Evaluation of High-Standard Public Transport Centres in the Slovak Republic

• Autorzy: Marcel Horňák , Peter Struhár , Tomáš Pšenka
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Despite of increasing volumes of individual passenger transport and growing dependence of the post-socialist societies on the passenger car, public transport is still inevitable for certain communities. Its social and environmental aspects are obvious reasons why public transport remains within the scope of state and regional policies as a mixture of public and commercial services. Long-distance and international overground public transport represents a higher standard of travelling of considerably commercial nature. An important feature of this segment of the public transport is its capability to compete with individual transportation for long-distance journeys. The commercial character of the long-distance public transport should motivate operators to run territorially effective links covering adequately populated communites and regions with high demand for this segment of public transport services. This study deals with several territorial aspects of the network of long distance and international bus and train links of public transport in the Slovak Republic. The network of communities having direct access to the high-standard modes of public transport has been identified, revealing some of their spatial patterns and focusing on categorization of urban settlements by selected parameters of high-standard public transport services. The relationship with the population size of the urban settlements is assessed in the study, too. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Public transport; Passenger transport

PL

Transport publiczny; Transport pasażerski

• Czasopismo: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Rocznik: 2015
• Numer: No. 30
• Strony: 59--70

Twórcy

autor

Marcel Horňák

• Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

autor

Peter Struhár

• Railways of the Slovak Republic

autor

Tomáš Pšenka

• Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

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DOI

10.1515/bog-2015-0035