Acta Scientiarum Polonorum

The paper addresses the issues of railway trip modelling in conditions of restricted access to railway data,
and especially, the results of surveys among railway passengers and databases from railway systems. It
presents the gathered experience associated with the development of a passenger railway transport model
in the research project “Principles of forecasting road traffic, taking into account other means of transport”,
implemented within the project Rozwój Innowacji Drogowych (Road Innovation Development), organized
by the National Centre for Research and Development and the General Directorate for National Roads and
Motorways. The article also presents a proposed methodology for developing a railway trip generation and
distribution model based on limited variables describing transport zones (and stations) and the available
statistical data on the number of trips, transport tasks and the average trip distance divided into three railway
market segments: regional, interregional and interagglomeration transport. It also discusses the results of applying
the developed model, including the obtained railway transport structures for transport types, and the
model calibration results.