Scientific and Technical Journals of the Association of Engineers and Technicians of Communication of the Republic of Poland, Branch in Krakow.

Series: Conference Materials The journal has been published since 2002 as a continuation of the title Scientific and Technical Journals of the Association of Communication Engineers and Technicians in Krakow published since 1994

ISSN number 1231-9155

Editor in Chief
dr inż.]olanta Żurowska (SITK RP Oddział w Krakowie) jmzur@pk.edu.pl

Editorial secretary
mgr inż. Danuta Schwertner (Politechnika Krakowska) danuta.schwertner@sitkrp.org.pl

Scientific and Program Board

• Prof. PK, dr hab. inż. Lidia Żakowska – przewodnicząca (Politechnika Krakowska)
• Prof. Andrea Benedetto (UniRomaTre, Włochy)
• Dr Christine Chaloupka (FACTUM, Austria)
• Assoc. Prof. dr Olja Čokorilo (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
• Dr inż. Andrzej Gołaszewski (niezależny konsultatnt)
• Mgr inż.Andrzej Kollbek (GDDKiA Oddział w Krakowie)
• M.Sc.Eng Yvette Ramos (Swiss Engineering, Szwajcaria)
• Prof. Ralf Risser (FACTUM, Austria)
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Stanisław Krawiec (Politechnika Śląska)
• Assoc. Prof. dr Karel Schmeidler (Brno University of Technology, Czechy)
• Prof. David Shinar (Ben Gurion University, Izrael)
• Mgr inż. Mariusz Szałkowski (MPK, Kraków)
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Antoni Szydło (Politechnika Wrocławska)
• Prof. Andrew P Tarko (Purdue University, USA)
• Dr inż. Andrzej Żurkowski (Instytut Kolejnictwa)

Thematic Editors

• prof. dr hab. inż. Wiesław Starowicz (Politechnika Krakowska – transport miejski)
• prof. PK dr hab. inż. Włodzimierz Czyczuła (Politechnika Krakowska – transport kolejowy)
• prof. PK dr hab. inż. Janusz Chodur (Politechnika Krakowska – transport drogowy)
• dr inż. Aleksandra Ciastoń-Ciulkin (Politechnika Krakowska – problemy mobilności)

Language Editor
mgr Agata Mierzyńska (Urząd Miasta Krakowa)

Summaries in English
dr inż. Zofia Bryniarska (Politechnika Krakowska)

Editor’s address
ul. Siostrzana 11, 30-804 Kraków
tel./fax 1265893 74

Publisher: Association of Engineers and Technicians of Communication of the Republic of Poland Branch in Krakow ul. Siostrzana 11, 30-804 Krakow

Statement on the original version of the journal: The main version of the journal is the paper version.

The full versions of the articles are available electronically on the website: http://www.sitk.org.pl/zeszyty-naukowo-techniczne/

Article indexing databases

Baza BAZTECH – http://baztech.icm.edu.pl/
Baza Index Copernicus – http//indexcopernicus.com/

Additional information

• Authors do not receive royalties for printed articles. The editors are not responsible for the content and form of announcements and advertisements.

PUBLICATION REVIEW PROCEDURE

1. Each publication sent to the Editorial Office by e-mail or post is subject to the review procedure (two independent reviewers from outside the unit employing the Author) and linguistic evaluation (language editor). Reviewers are appointed by the Editor-in-Chief after consulting the subject editors.
2. If advanced statistical methods are used in the publication, the statistical editor also evaluates the publication.
3. In the case of texts written in a foreign language, at least one of the reviewers will be affiliated with a foreign institution other than the nationality of the author of the work.
4. In the selection of reviewers, a model is used in which the author and reviewers do not know each other’s identities („double-blind review proces”).
5. In special cases of inability to comply with the above rule (narrow subject matter of the article, lack of a large number of potential reviewers), the reviewer from the same unit will sign a declaration of no conflict of interest. A conflict of interest will be considered between the reviewer and the author:
   • direct personal relationships (kinship, legal relationships, conflict),
   • relationships of professional subordination,
   • direct scientific cooperation in the last two years preceding the preparation of the review.
6. The review is in writing and ends with an unequivocal conclusion as to the acceptance of the article for publication without changes, the acceptance of the article for publication after taking into account the comments contained in the review or its rejection.
7. Zasady kwalifikowania publikacji do druku w wyniku recenzji:
   • originality of the publication in the proposed method of solving the problem, in the use of new theoretical approaches to the problem or in presenting an interesting synthetic view of a certain field of research,
   • terminological correctness used in the publication,
   • stylistic and linguistic correctness of the publication,
   • accurate and sufficient selection of literature,
   • proper selection of illustrative material.
8. The names of reviewers of individual publications will not be disclosed in subsequent issues of the journal; the list of reviewers will be made public once a year.

GHOSTWRITING

The phenomenon of ghostwriting occurs when someone has made a significant contribution to the publication without disclosing their participation as one of the authors or without mentioning their role in the acknowledgments in the publication.

The guest authorship (honorary authorship) phenomenon occurs when the author’s participation is negligible or did not take place at all, and yet he is the author or co-author of the publication.

In order to counteract cases of ghostwriting and guest authorship, the Editorial Office of the Scientific and Technical Journals of the Association of Communication Engineers and Technicians, Branch in Krakow, implements the following solutions:

1. The editors require the authors of the publication to disclose the contribution of individual authors to the creation of the publication (including their affiliation and contribution, i.e. information about who is the author of the concept, assumptions, methods, protocol, etc. used in the preparation of the publication), with the main responsibility of the author submitting the study.
2. Editorial office, starting from the issue 1/2012, explains in the Information for Authors that ghostwriting and guest authorship are a manifestation of scientific misconduct, and any detected cases will be unmasked, including notifying the relevant entities (institutions employing authors, scientific societies, associations of scientific editors, etc.).
3. The editors require the authors to provide information on the sources of financing the publication, the contribution of scientific and research institutions, associations and other entities (“financial disclosure”).
4. The editors document all manifestations of scientific misconduct, especially violations and violations of the rules of ethics in science.

PREPARATION OF TEXTS FOR PRINTING

• The text should be written in the WORD editor, Times New Roman font, size 12 pt, single line spacing, use a single “Tab” to start a paragraph, not spaces.
• Do not use more than one space between words and do not use manual hyphenation.
• Illustrations should be sent as separate files: *.tif, *.pdf or *.jpg (resolution 300dpi), captions should be placed in appropriate places in the text.
• Please perform mathematical formulas in the “mathtype” program if possible.
• Including illustrative material should meet the requirements of copyright law (a statement should be attached to the article).
• All figures, photographs and tables should be numbered and duplicated.
• Figures, charts and tables should be prepared in black and white.
• We ask authors of articles to provide academic degrees and titles, affiliation (place of work), postal address, telephone number, e-mail addresses.
• If there is more than one author, the author’s percentage contribution to the publication should be specified in the footnote to the Polish title.
• The full text should not exceed 16 pages including tables, photos and figures.
• At the end of the article, please include a summary of the article and a few keywords (minimum three) and translations of the article title, abstract and keywords into English.
• Articles cannot contain commercial features and elements.
• Files can be packed using RAR or ZIP programs
• Please deliver the text as a file on CD or by e-mail.

MANUSCRIPTS PROCESSING TIME:

• The average time for an initial manuscript review is 10 days.
• The average time for a manuscript review is 35 days.
• The average time in which an article is published is 60 days.