The influence of transport offer on passenger traffic in the railway transport system in a post-socialist country: case study of Poland

Jurkowski Wojciech () and Smolarski Mateusz ()
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Jurkowski Wojciech: University of Wrocław, Department of Spatial Management, Institute of Geography and Regional Development, Wrocław, Poland
Smolarski Mateusz: University of Opole, Department of Geography and Landscape Management, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Ozimska 46a, 45-058Opole, Poland

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2021, vol. 53, issue 53, 33-42

Abstract: The study examines factors influencing the number of rail passengers in Poland. The subjects of observation were 62 cities with poviat rights. The main factors influencing demand are the number of connections and the speed of trains. Therefore, we developed an original indicator – weighted number of connections, which takes into account the number of rail connections and the speed of trains. The article can be divided into two main parts: an assessment of the diversification of transport offer and transport demand in spatial terms, and an evaluation of the relationship between the variables. Poland has a large spatial diversity in terms of public rail transport offer and passenger traffic. There are three levels of city hierarchy according to the passenger number indicator: [1] Warsaw, [2] the largest agglomerations [3] other regional cities. Transport offer was found to have a statistically significant impact on transport demand.

Keywords: railway transport; transit offer; transport demand; passenger traffic; Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/bog-2021-0021

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