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One of the important assumptions and factors of social and economic development of countries and their regions is road infrastructure. This is particularly true in countries where road transport is the largest component of overall transportation, such as in Slovakia and Poland. Road infrastructure as part of the transport infrastructure is here reg...
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... The advantageous geographical location of Slovakia in Europe increas- es the importance of road infrastructure in the in- ternational context. In this respect, a well-developed network of roads and superior road infrastructure (motorways and expressways) are required. Howev- er, all categories of roads are needed in the country and its regions. Fig. 2 shows the division of Slovakia into self-governing regions. In the Slovak Republic, there are significant differences in the social and economic level of its regions. According to Šedivá (2012, p. 31), the dif- ferences arise not just from natural-geographic, de- mographic and historical background of the regions, but also depend on ...
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... An analysis of the road infrastructure in Slovakia and Poland is performed also by Masárová and Ivanová (2016). They describe the coefficient of localization that shows the level of proportionality of the distribution of roads in the network and makes a comparison of the infrastructure between 2005 and 2013. ...
Multimodal solutions as factors of increasing transport accessibility-the case of Slovakia-Polish Baltic coast route Multimodal passenger transport is an essential component of long-distance travel by public transport. It is not possible to establish direct rail or bus connections between all regions of a given country and it is even more difficult to ensure the communication between regions of various countries. However, in order to ensure relatively efficient accessibility and at the same time to maintain profitable connections, possibilities of convenient changes of ways of transport are possible at multimodal interchange nodes, which is the most important element of the infrastructure of multimodal passenger transport. Examples of potential applications of this type of mobility include tourist trips from Slovakia to Baltic Sea resorts in Poland. Over a dozen Polish seaside resorts located on the Baltic coast can become travel destinations for Slovak tourists. The article discusses the capabilities of public transport between Slovakia and the Polish Baltic coast. It also analyses its real-life effectiveness and identifies problems requiring support and implementation of an integrated multimodal passenger transport. This discussion is based on the analysis of timetables, including the basic timetable assumptions. The results of the analysis will include maps showing the differentiation of accessibility of the Polish Baltic coast and an exemplary model improving the performance of public transport between Slovakia and the destinations located on the Polish coast.
... In central and eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, there are strong connections between transport development and sustainable regional development. This has been described by researchers from Hungary [1], the Slovak Republic [2,3], Romania [4] and Lithuania [5]. ...
... An analysis of the results from Table 4 and Figure 7 shows the highest median (5), and thus the highest road transport development evaluation, in the Łódzkie province. The lowest level (2) was recorded in the Podlaskie (PD) and Zachodniopomorskie (ZP) provinces. The Podkarpackie (PK) and Małopolskie (MP) provinces reached level 4, and the remaining provinces were scored at level 3. Figure 8 presents the aggregated results of road transport development evaluation for the Polish provinces. ...
In central and eastern European countries that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007, there are strong connections between transport development and sustainable regional development. The needs for transport development in post-socialist countries are so high that it is difficult to finance them, and most governments have to choose between immediate and less urgent needs. The aim of this study was to determine the role played by sustainable transport growth in the improvement of regional cohesion and sustainable regional development with a use of geographical information systems’ capabilities. The specific goals of the study were to: (i) determine the impact of EU subsidies on the regional transport development; (ii) identify threats to regional cohesion resulting from under-capitalised regions, (iii) examine geographical information systems’ capabilities in periodical regional transport development monitoring. The analyses include evaluation of the regions’ involvement in sustainable transport development as well as the presentation of direct and indirect results, such as road system improvement, with the use of GIS capabilities. It is particularly important to develop a system for monitoring the level of EU fund allocation with the use of GIS tools and the capabilities of geographic information systems. Such in-depth analysis would be useful for regional governments and decision-makers in creating and updating long term transport policies as well as monitoring long term regional development strategies. Both sustainable transport development and EU fund allocation can be monitored within the use of GIS tools, and such analyses should supplement the INSPIRE Geoportal scope.
... According to paper [21], Slovakia exhibits regional differences in quality of individual transport networks, and this has far-reaching consequences for the growth of economic and social differences between individual regions in the country. Authors Masarova and Ivanova [22] compared road infrastructures in Slovakia and Poland in years 2005 through 2013 and pointed out regional differences in road infrastructure between those two countries. The trends developing in the road and railway transport in the Slovak Republic were analysed in article [23] by applying statistical methods. ...
The development of the transport segment is currently an essential process which affects several other industries. The transport infrastructure and the services provided in this sector influence economic growth, the efforts aimed at increasing competitiveness, as well as prosperity of the society. One of the key problems Slovakia is facing is the long-term growth of differences between individual regions. The present article deals with the evaluation and comparison of selected transport infrastructure indicators in eight regions of Slovakia. The evaluation was carried out by applying basic statistical methods and multiple-criteria statistical methods. Every region was characterised by 20 selected variables describing its uniqueness (e.g. population, area, GDP per capita, road infrastructure etc.). The evaluation of similarities between individual regions in terms of selected variables was carried out by applying the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis. Within the PCA, the original input variables were replaced with three principal components describing as much as 86.68% of the cumulative variance. The average linkage method, as one of the hierarchical methods, was applied to create a dendrogram representing the similarities between the regions of Slovakia. The cophenetic correlation coefficient value of CC=0.936 confirmed the proper selection of the average linkage method. The output of the cluster analysis was that 8 regions of Slovakia were divided into five similar homogenous clusters based on the examined variables. The final analysis indicated that the transport infrastructure and the development thereof significantly affect the differences between individual regions of Slovakia and, as a matter of fact, they belong to the factors creating such differences.
... The authors (Masarova and Ivanova, 2016) showed the role of transport infrastructure in Poland and Slovakia on the European market. ...
This paper presents some aspects of the process of services, products and manufacturing transfer, with the associated production resources, from other locations and plants to Poland.
The study was carried out on the basis of an analysis of publications about delocalization as well as by means of desk research, where there were used the accessible primary and secondary data such as branch reports, statistical data available in reports, data bases, and information accessible on Polish and European websites. The article is also the result of the author's experience of participation in the relocation of a number of international companies, regarding various industries. Delocalization in Poland was presented both from the point of view of Conceptualizing delocalization (literature review, theoretical position) and Implementation of production.
The delocalization mainly takes advantage of labor forces. On the other hand, it may also concern innovative activities and develop high-tech for regions affected by economic restructuring. The social policies for the risk mitigation of the delocalization of production are also being developed and implemented. This work clarifying the conditions of delocalization in Poland and highlight the important roles played by innovation and institutions for achieving sustainability.
... A similar figure in the cities of developed foreign countries is 450-700 passenger cars per 1000 inhabitants. Even though we have not yet reached the motorization level of developed Western countries, transport problems in the cities of Ukraine and Slovakia are the most acute and require immediate action to address them [8,10,11]. ...
... The degree of development of the road network is determined by its length and density, which is determined by the ratio of the length of roads to the area of the city and has a dimension of km/km 2 . The density indicator is used to analyse the characteristics of the development of urban the street-road network or in any other territory [10]. ...
... The highest density of road infrastructure of Slovakia is in the Trenčín region, 1.18 km/km 2 , while the lowest density in the Prešov region is 0.70 km/km 2 . The highest density is in the region of Bratislava -0.057 km per km 2 in 2015 [10]. ...
The article deals with research of relationship between the performance of road and freight transport and transport infrastructure (motorways) in EU countries. The main goal is to find out how transport infrastructure has a relationship and influence on the development of transport performance. The relationship between transport performance and transport infrastructure has been examined by correlation and regression analysis. Research has shown that the strength of these relationships is different for states. There is a strong direct and indirect dependence between transport infrastructure and transport performance.
