Development of Sustainable Transport in Ukraine: Evolution of the Concept, Actions and Indicators

The article reviews and singles out four stages for the concept of sustainable transport in Ukraine to be established as follows: the first is to shape the sustainable development key principles; the second is to draft the millennia objectives by 2015; the third is to identify the sustainable development key objectives by 2030; and the fourth is to focus the Ukraine’s transport policy on the Green Deal. Each of the stages evaluates the key strategic documents, laying down the institutional grounds for the development of sustainable transport. A system of indicators is produced to assess the sustainable development of road transport, thus enabling the monitoring of transformational developments and, following its findings, adopting decisions facilitating the national economy's sustainable development. Key objectives are determined for Ukraine to ensure the development of its sustainable transport by observing the effort towards integration into Europe in the light of the EU Agreement and Green Deal, which constitute the underlying concept for the changes to make the EU a climate-neutral entity by reducing by 2015 the CO₂ emissions, including those originating from road transport activities, which account for a major proportion of such emissions..