1 from 12 Marcin HAJDUL 1 Instytut Logistyki i Magazynowania ul. Estkowskiego 6, 61-755 Poznań Marcin.Hajdul@ilim.poznan.pl Model of coordination of transport processes according to the concept of sustainable development Summary Sustainable development means that it is possible to organize current needs in the way which does not eliminate the possibility of organizing the same needs in future. It is the ability to maintain a balance of a certain process or state in any system. In business activities it is the ability to maintain a balance between three areas: economical, ecological and social one. In this article the possibility of exploiting concept of sustainable development in organizing transport processes is presented. Additionally, the model of coordination of transport processes within companies is discussed, as well as its pros and cons. Key words: efficiency, transport process, co-modality, sustainability, electronic platform 1. INTRODUCTION In the age of rapid economic changes companies are forced to continuously search for ways of cost rationalization. For manufacturing and distribution companies reduction of logistics costs and in particular transport ones is the most important. In order to achieve it an analysis and change of the way of transport process fulfillment as well as being open to new logistics management concepts are necessary. Obviously, when implementing the changes, the fact that transport organization is not the source of profit for the above mentioned manufacturing and distribution companies should be also taken into account. The activity is supposed to support the core business, i.e. manufacturing and sales of goods. Therefore, the companies make, after transport service providers, the second group of transport process actors [12]. Transport process is a complex of organizational, trading and executive actions. Their main goal is to move goods and/or people from one or a few points of origin (shipment) to one or a few points of destination (delivery) with the use of certain transport means [8]. The difference between transport process and carrying process also needs to be pointed out. The carrying process is a part of the whole transport process. Detailed relations are presented in the figure 1. Therefore, transport can be considered a bridge between buyer and seller [6].