The potential accessibility to workplaces and working-age population by means of public and private car transport in Szczecin

• Authors: Sławomir Goliszek

Abstracts

EN

Commuting to work is one of the key motivations for people to move around cities or other regions. For the purpose of this study, the city of Szczecin in Poland has been selected, where the modal division of transport includes public transport (bus, tram) and private transport (car). The maps present the spatial distribution of citizens within a working area as well as precise locations of workplaces registered in the REGON database. The main objective of this study is to analyse the potential accessibility of workplaces and the working-age population of the city using the abovementioned modes of transport, and to indicate the places less accessible by public transport and car for commuting purposes. The study presented herein is based on data from 2018. The calculated average accessibility by diferent means of public and private transport as well as the potential accessibility quotient are presented in the form of box plots.

Keywords

EN

Public transport; car transport; GTFS; workplaces; working-age population; Szczecin

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Sławomir Goliszek

• Department of Spatial Organization, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
• The Digital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

• https://orcid.org/0000000309081487

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0069

Biblioteka Nauki

2092528