The Economic Geography of the Car Market: The Automobile Revolution in an Emerging Economy

208 Pages·2022·22.416 MB·English

by  Bartłomiej Kołsut, Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz

The Economic Geography
of the Car Market
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of long-term changes in the
car market of an emerging economy, with a focus on its spatial and temporal
dimensions. Poland, the case study in question, represents a unique “laboratory of
automobile revolution” during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The volume
brings to the fore several key aspects of the car market, such as car ownership,
markets for new cars, import of second-hand cars, car use, electromobility and
environmental impact. Many of them are the subject of a global debate in the
context of achieving sustainable development goals. Others, meanwhile, point
to the unique nature of transformations related to the car market in Poland.
Altogether, consideration of these aspects enriches the international literature with
new results and findings that will broaden the field of discussion on the car market
onto the emerging economies, especially those of Central and Eastern Europe.
The book combines the results of quantitative and qualitative research. The
former is based on a big data set (ca. 40 million vehicles) and the latter on an
in-depth social survey (questionnaire interviews with more than 4,000 drivers).
The discussion of the geography of the automobile revolution is linked to other
social, economic and spatial phenomena and processes (e.g. urban sprawl or rural
marginalisation; consumer decisions and the evolution of quality of life; and the
development of individual entrepreneurship or environmental protection), as
well as to transport, tax and customs policies. The analysis of the dynamics of
change pays particular attention to the role of “critical junctures”, such as the
collapse of the communist system, EU membership, the world financial crisis
(2007–2009) and first period of COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021).
The book will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners dealing
with transport research, geography of transportation, spatial economy, urban
and regional planning and sustainability studies, as well as car hobbyists.
Bartłomiej Kołsut is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic
Geography, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland).
Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz is Professor of Geography and former head of the
Department of Economic Geography, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
(Poland).
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The Economic Geography
of the Car Market
The Automobile Revolution
in an Emerging Economy
Edited by Bartłomiej Kołsut
and Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz
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Names: Kołsut, Bartłomiej, editor. | Stryjakiewicz, Tadeusz, editor.
Title: The economic geography of the car market : the automobile
revolution in an emerging economy / edited by Bartłomiej Kołsut,
Prof. Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,
2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022016445 (print) | LCCN 2022016446 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781032314204 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032314211 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003309659 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Automobile industry and trade—Poland—History—
20th century. | Automobile industry and trade—Poland—History—
21st century. | Automobile ownership—Poland—History—20th century. |
Automobile ownership—Poland—History—21st century.
Classification: LCC HD9710.P72 E36 2023 (print) | LCC HD9710.P72
(ebook) | DDC 338.7/629209209438—dc23/eng/20220412
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022016445
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022016446
ISBN: 978-1-032-31420-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-31421-1 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-30965-9 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003309659
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In memory of Jędrzej Gadziński, a co-initiator of
this book, and Bartosz Wojtyra, a co-author, whose
untimely deaths prevented them from seeing the results
of their research.
Funding
The book was created as part of the research grant: Spatial dimension of car
market (r)evolution in Poland, financed by the National Science Center (grant
number 2016/23/B/HS4/00710).
Contents
List of figures ix
List of tables xii
List of contributors xiii
1 Introduction 1
BARTŁOMIEJ KOŁSUT AND TADEUSZ STRYJAKIEWICZ
2 Why is Poland such an intriguing case study of the
automobile revolution in an emerging economy? 16
TADEUSZ STRYJAKIEWICZ AND BARTŁOMIEJ KOŁSUT
3 Driving gears of car ownership transformation 25
ROBERT KUDŁAK, BARTŁOMIEJ KOŁSUT AND WOJCIECH KISIAŁA
4 The market for new cars: another dimension of the
core-periphery pattern 45
WOJCIECH KISIAŁA, ROBERT KUDŁAK AND BARTŁOMIEJ KOŁSUT
5 Import of second-hand cars: evidence of individual
entrepreneurship and social networks? 72
BARTŁOMIEJ KOŁSUT, WOJCIECH KISIAŁA AND ROBERT KUDŁAK
6 Car use and alternative mobility solutions as a reflection of
urban sprawl and marginalisation of rural areas 96
WOJCIECH DYBA AND BARTOSZ DOSZCZECZKO
7 Hybrid and electric cars: rare novelty for elites or a future
ubiquitous good? 127
WOJCIECH DYBA
viii Contents
8 How the automobile revolution affects the natural environment? 159
BARTOSZ WOJTYRA AND ROBERT KUDŁAK
9 Conclusions, policy recommendations and future challenges
in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic 177
BARTŁOMIEJ KOŁSUT AND TADEUSZ STRYJAKIEWICZ
Index 189
Figures
1.1 Main aspects of the car market analysed in the book
and their interrelations 3
1.2 Model of impact of determinants accounting for shifts on the
car market in various spatial scales 5
1.3 Functional types of areas and locations of case studies 9
1.4 Locations of case studies against the present regional division
of Poland 10
1.5 Spatial structure of built-up areas in districts – case studies 11
3.1 Changes in the car ownership rates in Poland against
selected countries 27
3.2 Changes in the car ownership rate (number of cars per 1,000
inhabitants) in Poland in 1989–2019 32
3.3 Spatial structure of car ownership rate (number of cars per
1,000 inhabitants) in Poland, 2004 34
3.4 Spatial structure of car ownership rate (number of cars per
1,000 inhabitants) in Poland, 2019 35
3.5 Car ownership rate (number of cars per 1,000 inhabitants) in
various types of functional areas in Poland, 2004–2019 36
3.6 Global spatial autocorrelation – Moran’s I statistic value 38
3.7 Visualisation of local Moran’s statistics – clusters, outliers and
areas without statistically significant local spatial autocorrelation 38
4.1 Number of new passenger cars registered in Poland, 1989–2019 48
4.2 Spatial structure of the number of new cars (per 1,000
inhabitants), 2004 and 2019 53
4.3 Number of new cars (per 1,000 inhabitants) by functional
type, 2004–2019 55
4.4 Spatial structure of percentage change in market shares,
2004–2019 56
4.5 Changes in spatial inequality of demand for new cars,
2004–2019: Gini index and Lorenz curve 57
4.6 Global spatial autocorrelation – change in Moran’s I, 2004–2019 58