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  • Hanna Obracht-Prondzyńska dr inż. arch.

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    Hanna Obracht-Prondzyńska, PhD MArch, Eng. Assistant Professor at the University of Gdańsk, Department of Spatial Management, academic teacher of urban design and spatial data analyses. Architect and urban planner experienced in data driven urban design and planning. She defended her PhD with distinction in engineering and technical sciences in the discipline of architecture and urban planning in 2020 at the Faculty of Architecture...

  • Dorota Dominika Kamrowska-Załuska dr hab. inż. arch.

    Prof. Dorota Kamrowska-Zaluska, architect and urban planner, Associate Professor and Director of mid-career program on Urban development and management of metropolitan areas, at the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology; Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow at several research institutions incl. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013), Charted Urban Planner...

  • Joanna Bach-Głowińska dr inż. arch.

    I am an architect by education (M.Sc. Arch 1994) and practice (1994-2011), a Town Planner by practice (1999-2017, Ministerial Entitlements 1655/2002), and a Researcher (Ph.D.2012, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Glasgow School of Art 2013 - 2015, also teaching on Gdansk University of Technology since 2014). I have been the Principal Investigator of Era Net Urban Transformation Capacities EmbedterLabs: Better Embedded Labs for More...

  • How to teach architecture? – Remarks on the edge of Polish transformation processes after 1989

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    The political changes in Poland after 1989 have resulted in a whole range of dynamic processes including the transformation of space. Until that time the established institutional framework for spatial, urban and architectural planning policy was based on uniform provisions of the so-called planned economy. The same applied to the training of architects, which was based on a unified profile of education provided at the state’s...

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  • The issues of participation in didactics of design. Case studies

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    This article seeks to present and assess the usefulness of didactic methods aimed at preparing future architects for their role in the process of social participation. The article focuses on [a] a general overview of selected participation methods and tools, along with the examples of their application in the context of spatial management in Poland; [b] an overview of teaching methods used with a view to enhancing participation...

  • Natalia Sokół dr inż.

    BACKGROUND       Master of Science in Light and Lighting (2008-2009/11) The UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, Faculty of the Built Environment, London, UK, www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk       MA Degree in Interior Architecture (1999-2004), The Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, www.uap.edu.pl       MA Degree in Art Education (1997-2002), Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, www.uap.edu.pl MAIN RESEARCH AREAS ·         ...

  • Teaching infrastructure urbanism to aid participatory planning

    The teaching of urban planning at faculties of architecture entails constant tension, caused by issues related to the priorities among urban design (the form) and urban planning (the process). The authors note that knowledge of the relationship between urban design and infrastructure planning, particularly within the realm of public debate within the local community, is of key importance in educating young urban planners. Described...

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  • Greencoin as an AI-Based Solution Shaping Climate Awareness.

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    Our research aim was to define possible AI-based solutions to be embedded in the Green- coin project, designed as a supportive tool for smart cities to achieve climate neutrality. We used Kamrowska-Załuska’s approach for evaluating AI-based solutions’ potential in urban planning. We narrowed down the research to the educational and economic aspects of smart cities. Furthermore, we used a systematic literature review. We propose...

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  • Local Planning

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Radziszewska
    • M. Arczyńska

    The aim of the course is to present the practical tools for local development. It integrates joint activities of various entities (local government units, private entities, residents) in order to transform a specific space as well as possible ways to procure urban or architectural project and funding.

  • Big Data in Regenerative Urban Design

    Why the use of Big Data in regenerative planning matters? The aim of this chapter is to study under what conditions Big Data can be integrated into regenerative design and sustainable planning? Authors seek to answer how – when related to the ecosystem and to human activities – Big Data can be used to: • both shape policies that support the development of regenerative human settlements, • support restorative design for practitioners...

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  • Magdalena Rembeza dr inż. arch.

    Magdalena Rembeza jest adiunktem w Katedrze Urbanistyki i Planowania Regionalnego na Wydziale Architektury Politechniki Gdańskiej. Jest również członkiem Zarządu Forum Rewitalizacji Stowarzyszenie, członkiem Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich (TUP )  oraz International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP). W latach 2009-2014 była kierownikem studiów podyplomowych Politechniki Gdańskiej: „Rewitalizacja architektoniczno-urbanistyczna...

  • Computer-Aided Automated Greenery Design—Towards a Green BIM

    Contemporary climate challenges are changing the architect’s awareness, which results in a broader spectrum of interest. The available software enables the design of vegetation, but it is often very limited and requires specialist knowledge. The available software allows the creation of individual solutions based on visual algorithms or writing scripts; however, they are still not common methods used in architecture and urban planning....

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  • Koncepcja metropolitalnego slow-przedmieścia jako narzędzie poprawy jakości życia w międzymieście

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    Powstałe wskutek suburbanizacji struktury uznawane są za nową formę krajobrazu zurbanizowanego. Poprawa ich jakości wymaga stworzenia nowych narzędzi planowania międzymiasta (niem. die Zwischenstadt). Należą do nich innowacyjne wizje przestrzenne, kreujące alternatywę dla globalnych trendów homogenizujących kulturę życia społecznego w strefi e podmiejskiej. Inspirowana modelem agri-hood autorska koncepcja slow-przedmieścia wykorzystuje doświadczenie...

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  • Risking It All or Here Comes the Flood

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    - Year 2018

    The professional reality is interdisciplinary! When city transformation and evolution starts, what are the tools for successful strategies for urban interventions? How does digital planning for digital fabrication processes look like? How dedicated are the new professionals? And how does this all influence the future of bridge design? More than 60 students representing various disciplines of built environment and working together...

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  • Local Planning - Summer 2024

    e-Learning Courses
    • S. Abbasi
    • Ł. Pancewicz

    Local Planning, Spatial Management Course focuses on the practical aspects of the local planning both spatial and communal. Topics such as policy measures and tools used by the local government to guide provision of the local services and planning will be discussed. The course is complementary to 'Comprehensive Planning'. Course is delivered in English.  

  • Recommendations for Urban Freight Policy Development in Gdynia

    The purpose of this paper was to provide practical recommendations on how to develop Gdynia’s urban freight policy based on actual planning experience and characteristics of potential measures. Freight policy scheme was developed as a result of three interrelated factors: a) the general procedure of the urban freight planning, b) the city's current planning stage analysis and, c) characteristics of urban freight objectives and...

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  • Urban Vegetation in Air Quality Management: A Review and Policy Framework

    Recent episodes of high air pollution concentration levels in many Polish cities indicate the urgent need for policy change and for the integration of various aspects of urban development into a common platform for local air quality management. In this article, the focus was placed on the prospects of improving urban air quality through proper design and protection of vegetation systems within local spatial planning strategies....

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  • Small Urban Hacks - Big Impact! Tackling major urban challenges through acupunctural smallness

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    • D. D. Kamrowska-Załuska
    • D. Calas
    • E. Haselsteiner,
    • M. Ferreira SILVA
    • A. Galán González
    • E. Giancola
    • M. Hărmănescu
    • S. Soutullo Castro

    - Year 2021

    Small urban hacks, acupunctural action and process-oriented planning approaches might appear to address quite a socio-romantic attitude towards our urban environments. In this chapter, our aim is to remedy such a biased view, demonstrating the impact and potential of smallness in the context of major urban challenges. Small urban hacks and their multi-faceted and creativity-driven approaches of small is beautiful are selected from...

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  • DETERMINATION OF OBJECTIVES FOR URBAN FREIGHT POLICY

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    - LogForum - Year 2014

    Background: Decisions regarding strategic planning of urban freight transport very often are based on superficial assumptions inadequately reflecting the actual character of encountered challenges. The trend may be observed to adapt isolated solutions without supporting measures and verification of expected outcomes. Selected urban freight solutions have a significant potential to alleviate transport related problems, but they...

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  • Role of public space in designing complex urban structures

    The aim of this article is to present the main assumptions about design studios as held in the Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk University of Technology (FA-GUT), Gdańsk, Poland, adapted to the development of key competencies in the urban planning of complex urban structures. One of these competencies is the design of public spaces. The main goal of the studios was to deliver knowledge of the role of public spaces in the design...

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  • Planning for the redevelopment of the Imperial Shipyard - a key eleemnt of Gdańsk waterfront

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    - Year 2016

    This article deals with the planning and implementation of the new urban concept for the young city development structure in Gdańsk

  • Urban Design I. Urban Composition fall 2022_23

    e-Learning Courses
    • G. Rembarz
    • B. Bou Kalfouni

    The course is aimed at students of the 3rd semester of engineering studies in the field of Architecture. It is an introductory course to Urban Design. Students learn the basic concepts and principles related to town planning, urban design and urban composition. Students learn the methods of analyzing urban space and the basic principles of design during theoretical and practical classes, designing an urban composition for a specific...

  • Urban Design I. Urban Composition fall 2023_24

    e-Learning Courses
    • G. Rembarz
    • B. Bou Kalfouni

    The course is aimed at students of the 3rd semester of engineering studies in the field of Architecture. It is an introductory course to Urban Design. Students learn the basic concepts and principles related to town planning, urban design and urban composition. Students learn the methods of analyzing urban space and the basic principles of design during theoretical and practical classes, designing an urban composition for a specific...

  • Weronika Maria Mazurkiewicz dr inż. arch.

    Jest adiunktem na Wydziale Architektury Politechniki Gdańskiej w Katedrze Urbanistyki i Planowania Regionalnego oraz czynnym architektem urbanistą.Od 2018 roku jest również członkiem Zarządu Towarzystwa Urbanistów Polskich oraz stowarzyszenia AESOP (Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures). Odbyła staże badawcze w kilku instytucjach badawczych w tym University of Ljubljana, University of Technology of Wiena, University...

  • Romanika Okraszewska dr inż. arch.

    Romanika Okraszewska, Ph.D., Eng. Arch., is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT). Graduated from the mathematical and informatical class at the National Education Commission High School in Gdańsk. Graduated from two faculties of Gdańsk University of Technology, Architecture and Urban Planning (2002) and Management and Economics (2004). Participant...

  • Exploring the Institutional and Bottom-Up Actions for Urban Air Quality Improvement: Case Studies in Antwerp and Gdańsk

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    - Sustainability - Year 2021

    The article presents the results of qualitative studies concerning the presence of air quality management in the process of urban planning and in the public discourse in Antwerp, Belgium, and Gdańsk, Poland. We focused on the way urban planners, environmental experts, and stakeholders perceive the problem of air pollution, especially with respect to urban development policy, and whether they consider it one of the major factors...

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  • Urban Design I. Urban Composition fall 2024/25

    e-Learning Courses
    • M. Ahmadi
    • G. Rembarz

    The course is aimed at students of the 3rd semester of engineering studies in the field of Architecture. It is an introductory course to Urban Design. Students learn the basic concepts and principles related to town planning, urban design and urban composition. Students learn the methods of analyzing urban space and the basic principles of design during theoretical and practical classes, designing an urban composition for a specific...

  • The Role of Greenery and Traffic Calming Measures in Planning of Road Infrastracture

    The role of greenery and traffi c calming measures in road infrastructure planning. The “life” of a town is connected with its infrastructure. So it is that, apart from serving their principal function, motorways, roads, airports and other facilities which make transport possible largely determine contemporary urban design. To achieve balanced forms of urban infrastructure that ensure comfort, safety and spatial order, it is necessary when...

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  • Structure of the register of immovable monuments in terms of the typological groups of large-scale monuments by voivodeship - comparison of 2016 and 2024

    The following dataset compares the structure of the register of immovable monuments in Poland regarding the typological groups of large-scale monuments by voivodeship for 2016 and 2024. The typological groups of large-scale monuments included:

  • Design thinking (DT) for the design and planning education of engineer-architects

    Engineers are facing new challenges connected with globalisation, digitisation and the increased complexity of the design process. This calls for new, more interdisciplinary and user-oriented approaches to problem- solving. In this article, the authors analyse design thinking (DT) as a method to support the education of engineers specialising in architecture and urban planning. Identified in this study are the opportunities this...

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  • Development of planning education in postcommunist Poland.

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    - Year 2018

    Although programs in spatial planning at university level have been developed in Poland only after the transformation of 1989, their roots can be traced back to the first half of the twentieth century when the first university departments with a focus on urban and regional planning were established and courses offered. Today, planning education in Poland presents a robust yet dynamic picture with degrees offered by a range of...

  • Development of planning education in postcommunist Poland.

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    - Year 2018

    Although programs in spatial planning at university level have been developed in Poland only after the transformation of 1989, their roots can be traced back to the first half of the twentieth century when the first university departments with a focus on urban and regional planning were established and courses offered. Today, planning education in Poland presents a robust yet dynamic picture with degrees offered by a range of both...

  • SafeCity – a GIS-based tool profiled for supporting decision making in urban development and infrastructure protection

    This paper presents a system for analysis of municipal Critical Infrastructures, which offers integrated tools for target analysis, hazard scenario simulations and spatial analysis within a remotely accessible Web-based Geographic Information System. The system has been applied to research conducted in the city of Gdansk with the aid of blast attack, chemical leakage and flood hazard scenarios, as well as a spatial density algorithm,...

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  • LIGHT POLLUTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THREATS TO THE WILDLIFE CORRIDORS

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    - Year 2016

    Access to remote sensing night-time imagery allows for modeling of light pollution Increasingly, data on the propagation of artificial light are a source of interesting information for different fields of science and affect the planning of economic development. The article presents the problem of light pollution in the context of threats to the wildlife corridors in Poland. Wildlife corridors are areas that allow safe migration...

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  • Sources of investment risk in urban regeneration projects

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    - Czasopismo Techniczne - Year 2014

    The scope of the article includes multidimensional risk analysis of urban regeneration projects, whose base is to identify areas of its occurrence. Authors thoroughly analyze the sources of potential threats and attempts to answer the question, what is their contribution into overall urban regeneration’ investment risk. The target concept will be used to assess the level of investment risk at the stage of initiation, preparation...

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  • Monika Arczyńska dr inż. arch.

    Architect and researcher with over 10 years of international experience in cultural projects. She has been working on the designs of Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Palestinian Museum in East Bank, Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre and National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow (with Heneghan Peng Architects). As a founder of A2P2 architecture & planning she runs architecture department of the company. In 2018 together with...

  • Concrete versus green corridors in road planning. Gdansk case

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    The aim of an article is to present the threats which may be caused by the construction of the transit road inside the city structure, and some mitigation measures aiming to eliminate or minimize environmental and landscape damages and social problems. Theoretical guidelines and conclusions will be followed by the example illustrating the problem. As an answer, some guidelines enabling sustainable road planning will be presented....

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  • Urban regeneration in urban functional areas in Poland as an instrument of implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy

    This study examines the role of urban regeneration policies in planning and governance within urban functional areas (UFAs) in Poland, in the context of the EU Cohesion Policy (CP). The empirical part of this study is based on comparing the approaches adopted in two Polish regions: Pomerania and Silesia. We describe the first successes but also the bottlenecks of the process, from negotiations and programming up to the implementation...

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  • Relevance of Urban Freight Transport Modelling Towards the Challenges of Urban Freight Policy

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    - Year 2017

    The main objective of this paper is to investigate how recent trends in urban freight transport analysis and modelling are related to urban freight measures set out in Gdynia’s 2016 Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan. Building on the literature a review framework was defined including 1) stakeholders, 2) descriptors, 3) objectives and 4) solution approach applied in freight modelling efforts. It was clear that the implementation...

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  • Shaping the new planning curricula in the post-socialistic context lessons from Poland and Russia

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    Planning education is the issue widely discussed during various conferences and seminars, especially ones grouping the representatives of universities offering professional education in this field. But to large extend this discourse is dominated by the realities and specifics of the highly- developed countries, which is also reflected in the structure of the organizations of universities offering these. At the same time planning...

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  • PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE / Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces, 23-27 May 2017, Ljubljana Slovenia

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    - Year 2017

    The Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) and partners hosted a 5-day international event addressing participatory planning of local urban public space in socially, economically and ethnically diverse communities. The event was structured in three interrelated activities: a seminar, a workshop and a field-trip. Special emphasis was given to the means of revealing shared values that local inhabitants and other...

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  • Interactive and Media Architecture – From Social Encounters to City Planning Strategies

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    The paper searches into the potential of media and interactive projects to support participation and generate social encounters in public spaces. Moreover, it proposes implementation of media and interactive projects into city planning processes. On the basis of theoretical approaches, case studies and interdisciplinary surveys the paper gives insight how interactive and media architecture can engage people in activities in urban...

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  • Transforming the Gdansk Bay Area

    The political transformation of Poland in the early nineties from a centrally steered economy to a free market economy entailed changes of the spatial planning system. The impact of these changes on the spatial transformations and current shape of urban structures in the Gdansk Bay Metropolitan Area is apparent and significant. The paper concentrates on the present spatial phenomena of Gdansk Agglomeration resulting from the main...

  • Strengthening the local communities’ competence for engaging in participatory planning

    The article describes the genesis of undertaking the subject of improving the planning competencies in local communities, in order to eliminate communication gaps to strengthen the civil attitudes. It puts forward a thesis that innovation in this issue involves creation of new participatory planning techniques, i.e. the described urban mentoring model. Describing the inclinations for undertaking the subject of the “Quo Vadis Gdansk?...

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  • PLANNING AND ANALYSIS OF EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF WORK IN ETHIOPIA

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    - Year 2019

    This paper addresses dynamic planning and analysis of earthquake disaster relief work by analysis the disaster throughout the technical and procedural method. And combine this analysis as continues assessment for better input to investigating planning disaster for discontinuous economic growth. This implemented, considering the vulnerability and hazard analysis as a procedural analysis disaster to estimating acceptance risk leveling...

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  • Dynamic GNSS Mission Planning Using DTM for Precise Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles

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    Nowadays, the most widely used method for estimating location of autonomous vehicles in real time is the use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). However, positioning in urban environments using GNSS is hampered by poor satellite geometry due to signal obstruction created by both man-made and natural features of the urban environment. The presence of obstacles is the reason for the decreased number of observed satellites...

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  • Theorey of Urbanism

    e-Learning Courses
    • P. Lorens

    This course provides an insight into the current urban design and planning issues takin into account main problem issues associated with contemporary urban development.

  • Aleksandra Sas-Bojarska prof. dr hab. inż. arch.

  • The green waterfront of a city. Where are the limits of good planning? Gdansk case

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    - Year 2013

    The aim of the article is to present the role of green public areas of waterfronts in shaping the image of cities, and the threats to such landscape which may be caused by wrong planning decisions. The case study of Gdansk sea-shore area in Poland is presented as an example to illustrate the values and potential of the waterfront landscape which can be easily destroyed by inadequate spatial development. Some theoretical studies...

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  • Urban Freight Transport Demand Modelling and Data Availability Constraints

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    - Year 2018

    The paper provides a review of urban freight transport demand modelling approaches confronted with constrains regarding adequate data provision from a perspective of the local authorities. Demand estimation models has been selected as a reference because they are the most representative in terms of inclusion of urban freight indicators which can be transformed into a decision-support tool for evaluation of freight measures. The...

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