Sustainability of the Trans-European Transport Networks Land Infrastructure to Address Large-Scale Disasters: A Case Study in the Czech Republic

David Rehak (), Martin Vlkovsky, Pavel Manas, Jiri Apeltauer, Tomas Apeltauer and Martin Hromada
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David Rehak: Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, 700 30 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Martin Vlkovsky: Faculty of Military Leadership, University of Defence, 662 10 Brno, Czech Republic
Pavel Manas: Faculty of Military Technology, University of Defence, 662 10 Brno, Czech Republic
Jiri Apeltauer: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Tomas Apeltauer: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Martin Hromada: Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, 760 05 Zlín, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 6, 1-23

Abstract: In recent years, the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development of transport infrastructure have been examined mainly from an economic, ecological, and social perspective. However, an essential aspect of the sustainability of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) land infrastructure is also the construction and technical parameters of critical infrastructure objects. For this reason, the aim of the article is to define recommendations for the sustainability and future development of the TEN-T land infrastructure. For this purpose, the article presents the procedure for defining and modelling typical transport situations using the TEN-T land infrastructure and the procedure for identifying critical infrastructure objects of the TEN-T land infrastructure. Attention is also paid to the digitalization of critical infrastructure objects, which categorizes infrastructure according to its suitability for excessive and oversized transport using map data. The main output of the article are recommendations for the sustainability and future development of the TEN-T land infrastructure. These recommendations are based on the systematic development of TEN-T in four basic layers, namely legislative, capatitive, construction-technical, and technological. These recommendations are intended primarily for the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic and the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic, but also for transport infrastructure operators, i.e., Road and Motorway Directorate and Railway Infrastructure Administration.

Keywords: TEN-T; land transport infrastructure; sustainability; large-scale disasters; Czech Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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