Mankowski C, Weiland D, Abramović B. Impact of Railway Investment on Regional Development – Case Study of Pomeranian... CEZARY MAŃKOWSKI, Ph.D.1 Transportation Economy E-mail:
[email protected] Preliminary Communication DARIUSZ WEILAND, M.Sc.1 Submitted: 10 Apr. 2019 E-mail:
[email protected] Accepted: 2 Oct. 2019 BORNA ABRAMOVIĆ, Ph.D.2 (Corresponding author) E-mail:
[email protected] 1 University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Economics A. Krajowej 119/121, 81-824 Sopot, Poland 2 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences Vukelićeva 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia IMPACT OF RAILWAY INVESTMENT ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT – CASE STUDY OF POMERANIAN METROPOLITAN RAILWAY ABSTRACT in the region, and sometimes initiated a discussion on From the regional development point of view new invest- the role of PMR in the region; however, no scientific ments are always of great importance as they are mainly analyses on the impact of this investment were done. expected to boost the regional economy and thus improve Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to assess the the living standard of inhabitants. Also for the literature pur- PMR impact on the Pomeranian region and to present poses a new case study on the impact of investments on the analysis results. In this research the impact is mea- regional development can be perceived as an added value sured in four aspects: social, economic, innovation, to the state of the art and thus worthy to be explored. In this and environmental. These aspects are also used as research the impact is measured in the following aspects: the main criteria, whose more detailed sub-criteria in social, economic, innovation, and environmental, which the form of text (qualitative) or numeric (quantitative) stand also for the main assessment criteria.