Sustainable transport for border areas in the European Union

Więckowski, Marek

doi:10.7163/eu21.2021.40.9

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“…It has also been the subject of extensive debate relating to the regional-policy paradigm as it relates to border regions (Jakubowski & Miszczuk, 2021). Projects financed under European Territorial Cooperation, an important component of EU Cohesion Policy, play a special role in the pursuit of cross-border cooperation, with a primary objective of harmonious economic, social and territorial development of the EU being promoted (Więckowski, 2021). Experience shows that the projects involved here usually constitute the most important form of cross-border institutional cooperation, as pursued at local and regional levels.…”

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Premises and barriers associated with cross-border cooperation - evidence from border regions of Poland

Raczyk,

Dołzbłasz

2022

Europa XXI

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The aim of the work detailed here has been to identify the most important premises upon which cross-border cooperation can be established, the conditions for its further continuation or lack of continuation; and the key barriers to and benefits from the cooperation in question. Also examined was the intensity of cooperation in the periods before, during and after the implementation of individual cross-border cooperation projects – the aim being to assess the extent to which joint projects generate mutual relations of greater intensity. Analysis drew on a questionnaire survey run among all organisations involved in the implementation of Poland’s EU-funded cross-border cooperation projects in the 2007–2020 period.

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Premises and barriers associated with cross-border cooperation - evidence from border regions of Poland

Raczyk,

Dołzbłasz

2022

Europa XXI

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“…The ambiguous role of the EU in strengthening or weaking polities' significance is pointed to here. In the second essay, Więckowski (2021) considers the importance of sustainable transport in border areas, stressing the latter's regular status as rather little-modified from an environmental point of view. This of course means a potential for cross-border cooperation to develop at odds with the objective of protecting natural (or even cultural) heritage.…”

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Editorial: New challenges for European cross-border and transboundary cooperation

Komornicki

2022

Eur. XXI

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While a gradual increase in the permeability of the boundaries present in Europe was long seen as a linear process irreversible in nature, that situation in fact started to change around 2015. The process that then ensued reflected crises associated with influxes of refugees, the geopolitical situation in Ukraine, and then, from 2020 onwards, the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes might further be set against the two facts that there are, on the one hand, numerous locations in which cross-border or transboundary functional connections have become so strong that mechanisms hitherto acting in support of their development simply fail to suffice; as well as, on the other hand, many near-border areas that remain entirely peripheral. Pandemic circumstances made plain the inadequate level of institutional support extended to the development and functioning of transboundary functional areas, including as regards, their labour markets. And so to the articles brought together in the present edition of ‘Europa XXI’, which seek to address the above issues and derived research questions. They do this by way of both general reflection and the concrete results of research carried out on the situations in border areas, as well as the conditioning, level and structure of border traffic. Taken together, the texts presented here incline the reader to conclude that EU support for cross-border or transboundary cooperation needs redefining even in the present, and all the more so as we arrive at further programming periods. The support in question ought to be coordinated more effectively with Cohesion Policy as a whole, while also taking the global geopolitical context into account. It should also address matters of cross-border or transboundary public services, resilience in the face of crisis, and the natural heritage present in or constituted by border zones.

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Pasażerskie połączenia kolejowe jako element sieci powiązań międzynarodowych polskich regionów

Majewski

2023

Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG

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Artykuł prezentuje, na przykładzie powiązań grupy miast pełniących rolę stolic regionów w Polsce i graniczących z nimi regionów zagranicznych, różnice pomiędzy powiązaniami infrastrukturalnymi a ofertą przewozową dostępną w transporcie kolejowym. Analiza poszczególnych relacji pozwala na porównanie potencjalnych i rzeczywistych możliwości realizacji podróży. Pierwsza część pracy opisuje metodę badań i wykorzystywane źródła oraz zawiera analizę potencjału infrastrukturalnego oraz rzeczywistej oferty przewozowej. Druga część przedstawia uporządkowane zestawienie parametrów połączeń realizowanych między miastami wojewódzkimi a stolicami sąsiadujących państw i regionów zagranicznych. W części trzeciej zaprezentowana została ocena i opis stopnia wykorzystania potencjału infrastrukturalnego. Całość zamyka podsumowanie, wskazujące na niską, w wielu przypadkach nieuzasadnioną uwarunkowaniami zewnętrznymi, jakość kolejowych powiązań międzynarodowych polskich regionów. Rail passenger connections as an element of the network of international links of Polish regions Using the example of links between a group of cities acting as regional capitals in Poland and bordering foreign regions, the article presents the differences between the infrastructure links and the transport offer available in rail transport. The analysis of individual relations allows for a comparison of potential and actual travel possibilities. The first part of the study describes the research method and sources used, and includes an analysis of the infrastructure potential and the actual transport offer. The second part presents a structured overview of the parameters of connections made between provincial cities and the capitals of neighbouring countries and foreign regions. The third part presents an assessment and description of the degree of utilisation of the infrastructure potential. The whole is concluded by a summary, indicating the low quality, in many cases unjustified by external conditions, of international railway connections of Polish regions.

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Sustainable transport for border areas in the European Union

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Premises and barriers associated with cross-border cooperation - evidence from border regions of Poland

Premises and barriers associated with cross-border cooperation - evidence from border regions of Poland

Editorial: New challenges for European cross-border and transboundary cooperation

Pasażerskie połączenia kolejowe jako element sieci powiązań międzynarodowych polskich regionów

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