Contemporary State of the Transport System in Bulgaria

Desislava Simeonova1*, & Dimitar Simeonov2
1,2 Department of Geography, Faculty of History, St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
DOI – http://doi.org/10.37502/IJSMR.2022.5317

Abstract

The movement of people, goods and information has always been one of the main components of human societies. Modern economic processes are associated with a significant increase in mobility and higher levels of accessibility. Although this trend can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution, it accelerated significantly in the second half of the twentieth century, when trade was liberalized, economic clusters emerged, and the comparative advantages of global labor and resources began to be used more effectively. This article makes a modern analysis of the transport system in Bulgaria, considering the main modes of transport in quantitative and qualitative indicators ant the factors and features that form it.

Keywords: Transport system, Transport-geographical location, Trans-European road network, Transport accessibility

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