I’m a transport and social geographer. Two themes anchor my work and each has its own page. Fare-free public transport is the one I spent a decade on; the project has ended, my interest in it has not. Geographies of Recovery, which I currently lead, examines spatial access to addiction treatment provision across Poland.

Alongside them I work on shared mobility and e-scooter sharing, food waste mitigation and food-sharing platforms, and conflicts over transport policy in European cities. An overview of both projects is on the projects page. Everything I have published is listed below.

Publications

Articles

Poczta-Wajda, A., Sapa, A., Štraub, D., Garbiec, A., Franka, W., & Serchan, M. (2025). Społeczno-przestrzenne uwarunkowania postrzegania pustyń żywnościowych a rzeczywisty dostęp do zdrowej żywności – podejście interdyscyplinarne. Prace Geograficzne, (181), 159. https://doi.org/10.4467/20833113pg.25.023.22400

Štraub, D., Kubal-Czerwińska, M., & Bolicki, F. (2025). Food-sharing apps’ role in mitigating food waste: Examples from Poland and Czechia. Urban Planning, 10, Article 9528. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.9528

Štraub, D., & Hess, D. B. (2025). Re-examining fare-free public transport for greater inclusivity. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 33, Article 101558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2025.101558

Fiedeń, Ł., & Štraub, D. (2023). The importance of ticket price in public transport in non-metropolitan rural areas in Poland. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 59, 57–68. https://doi.org/10.12775/bgss-2023-0004

Štraub, D. (2023). On the road to a fare-free public transport policy: A case study of the Wrocław Anarchist Federation. Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 26(1), 40–51. https://doi.org/10.4467/2543859XPKG.23.003.17400

Štraub, D., Kębłowski, W., & Maciejewska, M. (2023). From Bełchatów to Żory: Charting Poland’s geography of fare-free public transport programmes. Journal of Transport Geography, 111, Article 103650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103650

Pistelok, P., & Štraub, D. (2022). It is time to get virtual: Limitations of shared e-scooter mobility points, case study in Cracow (Poland). Geografie, 127(1), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie2022127010001

Pistelok, P., & Štraub, D. (2021). Evaluation of the road policy in the light of Vision Zero in Jaworzno, Poland. Sustainability, 13(16), Article 8745. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168745

Štraub, D., & Gajda, A. (2020). E-scooter sharing schemes operational zones in Poland: Dataset on voivodeship capital cities. Data in Brief, 33, Article 106560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106560

Štraub, D. (2020). The effects of fare-free public transport: A lesson from Frýdek-Místek (Czechia). Sustainability, 12(21), Article 9111. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219111

Štraub, D. (2019). Riding without a ticket: Geography of free fare public transport policy in Poland. Urban Development Issues, 64(1), 17–27. https://doi.org/10.2478/udi-2019-0020

Štraub, D., & Jaroš, V. (2019). Free fare policy as a tool for sustainable development of public transport services. Human Geographies – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 13(1), 45–59. https://doi.org/10.5719/hgeo.2019.131.3

Chapters

Štraub, D., & Mróz, K. (2023). Transport bezpłatny i na żądanie jako alternatywne systemy kształtowania oferty przewozów pasażerskich. In P. Pistelok (Ed.), Transport i mobilność miejska. Obserwatorium Polityki Miejskiej, Instytut Rozwoju Miast i Regionów. https://doi.org/10.51733/opm.2023.12

Działek, J., Małochleb, K., Miśkowiec, M., Świgost-Kapocsi, A., Štraub, D., Gorczyca, K., Grochowicz, M., & Gwosdz, K. (2021). W kierunku kampusu zrównoważonego. In B. Gibała-Kapecka (Ed.), Kampus (r)ewolucja: Nowa przestrzeń (pp. 10–36). Wydawnictwo Akademii Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie.

Book reviews

Štraub, D. (2021). [Review of the book Free public transit: And why we don’t pay to ride elevators, by J. Dellheim & J. Prince, Eds., Black Rose Books, 2018, 250 pp.]. Transport Geography Papers of Polish Geographical Society, 24(1), 101–102. Read online

Reports

Mróz, K., & Štraub, D. (2024). Powiązania komunikacyjne i dostępność transportowa polskich miast w nawiązaniu do aktualnej hierarchii osadniczej. Obserwatorium Polityki Miejskiej, Instytut Rozwoju Miast i Regionów. https://doi.org/10.51733/opm.2024.26

Štraub, D., & Pistelok, P. (2022). Shared mobility: Management methods of electric scooters in cities with county rights. Institute of Urban and Regional Development. Read online