Abstract
The article covers characteristics of the methodology of studying business activity in the freight road transport in Poland. Such studies have been conducted at the Motor Transport Institute in Warsaw, every quarter of a year, for over 16 years now. Studying business activity forms one of the essential methods of the systematic monitoring and analysing current situation in the selected branch of the economy. Its objective is also to anticipate the directions of changes with respect to the nearest future. The article contains evaluation of the economic condition of the road transport enterprises, conducting domestic and international haulage of goods.
Highlights
Correct functioning of every country’s economy is subject to many factors, and among them beneficial and stable activity on the transport market
The results of studying business situation in the road transport may turn out to be useful in preventing negative occurrences on the transport market
Studying business situation in the freight haulage by the road transport in Poland have been conducted at the Motor Transport Institute in Warsaw, since 1997
Summary
Correct functioning of every country’s economy is subject to many factors, and among them beneficial and stable activity on the transport market. Studying business situation in the freight haulage by the road transport in Poland have been conducted at the Motor Transport Institute in Warsaw, since 1997. The purpose of these researches is systematic monitoring of the activity, in one of the more important branches of the economy, that the freight road transport is, as well as obtaining information about expected changes of this situation in the nearest foreseeable future. Studying business situation entails recording changes in the factors affecting situation on the transport market, processing them and analysing, with respect to the level and degree of their occurrence, which allows to determine causes and course of the business activity fluctuation. Business situation is shaped by a demand, supply of the transport services, costs of conducting haulage operations, including fuel prices, employment situation, competition amongst the carriers, legislative and fiscal system, etc
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