Estimation of Transport and Logistics Infrastructure Impact of Regions in the Republic of Belarus on its Socio-Economic Indicators

Abstract. The paper substantiates the need to study a transport and logistics infrastructure of the regions in the context of its impact on socio-economic indicators for development of the Republic of Belarus.  The importance of this study is confirmed by goals and objectives for development of  the transport and logistics  systems of  the Republic  of  Belarus as outlined in the National Strategy for Sustainable Social and Economic Development of the Republic of Belarus for the period until 2030 and Republican Program for development of logistics systems and transit potential of the Republic of Belarus for the period of 2016-2020. The influence of nine indicators for  development of  the transport and logistics infrastructure in the regions of the country on six key socio-economic indicators such as gross domestic product, investment in fixed assets, revenues of consolidated budgets, average wage level, number of gainfully employed persons,  number of  registered unemployed persons has been investigated in the paper. A multiple regression analysis has been used to assess a relationship between dependent and independent variables, that is a step selection method. All the calculations have been carried out while using the IBM SPSS Statistics 20. Indicators of correlation between dependent and independent variables have been calculated and relationships between the variables have been determined in the paper. Validity of the obtained results has been checked with the help of the Student's test. The calculations have made it possible to identify key indicators for a transport and logistics infrastructure in six regions of the country which have the greatest impact on the social and economic development of the Republic of Belarus and can be used to analyze an investment attractiveness of the regions.

1. About approval of the Republican development of lo-gistic system and transit potential for 2016-2020: Resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, dated on July 18, 2016 No.560. National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus. Available at: http://www.pravo.by/document/?guid=3871&p0=C21600560 (in Russian).

2. Prabir De. (2007) The Importance of Trade Costs: a Gravi-ty Model Applications. 3rd ARTNeT Capacity Building Workshop: UNESCAP, Bangkok, 26–30 March 2007. Available at: http://artnet.unescap.org/tid/artnet/mtg/cb3_d2s3dea.pdf (acessed 01 March 2019).

3. Golskaya Yu. N., Kouznetsova I. A. (2010) Evaluation of transport influence on socio-economic develop-ment of regions. Izvestiya Baikalskogo Gosudar-stvennogo Universiteta = Bulletin of Baikal State University, (5), 61–64 (in Russian).

4. Roslyakova N. A. Evaluation of inter-relation between parameters of transport complex in the region and its economic growth. Vestnik SibADI = The Russian Au-tomobile and Highway Industry Journal, 33 (5), 156–162 (in Russian).

5. Statistical yearbooks on development of regions in the Re-public of Belarus for 2007-2017. Available at: http://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statisti-ka/publications/izdania/public_compilation/index_10915/ (accessed 01 March 2019) (in Russian).

6. Transport and Communication in the Republic of Bela-rus, 2018. National Statistical Committee of the Re-public of Belarus Available at: http://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statisti-ka/publications/izdania/public_compilation/index_9289/ (accessed 01 March 2019) (in Russian).

7. Company user guide for operation with module Statistics Base в IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0. (2011) IBM Corporation, USA. 1989. 363.

8. Popov P., Miretskiy I., Ivut R., Lapkouskaya P. (2016) Model for formation of regional warehouse infra-structure. Novosti nauki i tekhnologiy = News of Sci-ence and Technologies, 37 (2), 24–28 (in Russian).

9. Popov P., Miretskiy I., Polkovnikov A. A. (2017) On optimization of regional logistics infrastructure. Logistika = Logistics, (7), 37–39 (in Russian).

10. Lapkovskaya P. I. (2017) The method of formation of the logistics system of the building materials industry enterpris-es. Novosti nauki i tekhnologiy = News of Science and Technologies, 40 (1), 54–60 (in Russian).

11. Lapkovskaya P. I. (2017) Methodology for assessing of the micrologistical system of building materials industry enter-prises. Novosti nauki i tekhnologiy = News of Science and Technologies, 42 ( ), 22–29 (in Russian).

12. Ivut R. B., Popov P. V., Miretskiy I. Yu. (2016) Designing of an automobile fleet network. Nauka i tekhnika = Science and Technique, (5), 442–446 (in Russian).