Karol Kowalczyk

Abstract The analysis of the influence, exerted by the road projects on traffic intensity, was performed for the period 2000–2010 on the basis of data on the intensity of traffic of passenger cars and heavy good vehicles over the network of out-of-town national and provincial roads. An abrupt increase of the number of cars and the initiation of the intensive infrastructural undertakings contributed to an essential increase in the intensity of road traffic in Poland. Opening of a motorway or of an expressway entails a shift of a part of traffic, especially of a part of the transit traffic, from the parallel national roads over to the newly constructed road segments. A motorway has, in comparison with the parallel national road, an important competitive time-wise edge, but the situation gets complicated when a motorway fee is introduced. Local factors also exert a significant influence on the changes in traffic intensity.

Keywords: traffic intensity, passenger vehicle traffic, heavy good vehicle traffic, road fees

Piotr Rosik [rosik@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00‑818 Warszawa, Poland
Sławomir Goliszek [sgoliszek@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00‑818 Warszawa, Poland
Karol Kowalczyk [karol.kowalczyk@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl], Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, Wydział Nauk o Ziemi i Gospodarki Przestrzennej

Citation

APA: Rosik, P., Goliszek, S., & Kowalczyk, K. (2015). The impact of selected road projects on changes in traffic intensity. Europa XXI, 28, 9-32. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2015.28.1
MLA: Rosik, Piotr, et al. "The impact of selected road projects on changes in traffic intensity". Europa XXI, vol. 28, 2015, pp. 9-32. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2015.28.1
Chicago: Rosik, Piotr, Goliszek, Sławomir, and Kowalczyk, Karol. "The impact of selected road projects on changes in traffic intensity". Europa XXI 28 (2015): 9-32. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2015.28.1
Harvard: Rosik, P., Goliszek, S., & Kowalczyk, K. 2015. "The impact of selected road projects on changes in traffic intensity". Europa XXI, vol. 28, pp. 9-32. https://doi.org/10.7163/Eu21.2015.28.1