scholarly journals Transport in times of an epidemic: public transport measures in the Czech Republic and its regions

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Martin Vrána ◽  
Simona Surmařová ◽  
Petr Hlisnikovský ◽  
Jiří Dujka
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Hygiene Measures ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Almost All

Abstract In the first half of 2020, the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus became a phenomenon affecting all spheres of human life. Measures against the spread of the virus have led to restrictions in life in public spaces and have also affected the transport sector. These impacts consisted of two types - firstly, the number of connections was reduced due to a drop in transport demand, and secondly, it was necessary to comply with hygiene measures on the part of carriers and passengers. The impacts of these measures could be monitored at all spatial levels, from global to local. This paper deals with the course of the so-called first wave of the pandemic in the Czech Republic in relation to public transport and its organization. The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of these measures in relation to general government regulations and their subsequent implementation at the national, regional (county) and local (selected large cities) level. Furthermore, the paper uses three case studies to show what changes long-distance domestic transport has undergone on selected routes. There was a significant reduction in the number of long-distance connections, some lines were not operated at all, and of course, all cross-border connections were canceled. The paper covers the period from the turn of February and March 2020, when the measures began to take effect, to the end of May 2020, when almost all the adopted measures were gradually relaxed. The paper concludes with a summary of the basic features of the organization of transport during the validity of the special measures, as well as areas where significant changes took place and whose consequences may persist after the pandemic subsides.

scholarly journals Implementation of BIM in public transport infrastructure works in the Czech Republic with respect to the FIDIC standards

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Fazekas ◽  
Ludvík Vébr ◽  
Jan Valentin ◽  
Petr Pánek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Public Projects ◽  
Construction Market ◽  
Levels Of Detail ◽  
Different Levels

The paper describes the situation in BIM implementation in public projects in the transport sector within global powers and the Czech Republic, emphasising the specificities of the construction market and legislation base in the Czech Republic. The specialised part presents the proposed methodology of BIM implementation in road construction, and demonstrates the different levels of detail and information using a BIM model. Last but not least, there is a risk analysis and the risks identified are briefly introduced.

Activity of modern right-wing radical parties in the Czech Republic

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-173
Author(s):  
Tetiana Fedorchak
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Political Radicalism

The author investigates political radicalism in the Czech Republic, a rather heterogeneous current considering the structure of participants: from political parties to the extremist organizations. The peculiarity of the Czech party system is the existence, along with typical radical parties, of other non-radical parties whose representatives support xenophobic, nationalist and anti-Islamic statements. This is primarily the Civil Democratic Party, known for its critical attitude towards European integration, and the Communist party of the Czech Republic and Moravia, which opposes Czech membership in NATO and the EU. Among the Czech politicians, who are close to radical views, analysts include the well-known for its anti-Islamic position of the Czech President M. Zeman and the leader of the movement ANO, billionaire A. Babich. Voters vote for them not because their economic or social programs are particularly attractive to the electorate, but because of dissatisfaction with the economic situation in the state. Almost all right populist parties oppose European integration, interpreting it as an anti-national project run by an elite distorted by a deficit of democracy and corruption. Keywords: Czech Republic, right-wing radical political parties, European integration, nationalism.

scholarly journals Problems of Disabled Persons in Public Transport in the Czech Republic in the Light of Results of Research Conducted in Poland.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Izabela Bergel ◽  
Elżbieta Marciszewska ◽  
Jaroslav Matuska ◽  
Vera Zahorova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Reduced Mobility

In the article we describe the fundamental problems of disabled persons in public transport in the light of results of research conducted in the Czech Republic. This article has arisen in framework of grant nr 11420036 “Rights of Passenger with Reduced Mobility in V4 Countries” supported by International Visegrad Fund, 2014-2015. This article correspond to the previous text in Przegląd Komunikacyjny nr **describing fundamental problems of PRM in Poland.

scholarly journals Reurbanisation in Postsocialist Europe – A Comparative View of Eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic

1970 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annegret Haase ◽  
Manuel Wolff ◽  
Petra Špačková ◽  
Adam Radzimski
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Inner City ◽  
National Scale ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Eastern Germany ◽  
East German ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
The Uk ◽  
German Cities

Since the 1990s, reurbanisation has become an increasingly frequent trajectory for urban development. Many formerly shrinking cities have been able to stabilise their population or even see new growth. Especially prominent in regions like Germany and the UK, but also observed across the whole continent, a lively debate on reurbanisation has developed as a reality of today’s, and a potential trajectory for tomorrow’s, cities in Europe.Postsocialist Europe has not so far been central in the reurbanisation debate, either empirically or theoretically. Subsequently, the postsocialist experience is missing in the discourse and the existing body of evidence. There is, however, some evidence that Czech and Polish cities are also seeing signs of new inner-city growth and a trend towards core city stabilisation.Against this background, the paper scrutinises the issues of reurbanisation and new growth after the shrinking of postsocialist cities. The paper uses the approach of a contrastive comparison between cities in eastern Germany, where reurbanisation has developed as the predominant trajectory for many large cities, and for cities in Poland and the Czech Republic, where this trend is considerably less prominent. It analyses the development of reurbanisation in these cities and their urban regions over the last few decades, its characteristics and the determinants triggering or impeding it. The paper includes data on a national scale as well as from relevant case studies of cities and their urban regions.It argues, among other things, that there is no “postsocialist model” with regard to influencing factors for reurbanisation. Eastern Germany, due to its specific postsocialist situation and transformation trajectory, can be viewed as an “outlier” or “hybrid” which exhibits characteristics typical of postsocialist and western welfare contexts and which is seeing especially dynamic reurbanisation after a phase of extreme shrinkage. Although there are clear signs of inner-city reurbanisation in Polish and Czech cities as well, it seems relatively unlikely that this process will reach the same high levels as in East German cities within the coming years. * This article belongs to a special issue on reurbanisation.

Iron household items with cutlers’ marks from excavations in Veliky Novgorod 13th – the first half of the 15th century

2020 ◽  
pp. 175-182
Author(s):  
Daria S. Serezhnikova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Western European ◽  
Almost All ◽  
First Time ◽  
European Production

Experts in the blacksmithing of Ancient Russia have long been interested in iron household items with cutlers’ marks, such as knives and scissors. The research literature has already reviewed similar findings from Moscow, Tver, Torzhok, Pskov, Smolensk and Izborsk. In this study for the first time assembled, described and dated all iron knives and scissors with cutlers’ marks identified in the archaeological collection of Veliky Novgorod. All cutlers marks have been analyzed, and almost all have analogies in medieval Western European material. Almost all types of cutlers’ marks that are represented on Novgorod items are found on knives, and sometimes on swords or falchions found on the territory of Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and England. There are similar cutlers’ marks on the territory of Ancient Russia, but in much smaller numbers. All items marked with the cutlers’ marks are products of Western European production, the old Russian blacksmiths did not practice branding their products. Most items with cutlers’ marks were brought to Novgorod from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. Individual items could get to Novgorod and from England through Hanseatic merchants. Items with cutlers’ marks found during excavations in Veliky Novgorod date back to the 13th – first half of 15th centuries.

scholarly journals Fuzzy Estimate of the Development of Passenger Cars Production in the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Simona Hašková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Fuzzy Model ◽  
Passenger Cars ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Fuzzy Estimate ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Target Output

The global outbreak of the COVID-19 and the measures taken, disrupted fundamentally economies around the world. Almost all sectors were affected. The experts have long emphasised the Czech economy’s dependence on the automotive industry. Car producers and companies linked to them have been loaded by severe difficulties after the pandemic outbreak. The article shows one of the constructive ways how to forecast a change in the passenger cars production in the Czech Republic in 2020. Metodologically we lean on a procedure of the fuzzy approach. The prediction itself cannot be derived from the series of historical data of the variables that are related to the target output variable as shown in the fuzzy prediction of GDP for 2018 by this author. Due to the extreme situation caused by pandemic outbreak, the role of expert predictions come intensively into play with their outcomes becoming the set of input data to the fuzzy model. The result of the fuzzy forcast of a change in the cars production in CZ for 2020 shows a greater drop than the official statistical model claims.

scholarly journals Possible changes in transport conception of international and long-distance railway connections relating the construction of new high-speed railway lines in the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Pavel Purkart ◽  
David Vodák ◽  
Tomáš Javořík ◽  
Martin Jacura
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
High Speed ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Network Construction ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Current Lines

The aim of this article is to deal with the issue of high-speed railway lines (HSL) in the Czech Republic in response to the Fast connections conception ("Rychlá spojení" in Czech, abbreviation "RS"). Currently the RS1, RS2 and RS4 projects are the most watched during the preparation of the HSL network construction. The authors would like to focus on this issue from the wider point of view and to assess possible impact on the current lines of long-distance trains, the location of graphical timetable nodes and the way of the transport service on the area of the state.

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