The paper examines selected motorization level indicators (the number of registered motor vehicles and passenger cars) for the following cities: Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kraków, and Szczecin. The values of these indicators were correlated with investment expenditures from the city budget for the development of road infrastructure. The determined values of Pearson correlation coefficients were compared with threshold values taking into account the sample size. As a result of the analysis, it was found that there is no significant correlation between motorization level indicators and investment expenditures from the budget for all the cities studied. The paper raises the question of whether the growing motorization indicators in Poland are accompanied by an adequate increase in investment outlays for road infrastructure, which is one of the factors determining road traffic safety. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine