The land layout is one of the most important factors influencing the costs of conducting an agricultural business. An improper land layout results in additional farming costs and it reduces profitability of the agricultural production. This factor is therefore treated as one of the most important premises justifying the reor-ganization of spatial structure of a given area through land consolidation.This dissertation is aimed at proposing a model of optimization of farm-land's layout, which shows the influence of its parameters on farming costs, and finding a solution in the next place. In addition to this, the theoretical discussion presented in the thesis broadens the knowledge of developing layouts of land plots and rural roads in the countryside ensuring the closest proximity of land to the farmstead and a proper land layout. A distinctive feature of the model is the division of countryside into design complexes, and then a further division of complexes into elementary small surface areas created in accordance with approved design methods of land plots. Long-striped elements, which were sectioned off, are subject to the optimization procedure that is to distribute them in a manner so as to minimize the average distance in the examined area. A crucial element ...
