Research topics:

• socio-economic geography;
• transport geography;
• infrastructural and operational aspects of rail transport;
• political frontiers and their impact on international transport networks;
• time-space compression in terms of transport;
• historical geography of transport;
• application of GIS tools for socio-economic geography;
• railway cartography.

Books and papers in English:

1. Kowalczyk K., 2024, Off the Rails: The Perils of the Railroad, [in:] W. Janicki (ed.), Fear/Less: Why Your Lifelong Fears Are Probably Groundless, Armin Lear Press, Estes Park (Colorado), p. 21–86. >LINK
2. Komornicki T., Wiśniewski R., Kowalczyk K., 2022, Modal split of passenger traffic: The Polish section of EU external borders, Moravian Geographical Reports, 30(2): 116–133 (DOI: 10.2478/mgr-2022-0008). >LINK
3. Kowalczyk K., 2021, Railway atlases: bibliography of the cartographic products published worldwide between 1945 and 2021, Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 24(2): 40–68
   (DOI: 10.4467/2543859XPKG.21.010.14953). >LINK
4. Jakubowski A., Komornicki T., Kowalczyk K., Miszczuk A., 2020, Poland as a hub of the Silk Road Economic Belt: is the narrative of opportunity supported by developments on the ground?, Asia-Europe Journal, 18: 367–396
   (Open Access; DOI: 10.1007/s10308-020-00571-6). >LINK
5. Komornicki T., Kowalczyk K., 2018, Role of rail in passenger border traffic between Poland and Ukraine — a dynamic approach, Barometr Regionalny, 16(2): 133–148. >LINK
6. Komornicki T., Rosik P., Stępniak M., Śleszyński P., Goliszek S., Pomianowski W., Kowalczyk K., 2018, Evaluation and monitoring of accessibility changes in Poland using the MAI indicator, Ministry of Investment and Economic Development, Warsaw, 91 pp. >LINK
7. Rosik P., Komornicki T., Stępniak M., Śleszyński P., Goliszek S., Pomianowski W., Kowalczyk K., 2017, Evaluation of accessibility changes in Poland using the MAI indicator, Geographia Polonica, 90(3): 361–368. >LINK
8. Kowalczyk K., Rosik P., 2016, Train and bus commuting in Polish metropolitan areas: complementary or separate services?, AET Papers Repository, Association for European Transport [ISSN 2313-1853], 14 pp. >LINK
9. Rosik P., Goliszek S., Kowalczyk K., 2015, The impact of selected road projects on changes in traffic intensity, EUROPA XXI, 28: 9–32. >LINK

Books and papers in Polish with English abstracts or summaries:

1. Garbacz E., Komornicki T., Kowalczyk K., 2020, Daily accessibility among Poland’s voivodeship cities, Przegląd Geograficzny, 92(2): 247–265
   (DOI: 10.7163/PrzG.2020.2.5). >LINK
2. Kowalczyk K., 2020, Wincenty Pol and railways – geographical and historical approach, Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 23(1): 8–27
   (DOI: 10.4467/2543859XPKG.20.015.12117). >LINK
3. Rosik P., Komornicki T., Goliszek S., Śleszyński P., Szarata A., Szejgiec-Kolenda B., Pomianowski W., Kowalczyk K., 2018, Comprehensive modelling of passenger road traffic in Poland - the municipality level aspects, Geographical Studies, 267, IGiPZ PAN, Warszawa, 242 pp. >LINK
4. Kowalczyk K., 2018, Multimodal potential typology of the tail lines located in the suburbs of the biggest Polish agglomerations, Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 21(1): 17–33
   (DOI: 10.4467/2543859XPKG.18.002.9182). >LINK
5. Rosik P., Pomianowski W., Stępniak M., Goliszek S., Kowalczyk K., Guzik R., Kołoś A., Komornicki T., 2017, Multimodal public transport accessibility of Polish gminas/municipalities (MULTIMODACC), Geographical Studies, 258, IGiPZ PAN, Warszawa, 303 pp. >LINK
6. Rosik P., Kowalczyk K., 2015, Development of road and railway infrastructure in Poland versus modal shift in the years 2000-2010, Geographical Studies, 248, IGiPZ PAN, Warszawa, 215 pp. >LINK
7. Kowalczyk K., Rosik P., 2015, Track infrastructure use by passenger railway carriers in Polish inter agglomeration connections, Logistyka, 3/2015: 5350–5357. >LINK
8. Kowalczyk K., Rosik P., 2015, Changes of car and train travel costs of the inter-agglomeration traffic in years 2000–2010, [in:] Infrastruktura transportu dla rozwoju dla rozwoju regionów. Z perspektywy 10-lecia członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej, Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego – Problemy transportu i logistyki, 843(28): 125–141. >LINK

Research projects:

1. Travel time by rail as a determinant of the system of cross-border linkages of Polish metropolises – dynamic approach 1970–2020
   - project funded by the National Science Centre (NCN),
   - project No. 2020/04/X/HS4/00525
   - funding scheme: MINIATURA 4.