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The Effect of University Campuses on the Modal Split of Polish Cities

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Intelligent Transport Systems and Travel Behaviour

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The article considers the effect Polish public universities have on the characteristics of urban traffic. The article describes how the public university community has changed over 25 years and its share in the urban population. The characteristics of the modal split in Polish university towns is given based on selected cases. The relation between the share of transport modes in the modal split and the size of towns or university communities in total population is analysed. A description is given of the possibilities and justification to optimise urban modal split by managing the mobility of university community populations.

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  1. Highway Engineering Department, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland

    Romanika Okraszewska, Aleksandra Romanowska & Kazimierz Jamroz

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Okraszewska, R., Romanowska, A., Jamroz, K. (2017). The Effect of University Campuses on the Modal Split of Polish Cities. In: Sierpiński, G. (eds) Intelligent Transport Systems and Travel Behaviour. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 505. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43991-4_6

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