Integration of national transport complexes into the regional transport system: analysis of forms and mechanisms
The article describes the theoretical and methodological basis of the integration of national transport systems in the regional transport system. Such forms of integration as the hub, global logistics systems, multimodal transport and international transport corridors are analyzed in detail. The approaches of various researchers to the concept of "hub" are revealed, the criteria and conditions to which it must satisfy are presented. The main trends in the modern world economy, which served as the basis for the basis of the provision on the need for quality development of the transport system, are revealed. The author presents and analyzes the options (models) of integration of national transport systems into the regional transport system. This is a trade and intermediary model, production and investment model. The role and place of Russia in the regional integration processes is especially noted. The paper concludes that transport integration is characterized by both forms based on cooperation and its relatively new sectoral forms. Such types of integration as horizontal and vertical are considered, in the latter, in turn, the ascending and descending are distinguished. The article notes that the transport system, as an infrastructure industry, can serve the processes of both formal and real integration and internationalization. However, its self-developing and stimulating role in the national economy is to overcome the contradictions between the need for effective development of the national economy within the framework of the modern international division of labour and the limited opportunities available to the country for this purpose. To assess the economic effects of the implementation of the process of integration of national transport systems in the work proposed to use an optimized inter-regional model.