Time of Day Dependency of Public Transport Accessibility in the Czech Republic - Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation - page 98

Fig. 2 Number of Czech municipalities in 5 categories of accessibility according to time of day

can be considered as suitable hours for commuting by public transport, while 9 and
22 o clock are handicapped hours.

Commuters can travel to more than 10 municipalities from 43 % of munici-
palities if they commute at 6 of

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' clock, accordingly from 40 % of municipalities at 8

o clock, and only from 7 % for

night shift commuting. This data can be recalculated to relative comparison where
the base is the average of 6 and 8 of

' clock, from 19 % at 9 o ' clock, from 32 % at 14 o '

clock commuting. These relative results are
quite close to the results of average accessibility to all municipalities (except of
decreased value for 22 o

'

clock, see Table 2 ).
Results indicate the persistence of traditional commuting pattern in time
schedules (mainly travel to the work early in the morning), additionally also the
dependency of public transport accessibility evaluation on time dimension and

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finally a case of public transport obstacles in supporting fl flexible working hours or

part-time jobs.
Further, regional differences have been analysed.
The average rate of accessible municipalities for districts (LAU1) for time inter-
vals 4:30 5:45 and 20:30 21:45 are portrayed in Fig. 3 . The results for early morning

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interval show speci c trends, mainly relatively high level of accessibility in eastern

districts and in the three largest cities (Prague, Brno, Ostrava AB, BM, OV). Dis-

tricts with lower accessibility are clustered in the central Bohemia close to Prague
what may be caused by dominant position of Prague with lower accessibility level of
smaller municipalities in surroundings (many of them can be classi

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suburbia). The pattern of evening accessibility proves lower accessibility in almost all
districts except of the three largest cities and several districts close to borders (eastern
Moravia and two isolated districts in the NW part). The geographical distribution of

ed as Prague '