Multicriteria approach for evaluation and justification of the transport network territories development priorities of superior regional scale
The main tasks of the development of social and economic systems of regions and territories traditionally include the organization of their interaction, which requiresthe creation of certain conditions, one of which is the creation of transport and logistics systems that exceed the regional scale. The development of territories and the functioning within their territorial transport and logistics systems (TLS) is implemented through the formation of network forms of interaction. The article reveals the aspects of transport networksfrom the point of view of the spatial paradigm and identifiesthe main priority directions of their development taking into account the modern requirements of society.Dynamic TLS are considered by analyzing the changesin the elements of its network representation (in nodes and arcs, taking into account theirfeatures) and their subsequent management.The studied documents of the Federal and regional levelsconfirm the need to predictthe development of TLS and formulate the necessary system of criteria for assessing the degree of achievementof systemic and independent goals of the socio-economic system of the region as a wholeand its TLS in particular.To obtain objective assessments of the current state of the TLS, the prospects for its development and impact on the competitiveness of the entire territory, a multi-criteriaapproach and the formation of a system of criteria characterizing various aspects ofthe functioning of the TLS areused. This multi-criteria assessment is carried out by systematizing a variety of social,economic and environmental functions, reducing their Pareto-optimization and findingthe «ideal point».