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Transport policy is one of the basic tools shaping the transport system in the country. Transport is a particularly important area of economy which affects the formation of the quality of life of the whole society, has a huge impact on the natural environment, and at the same time is a special element of integration of the member countries of the European Union. This area has long been covered by comprehensive planning activities, undertaken both at the level of the European Union and at the level of the Member States. The effects of these activities are transport development strategies and programs, transport programs covering particular fields of transport (road transport, air transport and water transport), as well as detailed regulations related to selected issues.At the European level, transport policy is shaped primarily in primary law. In the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, a common transport policy was identified, and then its goals and means were determined. Secondary law is a huge number of documents of various nature: regulations, directives, decisions, resolutions, recommendations, opinions, recommendations. European transport policy is also shaped by some documents that are not binding, in particular by the so-called green and white books.In Poland, different categories of documents also appear at the national level. Prospects for transport development are set out in the Transport Development Strategy. This document indicates current transport weaknesses limiting development opportunities, and then proposes directions of intervention to limit these weaknesses. The next planning document is the State Transport Policy which assumes an improvement of the quality of the transport system and its development in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. The purpose of the article is to establish the legal basis for shaping the state's transport policy and to indicate the current conditions of this policy.
Keywords: Transport policy, strategies and programs, sustainable development© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.