Publication details
Dopravní dostupnost funkčních městských regionů a urbanizovaných zón v České republice
| Title in English | Transportation Access of Functional Urban Areas and Urbanized Zones in the Czech Republic |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Urbanismus a územní rozvoj |
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| Field | Municipal, regional, and transport planning |
| Keywords | functional urban areas;accessibility;polycentric development |
| Description | The article summarizes the findings of the analytical part of a research project named Regional Polycentric Urban Systems in the Czech Republic. The identification of the potential for the development of polycentric systems, intending to balance the increasing gap between the capital of Prague and the rest of the country, revealed commuting and transportation access as factors of major importance. At the local level, the research has identified 150 local labour systems (LLSs) and functional urban areas (FUAs), not officially delimited in the Czech Republic, describing them in terms of mutual interaction and the quality of their transportation systems. More than 8 million inhabitants, of a total population of 10.3, live in the FUAs. Our timedistance model has showed that centres are worst accessible in major FUAs, due to their size and the transportation problems of urbanized areas. Better roads should prospectively lead to the twinning and networking of smaller FUA centres into local polycentric systems, especially so in the development axes outside urban development areas (functional urban regions) of regional centres. The centres of the current networks at the regional level can be reached within 60 minute drive. The projects of new speed roads will hardly improve the accessibility from remote peripheries, or that to major national centres like Prague and Brno, but they will do so for the less heavily attended regional centres. They will probably contribute to the functional integration of regional systems too, particularly in Moravia, a territory of no dominant supraregional centre. The research has confirmed the newly emerging phenomenon of longdistance commuting between regional centres and indicated the potential for integrated settlement systems at the regional level. |
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