Abstract
The main aim of this paper is to assess sustainable transport development, particularly in Polish voivodeships, as well as to identify underdeveloped geographical areas. In order to deal with this research topic, both classical and multivariate order statistical measures were implemented into the research process. The source of information for the research was the data drawn from BDL (Bank of Local Data) Statistics Poland. The rankings of Polish voivodeships were obtained for sustainable transport development and its individual components in the form of three orders: environmental, social and economic. This allowed us to identify underdeveloped regions in the area of transport sustainability and its particular aspects. It should be noted that we applied both the original set of diagnostic variables and their classification into particular orders. However, the choice of variables was mostly conditioned by the availability of data. Furthermore, this was the first time that the taxonomic methods applied here, featuring the implementation of the multidimensional Weber median, have been used to assess aspects of transport sustainability. This kind of synthetic method design allowed us to consider the interactions between different areas of a sophisticated transportation system and made our analysis immune to skewing by diagnostic variables.
Highlights
Poland’s accession to the European Union led to its adoption of the strategic aims of the European Union’s transport policy
The data presented in the previous chapter, which are called the potential set of diagnostic variables, was statistically investigated for variation and correlation analysis
It is worth mentioning that these types of statistical measures should be used in the statistical verification of the potential data set and in synthetic measure construction as well
Summary
Poland’s accession to the European Union led to its adoption of the strategic aims of the European Union’s transport policy. This was due to the fact that transportation is considered one of the main components of sustainable development. The negative effects include such problems as greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, accidents, etc., which affect both humans’ wellbeing and quality of life. Transport is considered one of the cornerstones of globalization [3] All of these factors create a lot of pressure to implement policies in order to reduce pollution, noise emission, oil consumption and the number of accident victims. One of the purposes of the European Union is to create a competitive and resource-efficient transport system in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions [5]
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