Information system for city logistics. The case of Poland

Abstract According to the European Commission (2007), in the cities particular emphasis should be placed on the implementation of actions that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, noise and other pollutions. The implementation of these objectives requires access to much up-to-date information including the type and size of the flow of goods, passenger car traffic in the city, the number of accidents caused by drivers of trucks and cars, etc. Access to current data can greatly support local authorities in making the right decisions in the field of urban logistics (Malecki et al., 2014). Unfortunately, in most Polish cities such information is not collected or is collected irregularly. Consequently, in many cities decisions concerning the coordination of the flow of cargo and people in the city are made intuitively rather than based on actual data. In this paper the authors have set two - theoretical and empirical - objectives. The theoretical purpose concerns the authorial concept of a simplified city logistics information system. The empirical objective includes an analysis of the current state of logistics information systems in the selected cities and identification of the activities of Polish local governments in collecting and analysing data in the field of people and goods movement within the city. In order to identify the relationships between the extent of information collection; the size of the research city; and the organisation of the task related to the passenger and freight transport, the correspondence analysis was used.