Prolegomena do badań nad dziejami komunikacji miejskiej na przykładzie Tarnowa

The work contains a historical outline of the beginnings of collective public transport in Tarnów and its region. It deals with issues related to the functioning of the tram line, which existed in Tarnów from 1911 to the Second World War. This also included city buses, which with the passage of years went further and further outside the city limits. The work also focuses on what impact these means of transport had on local society. This study contains information and comparisons of the of Tarnów roads and urban infrastructure, which had a direct impact on the introduction of the first forms of public transport in this area. The next pages in the article contain the direction in which public transport developed in the Tarnów sub-region, with particular emphasis on the period from the end of World War II to the political changes that followed the fall of communism in 1990. The following extensive themes is an attempt to outline in various ways which is the important issue of public transport.