Road safety varies significantly across the regions in Europe. To understand the factors behind this differentiation and the effects they have, data covering 263 NUTS-2 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) regions across Europe (European Union and Norway) have been analysed. The assessment was made using Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR). As a dependent variable the Road Fatality Rate (RFR – number of fatalities...

Geographical proximity, common historical roots and collaboration within the Nordic Council make the Nordic countries, often wrongly treated as monoliths. However, in reality, Nordic regions differ in terms of broadly defined social and economic development. Issues concerning the standard of living are one of the priorities of the Helsinki Treaty signed by Nordic countries. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the existence...

A common phenomenon of development is the big difference in its levels, especially between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. Non-metropolitan areas are also very different. In some of them, industry plays a big role. European Union’s NUTS 3 non-metropolitan low developed sub-regions, whose gross domestic product per capita in 2011 was below 75% of the EU average, were the subject of research. It is based on the data and...

Artykuł poświęcony jest analizie poziomu rozwoju wybranych polskich podregionów. Spośród 22 jednostek na poziomie NUTS 3, których granica przynajmniej w części pokrywa się z lądową granicą państwa do badań wybrano 7 sąsiadujących z Republiką Federalną Niemiec i Ukrainą. Do oceny poziomu rozwoju zastosowano standardowy zestaw mierników używany do porównań międzyregionalnych, który nieznacznie zmodyfikowano. Porównywalność danych...