SOCIO-ECONOMIC ROLE OF TRANSPORT AS A THEORETICAL PREREQUISITE F-OR TRANSPORT ACTIVITY DETERMINATION
The paper defines the socio - economic role of transport as a sector of economic activity. The author stresses the importance of the main theoretical categories that determine the transport activity: transport system, transport infrastructure, the system of transport. Much attention is given to economic and legal regulation of transport activity in Ukraine. The author substantiates the feasibility of transport types coordination as well as the principles of integration and functionality of a transport system and socio-economic, organizational and technological unity of elements that constitute a transport system.