Assessment of the Impact of the Transport and Logistics System on Resource Efficiency, Key Regional Economic Indicators and Economic Sustainability

The objective of the study is to determine the degree of dependence between the regional transport and logistics system and the main regional economic indicators and their impact on resource-saving and the level of economic sustainability. The research methods are based on the use of a comparative analysis of approaches used to determine the characteristics of transport and logistics systems, retrospective, correlation and regression, morphological, abstract logical, theoretical and empirical, and structural analysis. The study has resulted in the analysis of approaches to defining and assessing transport and logistics system from the position of the spatial location of transport and logistics infrastructure facilities in the context of their impact on spatial organisation of productive forces; a retrospective, comparative and correlation and regression analysis of indicators characterising the regional transport and logistics system, economic indicators of GRP and retail turnover; evaluation of the analytical dependence of the region’s economic indicators on the state of the regional transport and logistics system; rationale of the dependence of the level of economic sustainability and resource-saving on the development of the transport and logistics infrastructure. The results of the study may be used to determine the level of influence of the transport and logistics system on regional economic indicators of various industries, which are indicators of their economic sustainability within the framework of the adopted regional strategy for planning the spatial distribution of transport and logistics infrastructure facilities.