Activities aimed at the improvement of instruments of rural development have been undertaken in Europe
for many years. Those focusing on the changing the ownership structure, implemented through the traditional process
of land consolidation, are gradually replaced by multifunctional activities for rural development, considering elements of
environmental protection, agricultural landscape management, and solutions concerning soil and water protection. Such
development must be accompanied by the application of new pro-ecological design and material-technological solutions
regarding the construction of rural roads. The roads should be designed with possibly the fullest consideration of a rich
resource of data on a given area, performance of many spatial analyses, and decision making in the scope of selection of
the most appropriate solutions acceptable to all stakeholders (e.g. residents, farmers, local authorities, entrepreneurs, and
investors). The article presents the concept of a model solution of the development of the rural road network based on the
multiple-criteria model of spatial analyses with the application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process method. The research
process was conducted in the geographic information systems environment. The importance of the proposed methodology
was verified in actual conditions based on the example of the Harta village located in the southern part of Poland. The
obtained results suggest that the process of development of rural roads with the application of the multiple-criteria model
of spatial analyses is more accurate, more efficient than the traditional design method, and considers the requirements of
the sustainable development of rural areas. Moreover, it permits presentation of solutions in the form of maps to the local
community, almost in real time, and making excellent decisions with its active participation.