%0 Journal Article
%T Access to rail in selected cities in Poland
%A Bocheński, Tadeusz
%J Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/2543859XPKG.16.023.6321
%N 19 (4)
%P 62-71
%K cities, passenger transport, railway, regress of railway network, transport accessibility
%@ 1426-5915
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/pkgkptg/article/dostep-wybranych-miast-w-polsce-do-kolei
%X 
	The aim of the study was an examination access to rail in selected cities in Poland in 2016 and an analysis changes of rail accessibility in the years 1950-2015. It has been investigated the technical (infrastructure) and organizational (service) rail accessibility. The study included cities with over 10 thousand residents in 2014. In 2016 almost 100 cities of this size were deprived of regular passenger rail connections. As a result of the cutting of the rail network in the period 1990-2015 passenger trains stopped in over 60 cities, also rail had never reached to 35 cities. In the next several cities the passenger rail traffic was stopped for a few to several years and then reactivated. The process of cutting the studied cities off from the railway took place in the analysed period with different intensity, with the culmination in the year 2000. In each of the voivodeships, there were cities, including the capitals of districts, cut off the passenger rail traffic.