Wpływ drogi S14 na rozwój terenów leżących w jej obszarze oddziaływania
The Influence of the S14 Expressway on the Development of Areas Lying in its Impact Area

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, several thousand kilometers of expressways and highways have been commissioned in Poland. In order for them to fulfill their functions, they must be included in the communication system through road nodes and other elements of the transport infrastructure. Only thanks to a good combination they can lead to specific benefits such as generating development impulses for the economy, fulfilling the function of city bypasses, increasing road safety in urban areas. This article tackles this issue in the Łódź agglomeration and the route that will be the cause of these potential benefits is the S14 expressway. The aim of the article is to conduct research on the impact of the S14 route on the possibility of an increase in the number of passengers at the Władysław Reymont Airport in Łódź and investors in the Łódź Special Economic Zone. The aim is also to examine the impact of S14 on the development of investments in the area of impact of the studied road and increase the number of inhabitants of selected cities of the Łódź agglomeration. The empirical research used in this work was financed from the Student Research Grants awarded by the Rector of the University of Lodz in 2017.

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