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The Tirana-Durres axis, due to democratic development of the last two decades, represents the richest markets in the Albania's transportation industry. Internal migrations from rural areas and demographic developments during that period have made this part of the nation's home of approximately half of country's population. The commercial and residential buildings are extended along the entire distance between Tirana and Durres, the two largest cities of the country, which actually belong to a unified urban centre. However, despite the construction of a highway just a decade ago and the restructuring of some auxiliary roads, the congestion, the flow of passengers and merchandise, and pollution in this axis has become a great concern. Parallel to the highway runs the railway line, which serves passangers moving between Tirana and Durres. For several reasons, ranging from type of trains to investments, the rail system is neglected. Passenger market share of this axis covered by the railway represents only 0.02% of the total demand. In our opinion the solution is correlated to the integrated transport system and one of its goals is dropping the number of vehicles on the roads at the expense of public transportation. Nevertheless, such an aim requires selecting the type of transport with greatest potential. Therefore, a cost-benefit analysis with a wide spectrum of socioeconomic elements is needed. We believe that this scrutiny, which in this paper is treated in the form of a comparison between the rail system and buses, is the proper way to evaluate motor vehicle and a train transport passenger service on Durres-Tirana axis and to choose the best one. In our model we want to stresses the importance of introducing in the Durres-Tirana railway axis new equipment such as diesel multiple units (DMU). These devises serve simultaneously as a locomotive and as a railroad car. Many European countries use DMU in short lines. In such a conception, DMU service extension can serve in Durres-Tirana transport perspective and later on in a gradual expansion in other segments of the Albanian Railway Network. DOI:10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n4p143

Albanian Railways in the last two decades has experienced a fierce competition of the road transport, which has constantly taken parts in its transport market. Being a railway of a small country will modest freight and passenger traffic volumes, its survival depends on a political decision that has to be taken by albanian government. Tha paper deals with the possibility of the coming back to rail of chrome ore, gravel and fuel transport. These transports are permanent part of rail transport, but about a decade ago left the railway. The paper purpose is not to analyze removal causes of chrome ore, gravel and fuel transport by rail, but to explain the importance of time line concept to the return of these transports volume again in railway. Taking into account the social costs in the form of environmental pollution and roads blocking caused by road vehicles, in the material presented propozes the idea of a cost-benefit analysis. This analysis should be developed in order to justify a public decision to increase the rail volume by returning the goods mentioned above in the railways. The paper develops the idea that decision-making by private viewpoint of transport oprators, has not the necessary elements for solving the blocking roads and environmental pollution problem, so should not be taken into consideration for the development of transport policies in urban areas. For this purpose must be used a cost-benefit analysis to pave the way for an integrated transport or a decision making in favor of the public interest. DOI:10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p692