PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gnap, Jozef
AU  - Dydkowski, Grzegorz
AU  - Urbanek, Anna
TI  - The Effectiveness of Public Intervention in the Regional and Urban Mobility Based on the Examples of Poland and Slovakia
DP  - 2024 Oct 1
TA  - Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina
PG  - A75--A88
VI  - 26
IP  - 4
AID - 10.26552/com.C.2024.052
IS  - 13354205
AB  - 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.