Roma Strulak-Wójcikiewicz

Maritime University of Szczecin · Faculty of Economics and Transport Engineering

As solar energy generation has become more and more important for the economies of numerous countries in the last couple of decades, it is highly important to build accurate models for forecasting the amount of green energy that will be produced. Numerous recurrent deep learning approaches, mainly based on long short-term memory (LSTM), are propose...

An effective energy oversight represents a major concern throughout the world, and the problem has become even more stringent recently. The prediction of energy load and consumption depends on various factors such as temperature, plugged load, etc. The machine learning and deep learning (DL) approaches developed in the last decade provide a very hi...

The paper discusses the issues of conducting environmental impact assessments (EIA) – one of the fundamental tools of environmental protection management, aimed at ensuring the ecological safety and security of planned investment projects. The threats to the environment posed by investments in transport infrastructure are discussed in terms of ecol...

Purpose: The article aims to discuss the authors' own experiences and literature review on the topic of small communities of additive production in COVID-19 conditions and propose an improvement of emergency procedures in situations of global threat. Design/Methodology/Approach: Its object is organizing and analyzing the experience gained during th...

In 2020, tourism was highly affected by COVID-19 and its restrictions, such as tourist traffic. Decisions related to trips were made in a state of high risk and uncertainty. This article’s main aim is to present the results of research on decision making by people practising sailing tourism during COVID-19. The survey was conducted in the first qua...

The article aimed to show which of the restrictions and limitations imposed in connection with the pandemic were the most burdensome for the participants of nautical tourism. It presents the opinions of 580 sailors from six countries: Turkey. Research has shown that in the 2020 sailing season, sailors have observed many changes in the functioning o...

Purpose: The main purpose of the article is to present the premises indicating the need to use the potential of crowdsourcing in a participatory model of culture management to activate and integrate communities to shape culture in their cities. Design/Methodology/Approach: The article uses the method of review and critical analysis of the literatur...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented public health and economic crises around the world. The protection of human health and life has become the most important challenge. Disrupted supply chains resulted in shortages in the supply of essential medical equipment and personal protective equipment. The quick response to this situation was the...

Abstract: Purpose: The objective of this paper is to present the possibilities of using the Six Sigma (SS) methodology in the management of city logistics processes in the Polish city of Szczecin. Design/Methodology/Approach: The Six Sigma methodology is used in this study. We discuss the possibility of managing city logistics based on the Six Sigm...

Reliance on the sharing economy is becoming crucial to the functioning of modern cities. Certain sharing economy-based solutions can contribute to the development of sustainable urban freight transport by reducing the number of delivery vans in service and using green vehicles. This paper evaluates the potential of the sharing economy for freight d...

Miasta są atrakcyjnymi destynacjami turystycznymi, pełniąc jednocześnie funkcję ośrodków przemysłowych, administracyjnych oraz ważnych węzłów komunikacyjnych, co sprawia, że charakteryzują się wysokim stopniem zanieczyszczenia powietrza. Celem opracowania jest próba ustalenia czy potencjalni turyści – w ocenie atrakcyjności turystycznej miasta, do...

Trust has emerged as a key factor in any virtual transaction. Therefore, the protection of trustworthiness should be a central matter of concern in the online tourism sector, especially in emerging and, hence, more fragile markets such as nautical tourism. In this study, an exploratory investigation was conducted of four online sailing platforms us...

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to present the possibilities of using reverse logistics and IT solutions in the area of remote cooperation in small-lot production based on additive technology in COVID-19 conditions. Design/Methodology/Approach: Critical review and analysis of the literature on 3D printing, reverse logistics and ICT solution...

In recent years, intensive development of sailing tourism has been observed in various regions of the world. This is a beneficial phenomenon from the point of view of sustainable tourism development because sailing yachts are powered by the wind and therefore do not emit exhaust gas into the atmosphere. Tourists usually travel in small groups, whic...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the access-based consumption model, which is becoming an alternative to the traditional ownership-based model. The development of business models based on collaborative consumption has become possible, among others, thanks to the development of ICT tools and easy access to the internet. The pape...

The purpose of the article is to determine whether potential tourists consider information about a city's air quality in their assessment of its tourist attractiveness and how this this information affects their travel decisions. Urban tourism is a common and dynamically developing form of tourism. Cities encourage tourists to visit them with vario...

Cooperation platforms are becoming more and more popular in many countries with various characteristics about economic, social and culture background. The subject is an extremely topical and important issue and, at the same time, it is still insufficiently analysed. Literature considers collaborative consumption business models, at the level of the...

Cities are multifunctional by definition, and an increasingly significant function is the tourist function. City tourism is one of the most dynamically developing forms of tourism. Tourists’ decisions regarding choosing a destination are influenced by a number of factors determining the subjective assessment of the tourist attractiveness of a given...

Trust has emerged as a key factor in any virtual transaction. Therefore, the protection of trustworthiness should be a central matter of concern in the online tourism sector, especially in emerging and, hence, more fragile markets such as nautical tourism. In this study, an exploratory investigation was conducted of four online sailing platforms us...

The concept of a sharing economy, as part of a wider collaborative economy concept, is among the most important economic and technological trends that will influence socioeconomic development in the future. Interest in using the opportunities offered by sharing platforms is increasing; hence, the subject is a current and important issue. Confidence...

The article aims to draw attention to the important role of data security in the functioning of online platforms. This phenomenon is an issue that is critically important to the growing popularity of these tools, which are now increasingly used for tourism purposes. The main focus of the article is on platforms related to nautical tourism. The firs...

The growth of container trade at sea and inland ports has necessitated a better integration of water and land transport, which entails the need to expand the hinterland and accessibility from the land side. The infrastructure investment projects completed so far, aimed at improving the efficiency of transport in the hinterland, are the basis for cr...

Waste reception management processes and downstream waste management are a key component of reverse logistics in waste management. The paper discusses the problems of management in the reception of waste and cargo residues from ships at ports as a place where all kinds of pollution are generated, received and disposed of in parallel. The paper pres...

Koncepcja ekonomii współdzielenia oraz powstające w oparciu o nią internetowe platformy współpracy zaliczane są do jednych z ważniejszych trendów ekonomiczno-technologicznych, które będą wpływały na rozwój społeczno-gospodarczy w przyszłości. Zaufanie do technologii, usługodawców i serwisu wydają się być kluczową kwestią podczas podejmowania decyzj...

The aim of the article is to present results of research on the use of internet platforms in nautical tourism. For the purposes of this article, a research hypothesis has been made that platforms can be a helpful tool for boaters and cruise planners. For the needs of the study, research was conducted among representatives of yacht port operators op...

The purpose of this article is to present the concept of creating the yacht ports internet platform. Based on previous research conducted in selected yacht ports and marinas in Poland, the problem of the lack of unified information presented on the websites of yacht ports was formulated. The existing situation has a negative impact on the image of...

The article presents a concept of a simulation model for evaluation and assessment of the sustainable development of urban transport in the social, economic and environmental dimensions. Urban transport is here understood as combination of urban freight transport, passenger transport and individual transport. The concept is illustrated by a set of...

This article deals with the issue of waste collection from yachts and tall ships that is important from the perspective of sustainable tourism. There are, of course, procedures that regulate the passing of waste by vessels, which also apply to tourist vessels. However, the authors made an attempt to analyze the process of waste collection carried o...

The purpose of the article is to present the role of marinas in the economic development of Polish coastal regions. Many marinas are located in close proximity to cities or smaller towns, considered to be attractive to tourists. These are areas characterized by above-average tourist traffic. For the purpose of the research, a hypothesis was propose...

Current forecasts related to container turnover in ports suggest that it will be a hard task in a long run to effectively meet the growing demand for container transport just by road and rail transport within feeder systems, shipping to and from ports. The presented article regards the concept of container logistic chains, where a basic component i...

The article discusses the environmental effects of transport, with a particular focus on the natural environment. The author presents methods used for assessing the influence of investments in transport infrastructure on the environment and the main problems related to assessment.

Komputerowy model symulacyjny jako źródło informacji w ocenie oddziaływania na środowisko 1. Wstęp Ocena odziaływania na środowisko (OOŚ) 1 jest jednym z podstawowych na-rzędzi zarządzania ochroną środowiska, wpisujących się w postulaty zrównowa-żonego rozwoju. Procedura oceny oddziaływania na środowisko ma za zadanie dostarczenie decydentowi 2 nie...

Modernization and construction of new transport infrastructure is a key element of economic and social development, on which depends the sustainability of economic growth in the regional and local scale. The development of transport infrastructure, however, has the negative effects. The continuous increase in the volume of transport services and th...

The paper presents a computer simulation as an effective method for testing the impact of transport on the environment. It shows the concept of a simulation model that allows the integration of different approaches and methods used in the discussed context, pointing to the System Dynamics (SD) as a suitable technique to formalize the model. Simulat...

The article presents the concept of simulation system allowing the integration of diff erent approaches and methods used in assessing the impact of infrastructure investment on the environment The system enables the simultaneous estimation of all eff ects of the investment on the environment.