priority
	Minimal Transport Standard as the basis for regional transport policy

  Estimation of the development level of the United Transportation Network

	traditional indicators
	system indicators

	-Integral Transport Accessibility (measured in hours, shows average time of moving from each settlement in a region to any settlement, considering their number)
	-Connectedness Probability (shows the probability of reaching any point in the network from each point in case of losing connection between each link in turn)
	-Level of Transport Service Differentiation (indicates, how much transport conditions vary for different part of region)
	-Level of the Transport Discrimination of the Population (propotion of the population, forced to spend over-normative time for obtaining the socially guaranteed minimum of the services, which comes into conflict with the natural biorithms of people and making them hostages due to the lack of good roads)
	-Lost Free-Time Fund - the absolute non-productive expenditures of time of the population due to the poor transportation conditions
	-Losses from the underdeveloped transport infrastructure

Role of road (transportation) in social and economical development

	transportational capacity of the economy
	economical equivalents of transport accessibility
	external effects of the project - benefits for those not directly affected by it
	evaluation of road contribution to GPD increase of separate subbrunches

Financial situation and strategies of transport development

	sources of investment
	strategies of transport development

	- "To save what we've got"
	- "To prevent emergency situations"
	- "To the regional centre - throughout a year"
	- "Region - is a part of Russia"

	scenarios of developmant of transport sections
	optimal volume of funds
	divergency between social and economic effectiveness
	balanced tax policy on transport

Effectiveness of investments into transport

	road curves
	alternative investment programs on the basis of international indices of effectiveness

	scenarios of developmant of transport sections
	optimal volume of funds
	divergency between social and economic effectiveness
	balanced tax policy on transport

" Transport and poverty "

	Relation between " level of transport development " and " index of human development "
	The schemes of compensations to people living in those areas where the transport conditions are worse more then twicely