Inclusive transport as a priority for European transport policy

• Authors: Kos-Łabędowicz Joanna

Title variants

PL

Inkluzywność transportu jako priorytet europejskiej polityki transportowej

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Transport accessibility, or rather the lack of it, increasingly referred to as transport exclusion or poverty, can lead to social exclusion and a range of negative social consequences. The aim of this article is to identify how accessibility and inclusiveness are treated in EU transport policies, in order to determine to what extent those policies are inclusive. The content analysis of EU transport policy documents issued between the years 2000 and 2022 will be conducted in this research. References to access and accessibility in the analysed documents consistently address mainly two issues: access for peripheral areas to the European transport system and ensuring accessibility of public transport. The second approach is relevant for ensuring the inclusiveness of the transport system.

PL

Dostępność transportu, a raczej jego brak, coraz częściej określany jako wykluczenie transportowe lub ubóstwo, może prowadzić do wykluczenia społecznego i szeregu negatywnych konsekwencji społecznych. Celem artykułu jest określenie, w jaki sposób dostępność i inkluzywność są traktowane w polityce transportowej UE, aby określić, w jakim stopniu polityka ta jest inkluzywna. Mając na uwadze realizację tak postawionego celu, w niniejszym badaniu przeprowadzono analizę treści dokumentów polityki transportowej UE z lat 2000-2022. Odniesienia do dostępu i dostępności w analizowanych dokumentach w sposób spójny wskazują głównie na dwie kwestie: dostęp obszarów peryferyjnych do europejskiego systemu transportowego oraz zapewnienie dostępności transportu publicznego. Drugie z wskazanych podejść jest istotne dla zapewnienia inkluzywności systemu transportowego.

Keywords

EN

transport system; European Union; inclusiveness; transport accessibility; transport exclusion

PL

system transportowy; Unia Europejska; inkluzywność; dostępność transportu; wykluczenie transportowe

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 2(68)
• Pages: 59-72

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Kos-Łabędowicz Joanna

• University of Economics in Katowice

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