Urban streets are ruled by Lewis-Mogridge position. This, so called, iron law of congestion, describes the relationship between the construction of roads and road traffic. According to Mogridge (1990) traffic expands to meet the available... »
The article below is a draft submitted to the Transport Research Arena 2016 conference. Traffic lights in urban transport systems are often designed to take into account the situation on the road, i.e. detect vehicles and optimize road... »
On May the 5th the Green Mazovia Association organized a happening in favor of ground-level pedestrian crossings near the Warsaw Central raiway station. Partner organizations from the Wheeler Federation took part in the happening which... »
On 15th May 2012 under the project SUSTRANS Green Mazovia organized a meeting on energy efficiency in Polish transport policy. The meeting was attended by representatives of two ministries: transport and environment, city hall: public... »
During the last 10 years many road construction and modernisation projects in Warsaw included elevators as means to provide accessibility of grade separated pedestrian crossing for people with walking difficulty, wheelchair or pram. During... »
To: - Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for Regional Policy. Copy to: - Dirk Ahner, European Commission’s Regional Policy Directorate-General; - EESC European Economic and Social Committee. Concerning: Poland. Re: Planned shifts... »
Transportation has an obvious and strong climate impact and plays a key role in the quality of life in towns. To decrease GHG emissions and improve everyday life we must reduce the share of private car in the modal split. In Poland people... »
Full internalisation of external costs of transport is a basic need for better intermodality as it was shown in European policy documents and analyses. Only then real costs of transport will be bared by user. This should force him to seek... »
(Translation from Polish by Konrad Dybek) Politicians and bureaucrats in Poland are dashing to manifest admiration of John Paul II. Pictures from a papal audience or a mass often appear during election campaign to give a candidate more... »
Rospuda River Valley is located in North-East Poland, near Augustow town. That area, popular tourist destination, "land of a thousand lakes" is also recognized as green lungs of Europe together with adjacent forests of Belarus, Lithuania... »
Warsaw is a city with 1,7 mln inhabitants, 0,8 mln cars and 1,0 mln bikes. Most of trips are made by public transport (68%) and private cars (30%), only 0,6%-2,0% by bike. Bicycles are perceived as means of recreation, not transport. The... »
On 14 January 2003 the Polish Government approved a document called Narodowy Plan Rozwoju (National development plan), which will put forward how Poland is going to use the European Union funds in the years 2004 - 2006 (the aid is about 11... »
Poland is privileged to have relatively few motorways compared to almost everywhere else in Europe, but with EU accession looming, the possibility that the government would keep it this way and instigate a programme of strengthening the... »
The draft of the new law on road construction violates not only the Polish Constitution, but also the following acts: Environmental Protection Law, Construction Law, Act on Real Estate Management, Administrative Procedure Code, and the... »
On Thursday, 21st February, activists from several environmental groups held a protest at the Ministry of Finance's recent decision to cut public spending in sectors such as health care, education and public transport, whilst increasing... »
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