https://doi.org/10.31261/GSS_SN.2018.09.02.05
The article describes the phenomenon of daily commutes to work occurring in the territory of Upper Silesian and Zagłębie Metropolis. The scale of this phenomenon is best illustrated by the fact that every day several hundred thousand of individuals cross the borders of their place of residence to commute to their work place. This phenomenon has been described on the basis of data of the Main Statistic Office for the years 2006 and 2011 — thanks to this the dynamics of changes occurring in the layout of individual communes has been presented. The text lists the communes of the Metropolis which register positive and negative daily balance of commuters. The communes with clear dominance of those arriving rather than departing are Katowice and Gliwice, which are increasingly gaining the character of supralocal markets. The analysis of congestion of traffic of human resources in the territory of the Metropolis indicates very strong connections of individual communes in terms of commuting with distinctive domination of Katowice, which in 2011 witnessed over 122 thousand individuals arriving to work daily— they were mostly the inhabitants of other communes of the Silesia region. Other cities which attract particularly large numbers of commuters on a daily basis are Gliwice (28 000), Dąbrowa Górnicza (17 000), Sosnowiec (15 000) and Tychy (15 000). Taking into consideration the intensity of daily commuting of the inhabitants of the Metropolitan Union, we may undoubtedly prove the territorial integrity of this area — as a labour market of subregional character. The analysis of the phenomenon of the intensity of the daily commuting has an applicational dimension and it may be used in practice in the course of planning an extension or modernisation of the transport system network between the communes with the highest intensity of commuting.
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