Changes in travel time and the load of road network,
depending on the diversifcation of working hours:
case study the Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
MARTA BOROWSKA-STEFAŃSKA, MICHAŁ KOWALSKI, SZYMOn WIŚnIEWSKI
GEOGRAFIE 125/2 (2020)
University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Institute of the Built Environment and
Spatial Policy, Lodz, Poland; e-mail: marta.borowska@geo.uni.lodz.pl, michal.kowalski@geo.
uni.lodz.pl, szymon.wisniewski@geo.uni.lodz.pl
ABSTRACT Tis article has two major goals – a methodological and a research one. Te former is
the development of a method enabling the prediction of the load of the road network, while the
latter focuses on determining the infuence commuting has on the load of the road network and
changes in travel time within the łódź Voivodeship. For the purposes of this study proprietary
we used sofware based on a greedy algorithm. Te applied method in combination with the
proprietary sofware returns good results when directions of trafc fows are under scrutiny.
Te assumptions made herein do simplify reality, a simplifcation which stems from the quality
of the available data and the calculating capacity of computers. On the other hand, the research
goal has only been partially reached with regard to the method applied in the article.
KEY WORDS transport geography – daily mobility – commuting to work – congestion – individual
transport – łódź voivodeship – Poland
BOROWSKA-STEFAŃSKA, M., KOWALSKI, M., WIŚNIEWSKI, S. (2020): Changes in travel time and
the load of road network, depending on the diversifcation of working hours: case study the
łódź Voivodeship, Poland. Geografe, 125, 2, 211–241.
https://doi.org/10.37040/geografe2020125020211
Received August 2018, accepted January 2020.
© Česká geografcká společnost, z. s., 2020