Transport policy includes various aspects of government regulation of transport and related industries. Decision-making in transport policy must consider a wide range of factors and evaluate options for the consequences of adoption of certain decisions based on various criteria, such as cost, environmental impact, and social effects. Two widely used decision-making tools in transport policy are multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA).The objective of the study was to select decision support methods for transport policy that consider aspects other than monetary or hardly formalised onesAs a practical experiment, the study selected and ranked projects currently considered promising, per as they correspond to a given target using T Saat/s analytic hierarchy process. Several criteria developed within the framework of the study are proposed for the purpose of applied assessment of the pool of projects and their prioritisation.Application of such criteria and AHP allowed to develop a new applied tool for evaluating projects for subsequent use in the system of state administration of the transport industry. The study concludes that although CBA and MCDA methods have their strengths and weaknesses, the choice of method should depend on the specific context of the project.

The transport policy of the state is an integral part of its economic and spatial policy. The relevance of the clarification of the content of the term «transport policy» is conditioned by the attention of the state to the issues of strategic planning in the field of transport. In Russia, it was clearly evidenced by the approval in 2021 by the Government of the Russian Federation of the updated Transport Strategy of the country until 2030 with a forecast for the period until 2035.The article reviews the definitions of transport policy in the scientific literature: its economic, environmental, technical, geopolitical and other aspects are considered. At the same time, the main emphasis of the study was on the economic factors of transport policy: the materials of economic theories (spatial development and distribution of productive forces), decision theories and methods for assessing the effectiveness of investments in transport infrastructure were considered. The definitions and the range of their application are specified. Also, the components of the transport policy have been established and a range of tools of its implementation has been defined, incl. financial, regulatory, etc. Based on the data obtained, a structure of the relationship between transport policy and economic growth was compiled, social and other components to economic aspects were identified.

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