- Road and railway potential accessibility of Poland in the European dimension

Piotr Rosik, Marcin Stepniak and Monika Musial-Malagó

No 14_3, Working Papers from SIET Società Italiana di Economia dei Trasporti e della Logistica

Abstract: The main goal of the paper is to present the results of the potential accessibility model, which enables simulations of changes of accessibility in Poland to be performed due to the opening of the model to the international dimension. The most important conclusions from the analysis of potential accessibility are as follows. The spatial distribution of potential accessibility depends most upon the value of the beta parameter appearing in the exponential distance decay function and upon the spatial scale (national vs. international variant of the analysis). The opening up of the potential model to the entire European continent significantly changes the image of accessibility in Poland, in particular when long trips are taken into account. For shorter trips the areas located along the German border benefit, mainly owing to the proximity of Berlin, yet the highest accessibility still remains in Warsaw and Upper Silesia (as in the national variant). For longer trips the areas with the best accessibility are Lower Silesia (south-western part of Poland), along with the areas bordering Germany and the Czech Republic. The accessibility level decreases in a north-easterly direction. Railway accessibility changes to a much smaller extent when the model is opened to the European dimension. The results of the study may find application in planning analyses, in strategies, in relation to cohesion, regional and transport policies, and also in the transboundary context.

Date: 2014
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