Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2024, 26(4):A75-A88 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2024.052

The Effectiveness of Public Intervention in the Regional and Urban Mobility Based on the Examples of Poland and Slovakia

Jozef Gnap ORCID...1, *, Grzegorz Dydkowski ORCID...2, Anna Urbanek ORCID...2
1 Department of Road and Urban Transport, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
2 Department of Transport, University of Economics in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

Ensuring the sustainable development of urban and regional public transport systems is one of the major challenges faced by public authorities. This article examines changes over more than two decades in the two key synthetic measures for balancing transport: urban and regional public transport and individual motorization in two neighbouring EU countries, Poland, and Slovakia. The findings reveal the low effectiveness of transport sustainability policies, particularly in Poland, as evidenced by a decline in public transport usage and a significant increase in the number of private cars. Comparing the two countries Slovakia's policies proved more effective, showing lower increases in the number of private vehicles and only a slight decline in the volume of urban public transport.

Keywords: urban, regional transport, effectiveness, Poland, Slovakia
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Received: April 8, 2024; Accepted: July 30, 2024; Prepublished online: August 26, 2024; Published: October 1, 2024  Show citation

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Gnap, J., Dydkowski, G., & Urbanek, A. (2024). The Effectiveness of Public Intervention in the Regional and Urban Mobility Based on the Examples of Poland and Slovakia. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 26(4), A75-88. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2024.052
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