Railway infrastructure development 

The existing network of railway tracks in Slovakia is the result of approximately 150-year development of different national, political and economic conditions and for different economic and strategic aims and priorities. The geographic position of Slovakia in the Europe clearly confirms the actual importance of the position of railway tracks of the SR in the European transport infrastructure. Main international railway tracks are directly connected to railway tracks of Slovakia. The railway transport infrastructure is possible to describe by a rather high density of the network with an obsolete technology, whereby the technical basis of the railway infrastructure is not sufficiently ready for the changing conditions and structure of the transport market. This situation is caused particularly by the low technical level and quality...