This article draws attention to the connection between transport planning and the settlement pattern and consequently the need for comprehensive planning of both the settlement and transport system. It primarily focuses on the suburbanization of Ljubljana and the state of public passenger transport in the Ljubljana Urban Region. Certain topical transport studies and measures are discussed from this perspective. The analysis shows the need for comprehensive planning that could be realized in the form of the concept of a polycentric layout of the region with interconnected centers as the main bearers of residential and business functions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34879277
The paper analyses and explains the phenomenon of daily commutes of workers in Slovenia. The first part of the article presents the daily mobility analysis of workers in the ten biggest employment centers between 2000 and 2009. The results indicate shifts in the daily mobility patterns, which is a result of traffic infrastructure development and socioeconomic changes in the urban system. The second part describes the analysis of the worker's mode of transportation and the reasons for the regional differences. We may notice considerable differences, especially in the distinct decline of public transportation use and the increased motorization of the population. Regional differences are also apparent, particularly in the modal split between the western and eastern part of the country and between larger and smaller cities. This can be explained by varying levels of motorization in individual areas, differences in the public transportation system providers, and numerous ways of work process organization in industrial and service centers.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34509101
This paper discusses changes in employee commuting in the ten largest Slovenian employment centers from 2000 to 2009. Based on analysis of the SRDAP database, changes are presented in employee commuter routes between source and target municipalities. The results show a significant increase in both the scope of employee commuting and number of routes. Reasons for these changes are explained by the construction of freeway infrastructure, which has made it possible to travel faster from one municipality to another and to commute to employment centers. The scope and direction of commuting also depend on changes in the socioeconomic structure of the urban system, especially suburbanization, the economic crisis affecting local employment centers, and changing job locations within the regions themselves.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33380909
In the past investigations on the land use and land cover changes in Slovenia the emphasis was laid on the changes in farming areas. Among Slovenian investigators the interest for lands below built structures was much lesser, and they were mainly discussed in relation to the building up of farming lands. In spite of the fact that among the lands below built structures transport areas occupy a large portion, nobody has analysed the changes in these areas in Slovenia yet. The lands used by transport have not aroused interest so far, not even among transport geographers. The ever greater mobility of the population also exerts intense impact on land use. Due to the increase in motorized forms of transport, transport land use is increasing, in suburbanized areas in particular where the daily mobility of workers and school-children is the most intense. In Gorenjska, an above average growth of transport land use is characteristic in some tourist areas. The first part of the research analyses the size of transport areas in the time of traditional agrarian society in the first half of the 19th century. Next, the paper presents the degree of growth of transport areas in different types of settlements in the following 200 years. However, not only the degree of growth of transport areas is important, but also the changing relation between transport areas and other built-up areas, or the relation between transport areas and the number of inhabitants. On the basis of the performed analyses of changes in transport areas we will be able to assess how far individual settling patterns in Gorenjska meet the standards of sustainable development.
COBISS.SI-ID: 52880226
This volume discusses various aspects of planning public transport in the Ljubljana Urban Region, in which it highlights the cooperation between Ljubljana as a metropolis and its functionally connected countryside. After studying the basic social processes that guide developent in this region, such as centralization and suburbanization, it focuses on traf fic and public transport in this region. It analyzes the traffic flows, road use, and commuting, and dedicates special attention to commuting times. Suitable measures and best-practice examples are presented for the cases of unsustainable mobility that were indentified, especially with regard to improving spatial and temporal accessibility and transfer points in the public transport network. Proposals for integrating spatial and transport planning were developed, and ideas about drafting the development of public passenger transport in the selected corridor in the Ljubljana Urban Region were presented.
COBISS.SI-ID: 264215552