Integrated Transport Safety System as an element of the National Security Strategy

Ensuring the safety of citizens is a fundamental task of the state. To this end, the State undertakes numerous activities in which government institutions are constantly involved in the implementation. They create a national security system whose effective functioning provides the state and its citizens with adequate protection against threats. In the text, the author presents the Integrated Transport Safety System as a team of interrelated elements that implement the objectives as a whole. The ever-increasing globalisation and the long-term objectives set out in the strategic documents pose challenges to ensuring the safety of citizens, faced with the ever-increas-ing threats posed by the use of modern technologies, including in the field of transport. Actions undertaken within the European Union to create a trans-European transport network include air, road, rail, maritime, and urban transport, as well as inland waterway transport, multimodal transport, intelligent transport systems, safety, and State aid rules. The author points out the multidimensional nature of the modern transport system, the use of new technologies that promote the emergence of new threats that could have negative consequences for national security. The Integrated Transport Safety System and its various components play a key role in the functioning of the state and the lives of its citizens. As a result of events caused by the forces of nature or as a consequence of human actions, it can be destroyed, damaged, and its action can be disrupted, which may endanger the lives and property of citizens. The integration process is primarily about people and how new threats are perceived.