Poznań Metropolitan Railway—Development Opportunities Based on Comparative Analysis

The agglomeration railway networks form the backbone of modern urban transport systems, providing safe and reliable access from home to work or school for thousands of residents of agglomeration districts. This article examines the possibilities and directions of development for the agglomeration railway of the city of Poznań, providing a comparative analysis of this system with the networks of the cities of Szczecin and Gdańsk. Each rail system was described and presented in terms of its most important features. The collected data were then collected in tabular form and based on them, a comparison was made using two methods: AHP and COPRAS. Both methods, although with different strengths, indicated the unquestionable advantage of the agglomeration railway in Gdańsk for the adopted assumptions. The Poznań network obtained the weakest result in light of the assumptions. The analysis showed aspects of passenger transport, the improvement of which is crucial for the development of public transport in Poznań, e.g., too low frequency of trains, the need to increase passengers’ awareness of the possibilities of using rail transport, or the need to create stops ensuring a smooth possibility of changing to another means of transport.