Abstract
The aim of the research is to identify and quantify the direct sustainable effects resulting from the improved road infrastructure in the local urban-port transport system. This case study considers the city port of Szczecin (Poland). The effects are identified for the local road transport system by comparing freight road transport performance in two options: with the investment and without the investment. The sustainable effects are quantified in terms of money and physical units. Sustainable economic, social, and environmental effects concern generalized freight road transport cost, i.e., truck operating costs and costs of truck drivers’ working time, as well as freight transit time, energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental savings. To capture effects, the forecast of truck traffic demand, as well as unit vehicle operating costs, values of time, and air pollution and climate change, values are elaborated and revealed in freight road transport. The investigations show that the primary effect of investment is the reduced traffic congestion, which enhance the velocity of trucks in the transport system. The increased trucks′ speed affect freight road traffic performance, time of delivery, and environmental externalities.
Highlights
Relations between city and port are a dynamically evolving area of multifaceted studies
Environmental, and social effects in monetary and nonmonetary terms induced by the enhanced capacity of the port-urban road system? Our study elaborates on the local urban-port road transport system in the (Baltic) port city of Szczecin (Poland), and it concentrates on the captive market and the road freight traffic
The effects of investment are identified by comparing transport performance in two scenarios—with the investment and without the investment—while the analysis addresses freight road transport performance as a result of the increased truck traffic velocity in the reconstructed road transport
Summary
Relations between city and port are a dynamically evolving area of multifaceted studies. Reviews on methodologies and measurements of the transport economics sustainable effects are found in several studies [17,18,19,20], while issues of environmental and social transport developments are extensively elaborated in [21,22,23,24]. There is a lack of evidence on the sustainable effects of intervention in the port–city interface This manuscript fills these research gaps and elaborates the link between the provision of road infrastructure and the sustainable effects in the port-related freight road traffic. Our study elaborates on the local urban-port road transport system in the (Baltic) port city of Szczecin (Poland), and it concentrates on the captive market (first–last mile urbanport road system) and the road freight traffic. The modernized road system is scheduled to be operational from 2024, and the effects of its improved capacity have been set for 20 years (between 2024 and 2043)
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