Influence of environmental solutions on road construction costs in Poland

New transport routes irreversibly interfere with the environment. The construction of transport routes negatively affects the acoustic climate, landscape, surface waters, underground waters, air, soil, animate nature, causes fragmentation of habitats. Each one of these negative impacts can be effectively mitigated (with use of appropriate financial outlays) by properly prepared road design, taking into account the natural values, developed from the very beginning in cooperation with specialists in range of nature, acoustics, and environmental protection. The aim of the article is to assess the impact of targeted environmental solutions on the costs of road construction in Poland.