Geographica 45/2 (2014)

Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultas Rerum Naturalium December 2014 Geographica 45 | 2
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Spatial aspects of transport behaviour in the Czech Republic after 1989

Stanislav Kraft, Jan Prener

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Received: October 14, 2014
Accepted: November 20, 2014

Abstract
The article focuses on the current development of transport and transport behaviour in the Czech Republic in the post-socialist context. Dramatic economic, political and social changes after 1989 related to the fall of the Iron Curtain created new principles of organisation of spatial phenomena and spatial processes. We consider the transport and transport behaviour as a complex and much complicated category. They are inextricably connected with spatial organisation of society. The article is thus aimed on the research of 1) spatial changes in the level of individual automobilisation and 2) spatial changes in the transport mode choice. We use the official statistical data to describe and analyse these aspects of transport behaviour. Special attention is paid to the current trends of car transport development and the changing position of public transport in the transport system of the Czech Republic.

Key words
spatial mobility, transport behaviour, commuting to work, automobilisation, Czech Republic