Transport Law. Its features and scope

Transport law is a complex diverse set of legal norms that are designed to regulate and regulate socio-economic relations in this area of human activity. The scope of this type of legislation concerns both legal entities (all kinds of transport enterprises, carrier companies, etc.), and individuals - their clients. Transport law, the field of activity of which is located at the junction of several legislative branches, unites the system of organizational and power relations governed by administrative law, and the material and property side of management, which, in turn, is regulated by the Civil Code.

This is the main feature and characteristic feature of this area of jurisprudence. Transport law is extremely important in the modern world with its oversaturation with a variety of communications and an over-intensive economic exchange. In the context of deep market relations, various vehicles play a key role both within the individual state and throughout the entire macroeconomic system of planetary scale. It is transportation (passenger and cargo) that perform the function of a kind of cementing factor of world social and economic relations.

In this aspect, a clear regulation of the whole complex structure is of prime importance. International transport law is called upon to carry out regulatory and regulatory functions. Without this, the collapse of the world economic system could come. The enormous scale of the movement of a wide variety of cargoes, combined with the all-encompassing character of this process, urgently requires detailed and detailed documentation and contractual support for transportation, as well as their clear legal regulation and prompt resolution of various controversial situations that invariably arise in such complex operations. Especially when it comes to international transportation through the territory of several countries, each of which has its own legislation. Transport law serves as a legal framework designed to bring all these differences to a common denominator.

The basic document of this legal branch is the contract on transportation, which clearly defines and fixes the obligations and rights of the parties. This most important agreement is represented by the institution of civil legislation, which reflects primarily the methods and tools that are characteristic of it. Depending on the nature of transportation and the specificity of the transported goods, various sections of this legal branch are applied: railway, water, air and sea.

Sources of transport law usually take such a legal form that most fully and accurately reflects the state law-making activity in this area of legislation and becomes binding for all participants involved in the process of cargo and passenger transportation. For example, in the territory of the Russian Federation such are the corresponding normative acts, constitutional laws, various presidential decrees, resolutions of the plenums of the Arbitration, the Supreme Court,