TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SYSTEM OF CIVIL LAW ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONS: EXPERIENCE OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Author(s): Kolodub G.V.
Rubric: Relevant issues of private law
DOI: 10.21777/2587-9472-2026-1-37-46
Release: 2026-1 (49)
Pages: 37-46
Keywords: transport infrastructure, transport law, property relations, organizational relations, methodology of law, subject of civil law, comparative legal analysis
Annotation: In contemporary legal doctrine, the category of «transport infrastructure» is often employed in a fragmented manner – in object-based, managerial, or public-regulatory terms – which hampers its holistic conceptualization as a complex legal phenomenon and obscures its place within the system of civil-law organizational relations. This article examines the legal nature of transport infrastructure through a comparative analysis with energy infrastructure as a typologically related network-based legal formation. The methodological framework combines systemic and functional approaches, comparative legal analysis, and the provisions of the theory of organizational civil-law relations. It is demonstrated that, although transport and energy infrastructures belong to the same general type of network formations, they differ significantly in the mechanisms ensuring their stability: energy infrastructure is characterized by a model of public-law centralization, whereas transport infrastructure operates as a distributed system of contractual and legal coordination. It is substantiated that contracts governing the use of transport infrastructure perform primarily a coordinating function, ensuring the alignment of participants’ actions and the integration of public-law and private-law regulatory mechanisms. In the text of the article, the Russian Federation is abbreviated as RF.
Bibliography: Kolodub G.V. TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SYSTEM OF CIVIL LAW ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONS: EXPERIENCE OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS // Journal of Legal Sciences. – 2026. – № 1 (49). – С. 37-46. doi: 10.21777/2587-9472-2026-1-37-46