DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IN CONDITIONS OF MARTIAL STATE AS AN OBJECT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Abstract

The article examines the level of spatial inequalities in the development of transport infrastructure in the regions of Ukraine as an object of public administration under martial law. It is shown that the prewar transport infrastructure of Ukraine was characterized by significant regional heterogeneity, which was manifested in differences between regions in the volume of freight and passenger transportation, the availability of transport services, the role of road, rail, sea and urban transport, as well as the concentration of production, logistics and service functions. It is established that after the start of the full-scale war with the Russian Federation, these inequalities did not disappear, but acquired a new functional meaning. In fact, some traditionally powerful industrial and transport regions lost transport accessibility due to hostilities, occupation, destruction of roads, bridges and railway junctions, while the western and central regions strengthened their role in ensuring foreign trade, population evacuation, business relocation, humanitarian logistics and internal redistribution of flows. The dynamics of freight and passenger transportation in 2024-2025 were analyzed, which indicates a partial adaptation of the transport system to the conditions of martial law. It was determined that the spatial inequality of the development of the transport infrastructure of the regions of Ukraine in modern conditions is multilayered and is formed under the influence of the pre-war heterogeneity of the transport infrastructure, military destruction, changes in logistics routes, blocking of part of the maritime logistics, closing of airspace, overloading of western border crossings and the growth of the role of railway and road transport. Particular attention is paid to the sectoral asymmetry of the development of transport infrastructure by regions of Ukraine, which is manifested in the different dependence of regions on individual types of transport and in the unequal ability of territories to ensure economic activity, population mobility and the stability of logistics chains. In modern conditions, the transport infrastructure of the regions of Ukraine should be considered not only as a technical or economic system, but as a strategic object of public administration, economic stability and national security. Overcoming the spatial inequality of transport infrastructure development by regions of Ukraine requires a differentiated approach from public administration entities: for frontline and deoccupied territories - priority restoration of basic accessibility and security; for western border regions - expansion of capacity, development of multimodal terminals and transition to TEN-T standards; for central regions - strengthening of distribution, bridge and railway nodes; for southern regions - restoration of port, Danube and maritime logistics. It is this approach that will make it possible to combine emergency recovery, regional balance, European integration and long-term modernization of the transport infrastructure of Ukraine.