Transportation Management in Urban Functional Areas

The main aim of the article is to clarify the characteristics of the method that determines the functional links and gravity towards cities on the basis of public transport connections. The paper delivers a detailed description of the method and provides examples of its application in empirical research conducted by the authors in the years 2010-2014.

2015

Commuting plays a significant role in forming metropolitan areas. It is one of the basic criteria for delineation of functional areas, including metropolitan regions. The objectives of this study included determining the Warsaw labour market and examining the influence of some spatial patterns on the intensity of commuting to Warsaw in the investigated communes. The research was conducted in a form of questionnaire interviews in 800 households from 30 communes of the Warsaw suburban zone, involving 2 215 adult participants. The analysis was based on a binary matrix B and weight matrix W standardised according to rows. A criterion of a common border was assumed as a neighbouring criterion. The weight matrix was built in the first step, then the global Moran’s statistic was calculated for each workplace localisation. Then local Moran’s statistics were calculated. The global Moran’s statistic was significant only for respondents commuting to another village. There were clusters of comm...

Transportation Overview - Przeglad Komunikacyjny, 2020

The availability of transport services is one of the basic conditions for meeting the living needs and socio-economic activity of the population. The lack of access to such services is called a communication exclusion. Analyzes indicate that in Poland, both the number and the length of bus lines, mainly regional bus lines, are systematically decreasing. There is also little interest of local government units in building a common public transport offer. At the same time, the automotive index is rising. An important condition for shaping an integrated public transport network is cooperation: cooperation of various authorities at different levels, cooperation of authorities with carriers, cooperation with residents, enabling them to obtain their opinions. An important role can and should be played by non- governmental organizations that exist and operate in many places in Poland, pointing to the desired and expected solutions in the area of transport, e.g. the course of bicycle routes ...

2016

The aim of this study is to spatially examine a contemporary role of a passenger train service versus a bus service in commuting from the suburbs of ten Polish metropolitan areas. The authors have sought to verify where these two public transport services operate complementarily – in multimodal chains, and where each mode works separately. Specific socio-economic conditions, that had shaped the urban structures of Central and Eastern European countries including Poland, were affecting the contemporary role of public transport and commuting patterns which are different from those observed in Western Europe. Although urban areas have been researched many times by Polish transport geographers, there is a lack of comparative elaborations discussing the aspects of train and bus commuting for all the biggest metropolitan areas together in one study. This paper has been written on the basis of the research project Multimodal accessibility by public transport at the gmina level in Poland, t...

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 2009

The scope of research into the demand for urban transport includes a survey of mobility behaviour. Its value is that it refers to both, the effective and the potential demand. This is why mobility behaviour is surveyed in public transport vehicles, at stops and stations, in selected sites in the city (during a comprehensive traffic study) and at the respondent's home. Following the mobility behaviour survey, it is possible to define the modal split, the urban mobility of inhabitants and the destinations of their journeys, as well as the reasons why they choose public transport or the car for urban trips. The article presents the results of mobility behaviour surveys concerning the effective demand in some of Polish towns and cities between 2000 and 2008, and mobility behaviour surveys of the inhabitants of Warsaw and Gdynia, covering also the possible demand.

TRANSPORT, 2008

The paper presents some aspects of operation of municipal transport system in the city of Lublin (Poland). Organization of Lublin Municipal Transport Company was described, its efficiency and perspectives of development. Particular attention was paid to the rules of adjustment to the EU requirements, and to the influence of demographic and social factors. Infrastructure of public transport in Lublin was analyzed (busses, trolley‐busses, bus stations, fixed objects and bus stops), as well as configuration of bus and trolley‐bus lines. Some specific proposals were also put forward regarding development solutions: development plan of trolley‐bus traction, plan of inter‐connection bus station, development plan of bus traction, introduction of advanced IT solutions into the public transport management and natural gas (CNG) fuelling of the city busses. Keywords: urban transport, urban transport problems.

Przegląd Politologiczny, 2018

The organization and management of public transportation is one of the most important responsibilities of local authorities. In view of the dynamically changing conditions of modern cities' transportation policies, actions in this area pose a challenge, involving the standardization of transportation and its adjustment to the transportation needs and expectations of residents not only of individual cities, but of entire metropolitan areas. One of the ways to tailor transportation to the needs of residents is to continuously coordinate on the basis of diagnosis and analysis of residents' demands. Public transportation passenger councils provide a forum for exchanging views on this issue. In Poland, only the authorities of Warsaw have thus far decided to establish such a body.

2018

The study concludes governance models of metropolitan areas is that whatever solution is adopted, depending on the specific national or regional problems facing will be necessary authority or agency with the capacity planning (spatial) control, revision , preservation and application of metropolitan strategy. The metropolitan area must have the professional resources strategic planning in the medium and long term policy analysis at the metropolitan level, correlate and establish balance between sectorial interests and those of the metropolitan area. With the advent of the automobile and the transition to mass production of various auto brands were developed in parallel and road transport networks, linking the large urban areas. Populated urban centers, rural areas and are directly affected by the exponential growth of population mobility and more striking movement of goods. Road traffic is orderly movement of vehicles and people, focusing on areas of land specially arranged for this...

Transport Problems, 2011

Summary. The article presents the problems and the importance of integration of public transport on the basis of Polish and EU documents relating to public transport, as well as gives examples of solutions that integrate urban public transport in Poland and worldwide. Public transport is a special kind of transport designed for fulfilling needs of city (communal) in range of urban and suburban transport of inhabitants. The main task of public transport is to enable the mobility of people with retaining the same conditions which are given by passengers. Issues concerning the public transport development (improvement in quality of public transport services in the all necessity and essence of its integration) are bringing up in many important Polish documents (e.g. State Transport Policy) and EU (e.g. White Paper, Green Paper). An example concern the solution of urban public transport integration in the country and world can be quoted of some solutions: implementation of the uniform ta...

2018

The aim of the work is to conduct a multidimensional modelling of transport behaviour of residents of cities in Poland. The research was carried out on the basis of the pilot sample survey results conducted by Polish Central Statistical Office in 2014-2015. In the work a correspondence analysis was used to study the transport behaviour of urban residents. In the study the relationship between the frequency of journeys within the city and factors describing them were investigated. The research analysed primarily the interdependence between the intensity of travels made by residents within the city and factors describing these travels, such as structure of travel, destination, time interval of journeys or methods of travel. On this basis, a profound analysis of the transport behaviour of urban residents was carried out. The study results presented in this work can be a useful tool for local authorities in order to forecast the travel behaviour of urban residents.

Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG

The issue of public transport accessibility of localities and regions is one of the key research themes of transport geography. The EU defines public transport as one of the services of "general economic interest", which means that its organization should be based on the principles of solidarity and equal access for all citizens of the state and its regions. The study of transport accessibility of 13 district centres in the peripheral and economically underdeveloped Prešov administrative region (Slovakia) from the municipalities of their immediate hinterlands expressed by the number of direct bus and train connections is aimed at identifying the spatial differentiation of individual intraregional accessibilities. The realization of the research pursues the objective,to point out by the comparison of the theoretical and real values of direct transport connections, to the possible existence of discrepancies in the public transport services of individual municipalities in relation to their higher hierarchical district's centre.

Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG, 2020

A properly functioning public transport is one of the most important components of urban mobility for the population. Due to spatial inhomogeneity and overall socio-economic differences within a city, there are often considerable disproportions in the quality of transport services within its districts. Also, the city of Krakow is no exception in this case. For a comparison of public transport accessibility in 18 Krakow districts, 7 major quantitative and 5 minor indicators were created. These indicators include the most important characteristics of transport services such as accessibility, frequency, connectivity of connections, and ratios of tram public transport subsystem. The resulting values give a fairly comprehensive picture of the quality of the transport services. Overall higher values for most indicators occur in the central districts of the city. However, due to the complexity of the observed characteristics, it is possible to discover significant differences in the struct...

Proceedings of the 16th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2016, 2019

Main debates concerning urban mobility in Romania are dominated by the necessity to define, adopt and implement sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMP). SUMPs are strategic instruments to move forward from the traditional way of managing spatial accessibility and transport issues (which is especially true for post-socialist cities) to a more integrated, participative and innovative approach. Although some investments in urban transportation have been made in Romania during the EU's previous financial period (2007-2013), most urban areas still face numerous challenges in leaving behind the old paradigm. Our paper brings into discussion the current state in adopting SUMPs for major Romanian cities. In addition, the paper discusses the public transportation and spatial accessibility issues for the particular case of Suceava City with the aim of highlighting some of the challenges SUMPs have to find a solution. These challenges are numerous and very diverse and, as a consequence, we opted for discussing only some of the aspects which one may consider as representative for most of the Romanian cities. The methodology deployment involved, in a first phase, the creation of a database concerning the economic actors in the field of public transportation and the services they offer, and, in a second phase, the use of GIS instruments in order to create a road transport infrastructure spatial database and to analyse the quality of infrastructure and the spatial accessibility it generates. The results highlight some of the administrative challenges to be faced and some issues related to transport infrastructure quality and to periurban spatial accessibility.

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019

The current socioeconomic conditions of some developed and developing countries are not favorable for the development of the public mass transport services. Most of the residents of large and medium-sized cities, but also smaller towns, use their own passenger car on mandatory trips. This phenomenon perfectly reflects the constantly growing of motorization index in such countries. The consequence of this is, of course, the decreasing number of passengers carried by means of public mass transport, in particular operating outside of large urbanized areas. This causes and unfortunately will cause not only further problems of automotive congestion on the transport networks of urban areas, reduction of the road safety level, but also adverse environmental effects in the form of pollution. The authors of the article analyzed the results of transport surveys, which were carried out in recent years among the public transport passengers. The surveys concerned the assessments and postulates and expectations of passengers. The research was carried out in one of the typical in terms of socioeconomic conditions of Polish voivodships (a country dynamically developing in the passenger transport sector, in terms of both mobility, as well as the quantitative and qualitative status of transport means and transport infrastructure). The voivodship subjected to such analysis was the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship, located in the central part of Poland. The respondents were asked to speak on topics related to, among others, transport infrastructure, means of transport, access to services of public transport systems, comfort and safety of traveling. The analysis also included assessments and postulates related to tariff systems, travel information systems, and transport integration systems-functioning in the voivodship. The results of the research were analyzed by the rail passenger transport and bus passenger transport as part of the voivodship public transport system. In the majority of cases, passengers' assessments were not satisfactory. The most frequently issued evaluations fluctuated only around the average (on a scale from 1 to 10). The authors have thoroughly analyzed the results of the transport survey, confronting the results obtained and trying to find out their causes depending on the characteristics of the area under analysis.

Transport Problems/Problemy Transportu, 2024

In today's urban mobility scene, the increasing number of private cars trying to travel through the city centers is one of the most onerous problems facing urban transport. Knowing about the impact that different transport demand management models can have on the efficiency of the urban transport system may be of key importance for developing solutions in this area. This knowledge is the main goal of the considerations undertaken. The observations presented in this article took place during the formation of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) for the Bielsko-Biała agglomeration. The author of the article is a member of the working group that prepared the SUMP project for the city. The study examined the effectiveness of mobility planning activities. The scope of these activities included collecting the data necessary to create a mobility plan, analyzing this data, building scenarios in the area of transport demand management, and designing the assessment of the adopted solutions. The article shows the procedure for creating a model of a SUMP for urban areas, which may be a prerequisite for municipal governments for effective applications for funding projects related to transport. The most important part of the analysis is the evaluation using integration indicators of selected key elements of the urban transport system of the Bielsko-Biała agglomeration in the area of transfer accessibility. Such research allows us to answer the question of whether the locations of new railway stops proposed under the agglomeration SUMP contribute to increasing the integration of the urban transport system. The current research implements one of the dimensions of mobility management projects. Related goals are, among other things, to achieve more effective integration of the urban transport system. The analyses were carried out by measuring selected properties of the transport network and a survey questionnaire.