Integrated Transport System of the South-Moravian Region and its impact on rural development |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Claremont Road, NE1 7RU Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom;2. School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Peter Jost Enterprise Centre, Byrom Street, L3 3AF Liverpool, United Kingdom;3. Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD Nottingham, United Kingdom;1. Department of Business Studies, University of Roma Tre, Via Silvio D''Amico, 77, 00145 Rome, Italy;2. Division of Service Management and Logistics, Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg 41296, Sweden;3. CTF, Service Research Centre SAMOT, Service and Marketing Oriented Transport Research, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden;1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou #2, Nanjing 210096, China;2. Department of Geography, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S8, Ghent 9000, Belgium;3. School of Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, No. 100 Waihuan Xi Road, Guangzhou 510006, China;4. Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia;5. College of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing 210016, China |
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| Abstract: | It is generally presupposed that the infrastructure and availability of services of general interest (like schools, medical care, social services and also public transport) impact on present demographic development in rural areas, namely depopulation and aging. Such services affect the quality of life of local people and sometimes they perform a vital necessity. It is possible to say that the absence of the mentioned services should be compensated by an effective system of public transport. In other case, especially those people who are not able to use individual cars due to the age, health, legal conditions or financial situation are bequeathed on an assistance of the family or neighbors or they stay cut off and excluded. This paper is aimed at the verification of the presupposition in the case of the South-Moravian Region – NUTS 3 region occupying the south-eastern part of the Czech Republic, bordering with Austria and Slovakia. The research method lies in analysis of the frequency, travel time and fare of public transport system and its comparison with demographic development in rural areas, especially in the peripheral ones. The results are discussed in view of the system of central places in the region and present urbanization processes like suburbanization, counterurbanization and reurbanization. |
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| Keywords: | Public transport Rural areas Demographic development South-Moravian Region |
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