scholarly journals The Impact of the COVID-19 Movement Restrictions on the Road Traffic in the Czech Republic during the State of Emergency

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Milan Simunek ◽  
Zdenek Smutny ◽  
Michal Dolezel
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
The State ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Traffic Speed ◽  
On The Road

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has impacted numerous areas of people’s work and free-time activities. This article aims to present the main impacts of the COVID-19 movement restrictions on the road traffic in the Czech Republic, measured during the first epidemic wave, i.e., from 12 March to 17 May 2020. The state of emergency was imposed by the Czech government as a de jure measure for coping with the perceived crisis, although the measure eventually resulted only in a quite liberal de facto form of stay-at-home instruction. Unique country-scale traffic data of the first six months of 2020 from 37,002 km of roads, constituting 66% of all roads in the Czech Republic, were collected and analyzed. For the prediction of the prepandemic traffic conditions and their comparison with the measured values in the period of the state of emergency, a long-term traffic speed prediction ensemble model consisting of case-based reasoning, linear regression, and fallback submodels was used. The authors found out that the COVID-19 movement restrictions had a significant impact on the country-wide traffic. Traffic density was reduced considerably in the first three weeks, and the weekly average traffic speed in all road types increased by up to 21%, expectedly due to less crowded roads. The exception was motorways, where a different trend in traffic was found. In sum, during the first three weeks of the state of emergency, people followed government regulations and restrictions and changed their travel behavior accordingly. However, following this period, the traffic gradually returned to the prepandemic state. This occurred three weeks before the state of emergency was terminated. From a behavioral perspective, this article briefly discusses the possible causes of such discrepancies between de jure and de facto pandemic measures, i.e., the governmental communication strategy related to loosening of movement restrictions, media reality, and certain culture-related traits.

PREVENTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSES IN THE FIELD OF ROAD TRAFFIC BY THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS BODIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
А.Р. Исмагилова
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
The State ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
The Road ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
On The Road

В статье раскрываются полномочия сотрудников подразделений пропаганды Государственной инспекции безопасности дорожного движения в целях профилактики дорожно-транспортных происшествий и травматизма на дороге. The article reveals the powers of the employees of the propaganda units of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate in order to prevent road accidents and injuries on the road.

scholarly journals WORKS ON BRIDGE REINFORCEMENT ON THE ROAD N2

2019 ◽  
pp. 631-635
Author(s):  
Naser Morina
Keyword(s):  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Load Capacity ◽  
The State ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
The Road ◽  
Current State ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Near Future

The overall objectives of the project are identification and description of repair works and reinforced selected bridges on N2 road to meet the required level of security and services for international heavy road traffic. This is in line with the Eurocodes design criteria. Optimum repair methods and reinforcements are required taking into account the whole set of bridges. If possible, the total amount of repair works and reinforcements will be described as a set of additive works in such a way that parts of works can be selected in the near future. These works should be selected depending on the priority aspects of the load capacity, the safety of repair works and reinforcement are defined from the transition of the current state of the bridges to the requirements established in the Euro codes. The state of the bridge is evaluated with regard to the state of the structural elements in combination with the assessment of the carrying capacity of the bridge.

scholarly journals HEIGHT AND WIDTH PARAMETERS FOR ENSURING PASSAGE OF EXCESSIVE LOADS ON ROADS

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Petrů ◽  
Vladislav Křivda
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

<p>The article deals with the problem of passage of excessive transports on the roads and ensuring the necessary height and width parameters for this transport in the Czech Republic. Currently is lack of regulations for the design of communications for transit of excessive and oversized cargo in the Czech Republic. On the basis of these aspects the research in this area was carried out and the parameters were set to ensure the passage of excessive loads on the road. The article describes the issue of transportation in the Czech Republic, created database of transports with its resulting statistical analysis. It also describes the procedure for determining the resulting parameters, which should serve as a basis for the legislation and technical conditions.</p>

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Central and Eastern Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Guasti
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a new and unparalleled stress-test for the already disrupted liberal-representative, democracies. The challenges cluster around three democratic disfigurations: technocracy, populism, and plebiscitarianism—each have the potential to contribute to democratic decay. Still, they can also trigger pushback against illiberalism mobilizing citizens in defense of democracy, toward democratic resilience. This article looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic affects democratic decay and democratic resilience in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It finds varied responses to the COVID-19 crisis by the CEE populist leaders and identifies two patterns: the rise of autocracy and democratic resilience. First, in Hungary and Poland, the populist leaders instrumentalized the state of emergency to increase executive aggrandizement. Second, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, democracy proved resilient. The COVID-19 pandemic alone is not fostering the rise of authoritarianism. However, it does accentuate existing democratic disfigurations.

scholarly journals The state’s responsibility towards entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic for the measures adopted in relation to the epidemic of coronavirus

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 01037
Author(s):  
Stanislav Bílek ◽  
Zdeněk Caha ◽  
Vendula Velková
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Casual Relation ◽  
The Right

This paper briefly analyses the legislation of the state’s liability for the measures adopted in relation to the epidemic of coronavirus in the period of the state of emergency, it especially deals with the state’s liability for damage accrued upon entrepreneurs in a casual relation to the restriction of the right to engage in enterprise. The aim of the paper is to carry out a legal analysis of liability for damage according to the Crisis Act on one hand, and of liability for damage caused by the terminated measures of the state according to the Act referring to the protection of public health, on the other hand. The paper provides a practical guideline for claiming damages and draws attention to the limits of such claims.

scholarly journals Use of Video-Apparatus during Monitoring of Conflict Situations in Road Traffic on Roundabout in the Czech Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Krivda
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Video Analysis ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Analysis Application

The wrong behavior of the road traffic participants is a permanently discussed issue in many countries with advanced road transport. Such behavior doesn’t always result in traffic accident, but only in restriction or danger of the culprit or other participants. For monitoring the behavior problems we can for example use the video-analysis of the conflict situations. The methodology of the conflict situations monitoring with the video-apparatus application is described in the paper presented. There are also results of the conflict situations analysis on the selected roundabouts in the Czech Republic. The paper refers to suitability of the conflict situations video-analysis application not only for monitoring the wrong behavior of drivers and other participants of road traffic, but also for monitoring the inappropriately designed building elements (this hypothesis is confirmed by results of research, which are shown this article).

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