The transport policy between regulation and liberalisation
An active academic debate on whether the state should interfere on the transport market and influence the development of transport has been going on in the developed countries for quite a long time now. On one side, there are the advocates of of the idea that the transport market has to be regulated, on the other, there are the promoters of its liberalisation (deregulation). In the practice of these countries so far the transport sector has been an area in which the state interferes to a smaller or larger extent. The debate on the basic dilemma of the transport policy is today especially heated in the so-called transition countries, which abandoned the socialist paradigm and oriented themselves to developing a market oriented economy. The facts the creators of the transport policy in the Western Balkan countries, the transition countries, must not ignore are that, firstly, the transport market in the European Union area is liberated to a large extent, and, secondly, due to the insufficient development of economy in the Balkan countries, it is not easy to create and implement the transport policy that would be in harmony with the philosophy of transport development in the developed European countries, the EU members.