Problemy Transportu i Logistyki

The aim of the study is to show the importance of railway transport infrastructure as an element of sustain-able development of the country. The study presents the state of railway transport in Poland and the anal-ysis of the assumptions of the Sustainable Transport Development Strategy Project until 2030, addressed to consultations by the Ministry of Infrastructure on 9 November 2018. The research results presented in the study were conducted using the representative method in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) No 70/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2012 on statistical reports. In 2017, a total of 239.5 million tons of cargo was transported by rail, ie by 7.6% more than in 2016. Al-though research results from year to year are increasingly improved by rail transport, however, they can not be fully satisfying. The share of rail freight transport should be much larger. The draft of the Strategy for Sustainable Transport Development until 2030 assumes an increase in road transport by a minimum of 196 million tons in 2015–2030, while railway transport increases by at least 30 million tons in 2015–2030, which is 6.5 times less than in road transport. Balancing the costs of railway infrastructure with the car in-frastructure can only slightly to improve the competitiveness of the railways. Therefore, it is indispensable to undertake such activities unrelated to rail transport charges, which will improve the competitiveness of rail transport in relation to road transport.