Evaluation of high-standard public transport centres in the Slovak Republic

Horňák Marcel (), Struhár Peter () and Pšenka Tomáš ()
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Horňák Marcel: Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Human Geography and Demography, Mlynská dolina, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia; phone: +421 260 296 64
Struhár Peter: Railways of the Slovak Republic, General Headquarters, Department of Traffic Control and Analysis, Klemensova 8, 813 61 Bratislava, Slovakia; phone: +421 220 297 155
Pšenka Tomáš: Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Human Geography and Demography, Mlynská dolina, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia; phone: +421 260 296 380

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2015, vol. 30, issue 30, 59-70

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/bog-2015-0035

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