Keywords
urban transport
transport policy
transport networks
European Union
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Abstract
In the years 2004–2014 transport networks in the major Polish cities have changed significantly, mainly because of EU funds. These financial resources helped to overcome the deficiencies in high-quality infrastructure density and new technological solutions. The main aim of this article is to present these changes in the largest Polish cities – Gdansk, Krakow, Lodz, Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw. The starting point was the presentation of the assumptions of the European Union transport policies as well as an identification of the contemporary transport problems in selected cities caused by new urbanisation processes. The main part of the article is the chapter where the scale and scope of transport investments co-financed from EU funds is presented. There is also a comparison between selected cities. In the next part the results of surveys conducted in four selected cities were presented. They focus on opinions on contemporary changes in transport networks and future expectations about the new traffic solutions.References
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